 | The Death of Grass (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Christopher
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £3.40 A classic that has recently come back into print. A great story about a worldwide famine told from the UK perspective.
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 | Big Death by Charles Eric Maine
Buy used from: £7.99 A worldwide plague kills half of the world's population, causing widespread chaos. Published in the US as 'Survival Margin'.
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.64 Probably my favourite book. The book is relatively short but an excellent horror/sci-fi combination. The story follows the only survivor of a vampire pandemic in Los Angeles.
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 | On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £15.99 A classic following the crew of a US submarine after a nuclear war as they seek sanctuary in Australia.
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 | Blood Crazy by Simon Clark
Buy used from: £3.93 All adults become homocidal maniacs overnight, leaving children to fight for their survival.
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 | Plague Year by Jeff Carlson
Buy new: £3.54 / Used from: £0.71 A nanotechnology-based plague kills everyone spending more than a couple of hours below an altitude of 10,000 feet.
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 | Plague War by Jeff Carlson
Buy new: £3.90 / Used from: £1.69 Second book in the 'Plague Year' trilogy showing the aftermath of the nanotech plague on a larger scale.
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 | Last Ship by Brinkley
Buy new: £15.07 / Used from: £2.40 Similar to 'On The Beach' in that it features the crew of a US naval ship during and after a nuclear war, but the story is quite different.
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 | Darkness and Dawn (Dodo Press) by George Allan England
Buy new: £22.79 / Used from: £26.27 Written in 1914 and shows it. A man and woman wake up around 1000 years in the future and find a desolate New York.
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 | One by Conrad Williams
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.14 A catastrophic event burns the face of the Earth. A deep sea diver survives and crosses the UK looking for his son.
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| Warday and the Journey Onwards (Coronet Books) by Whitley Strieber
Buy used from: £0.01 Two men travel across America following a nuclear war. A fairly well known example of post-apocalpytic fiction.
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 | Nuclear Paranoia (Pocket Essentials) by Chas Newkey-Burden
Buy used from: £0.01 Not fictional, but it features a discussion of some fictional works and might be of general interest if you read the sort of thing that's on this list.
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 | By the Waters of Babylon (Tale Blazers: American Literature) by Stephen Vincent Benet
Buy new: £1.98 / Used from: £1.53 A very short children's story about a journey to a forbidden land several generations after a nuclear war.
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 | Through Darkest America (Isaac Asimov Presents) by Neal, Jr. Barrett
Buy used from: £6.43 Similar to 'By The Waters Of Babylon' but adult-oriented, and much more interesting.
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| All Fools' Day by Edmund Cooper
Solar radiation gives the majority of the population suicidal urges. Only mentally unbalanced people survive the drastic population reduction.
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 | The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Buy used from: £25.65 A story set in the near future where pollution has reached record levels, threatening the end of life on Earth.
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 | Long Voyage Back by Luke Rhinehart
Buy used from: £1.74 A group of survivors of a nuclear war try to escape the US in a yacht.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.45 A father and son travel through the US following a major disaster. Not much action but quite poetic with some nice individual scenes.
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