WLT's Apocalypse Reading List
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With apocalyptic topics ranging from dystopia to nuclear disaster, this reading list compiled by WLT intern Kaitlin Hawkins also conjures ideas of end-days in all forms from poetry to prose.
1. Zombies
Robin Becker, Brains: A Zombie Memoir (HarperCollins, 2010)
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Dead Inside: Do Not Enter (Chronicle Books, 2011)
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Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (Atria Books, 2011)
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Mary Shelley, The Last Man (Dover, 2010; originally published 1826)
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Colson Whitehead, Zone One (Knopf Doubleday, 2011)
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2. Natural Disasters/Environmental
Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (Bloomsbury, 2009)
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J. G. Ballard, The Drought (Norton, 2012; originally published 1964)
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Edward Cohen, Firewater (Akashic Books, 2003)
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Keizo Hino, Isle of Dreams (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
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James Howard Kunstler, World Made By Hand (Grove Press, 2009)
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3. Nuclear Disaster
Robert Arellano, Curse the Names (Akashic, 2012)
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Jacqueline Druga-Marchetti, Dust (Writers Club Press, 2002)
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Nevil Shute, On the Beach (Bantam, 1972; originally published 1952)
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4. Dystopian
Steven Amsterdam, Things We Didn’t See Coming (Knopf Doubleday, 2010)
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Huang Fan, Zero and Other Fictions (Columbia University Press, 2012)
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Lee Konstantinou, Pop Apocalypse (HarperCollins, 2009)
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Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx (New York Review Books, 2007)
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5. Story Collections
John Joseph Adams, ed., Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Night Shade Books, 2008)
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Martin H. Greenberg, The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse (Skyhorse, 2010)
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Hunter Liquore, ed., The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe (Sword and Saga Press, 2010)
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Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2011)
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6. Poetry
Shane Book, Ceiling of Sticks (University of Nebraska Press, 2010)
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Ernesto Cardenal, Apocalypse, and Other Poems (New Directions, 1977)
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Helene Dorion, No End to the World: Selected Poems (Guernica Editions, 2004)
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Jules Supervielle, Homesick for the Earth (Bloodaxe, 2011)
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7. Miscellaneous
Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things (Penguin, 1987)
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Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland (CreateSpace, 2011)
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Ron Currie Jr., Everything Matters! (Viking, 2009)
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Richard Horne, A Is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May
Culminate in the End of the World as We Know It (HarperCollins, 2010)
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James Palumbo, Tancredi (Bloomsbury, 2011)
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Herbert Rosendorfer, The Architect of Ruins (Dedalus Books, 2011)
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