I’ve been reading a lot of dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction over the years and have been gathering quite the collection. I have culled these books from many places, although the list was originally swiped from: http://epicdystopia.blogspot.com/2007/11/big-list.html courtesy of filling_pages from The Straight Dope Message Board. Feel free to add any that aren’t on this list in the comments and I will update it accordingly.
If you’d like to borrow any of the books I have, just let me know.
X indicates books I have in digital format
Z indicates books I do NOT have in digital format.
Q indicates books I have in digital format…somewhere.
| x | Greybeard | Brian | Aldiss | ||||||
| z | Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? | Andrei | Amalrik | ||||||
| z | Feed | M.T. | Anderson | ||||||
| z | The End of Eternity | Isaac | Asimov | ||||||
| x | Oryx and Crake | Margaret | Atwood | ||||||
| x | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret | Atwood | ||||||
| z | In The Country of Last Things | Paul | Auster | ||||||
| z | Bear v. Shark | Chris | Bachelder | ||||||
| z | Vermilion Sands | JG | Ballard | ||||||
| z | Ashes, Ashes (Ravage) | René | Barjavel | ||||||
| x | Jennifer Government | Max | Barry | ||||||
| z | Noughts & Crosses series | Malorie | Blackman | ||||||
| z | America 2014 | Dawn | Blair | ||||||
| z | Love in The Time of The Apocalypse | Gregory | Blecha | ||||||
| z | 2666 | Roberto | Bolaño | ||||||
| z | My Melancholy Face | Heinrich | Böll | ||||||
| x | Planet of The Apes | Pierre | Boulle | ||||||
| z | Kallocain | Karin | Boye | ||||||
| z | Ariel | Steven R. | Boyett | ||||||
| x | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray | Bradbury | ||||||
| x | The Postman | David | Brin | ||||||
| z | The Last Ship | William | Brinkley | ||||||
| x | Jagged Orbit | John | Brunner | ||||||
| x | Stand on Zanzibar | John | Brunner | ||||||
| x | The Sheep Look Up | John | Brunner | ||||||
| x | The Shockwave Rider | John | Brunner | ||||||
| z | Swastika Night | Katharine | Burdekin | ||||||
| x | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony | Burgess | ||||||
| z | The Wanting Seed | Anthony | Burgess | ||||||
| z | 1985 | Anthony | Burgess | ||||||
| z | Beyond Thirty | Edgar Rice | Burroughs | ||||||
| z | Naked Lunch | William S. | Burroughs | ||||||
| z | Nova Express | William S. | Burroughs | ||||||
| x | Parable of The Sower and Parable of The Talents | Octavia | Butler | ||||||
| z | Doc and Fluff | Patrick | Califia | ||||||
| x | R.U.R. | Karel | Čapek | ||||||
| z | War with The Newts | Karel | Čapek | ||||||
| z | Plague Year | Jeff | Carlson | ||||||
| x | Obernewtyn -Books 2&3 | Isobelle | Carmody | ||||||
| z | Motherlines | Suzy | Charnas | ||||||
| z | The Conqueror’s Child | Suzy | Charnas | ||||||
| z | The Furies | Suzy | Charnas | ||||||
| z | Walk to The End of The World | Suzy | Charnas | ||||||
| z | Sweeney’s Island (also known as Cloud On Silver) | John | Christopher | ||||||
| x | The Supernaturalist | Eoin | Colfer | ||||||
| z | The Hunger Games | Suzanne | Collins | ||||||
| z | The Pesthouse | Jim | Crace | ||||||
| z | The Last Election | Pete | Davies | ||||||
| z | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | James | De Mille | ||||||
| x | The Strain | Guillermo | del Toro | ||||||
| x | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | Flow my tears, The Policeman Said, | Philip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | The Man in The High Castle | Phillip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | The Penultimate Truth | Phillip K. | Dick | ||||||
| x | Camp Concentration | Thomas M. | Disch | ||||||
| x | The Genocides | Thomas M. | Disch | ||||||
| z | Little Brother | Cory | Doctorow | ||||||
| z | The City of Ember | Jeanne | DuPrau | ||||||
| z | The People of Sparks | Jeanne | DuPraub | ||||||
| x | When Gravity Fails | George Alec | Effinger | ||||||
| x | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | Harlan | Ellison | ||||||
| z | Repent, Harlequin!” Said The Ticktockman | Harlan | Ellison | ||||||
| z | Arslan | M.J. | Engh | ||||||
| x | Dayworld | Philip José | Farmer | ||||||
| x | Dayworld Rebel | Philip José | Farmer | ||||||
| z | Prayers for The Assassin | Robert | Ferrigno | ||||||
| z | The Machine Stops | E.M. | Forster | ||||||
| x | Alas, Babylon | Pat | Frank | ||||||
| x | All Tomorrow’s Parties | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Count Zero | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Idoru | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Mona Lisa Overdrive | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Neuromancer | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Pattern Recognition | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Virtual Light | William | Gibson | ||||||
| x | Lord of The Flies | William | Golding | ||||||
| z | Running Out of Time | Margaret | Haddix | ||||||
| z | Among The Hidden | Margaret Peterson | Haddix | ||||||
| z | Extincton | Ray | Hammond | ||||||
| z | The Gone Away World | Nick | Harkaway | ||||||
| z | Fatherland | Robert | Harris | ||||||
| x | Make Room! Make Room! | Harry | Harrison | ||||||
| z | The Committed Men | M. John | Harrison | ||||||
| z | Facial Justice | L.P. | Hartley | ||||||
| x | Dark River | John Twelve | Hawks | ||||||
| x | The Traveler | John Twelve | Hawks | ||||||
| x | I Will Fear No Evil | Robert | Heinlein | ||||||
| x | If This Goes On — ” | Robert | Heinlein | ||||||
| z | White Lotus | John | Hersey | ||||||
| x | Riddley Walker | Russell | Hoban | ||||||
| z | Brown Girl in The Ring | Nalo | Hopkinson | ||||||
| x | Devil on my Back | Monica | Hughes | ||||||
| z | Invitation to The Game | Monica | Hughes | ||||||
| x | Brave New World | Aldous | Huxley | ||||||
| z | Ape and Essence | Aldous | Huxley | ||||||
| z | Brave New World Revisited | Aldous | Huxley | ||||||
| x | Single Combat | Dean | Ing | ||||||
| x | System Shock | Dean | Ing | ||||||
| x | Wild Country | Dean | Ing | ||||||
| z | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo | Ishiguro | ||||||
| z | The Lottery | Shirley | Jackson | ||||||
| z | The Children of Men | P.D. | James | ||||||
| z | Incal (and spinoffs) | Alejandro | Jodorowsky | ||||||
| z | The Glass Bees | Ernst | Junger | ||||||
| z | The Trial | Franz | Kafka | ||||||
| z | twentytwelve | Andrew | Keogh | ||||||
| z | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel | Keyes | ||||||
| x | The Stand | Stephen | King | ||||||
| x | The Long Walk | Stephen | King | ||||||
| x | The Running Man | Stephen | King | ||||||
| z | Darkness at Noon | Arthur | Koestler | ||||||
| x | The Space Merchants | Pohl and | Kornbluth | ||||||
| z | Die Andere Seite | Alfred | Kubin | ||||||
| x | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine | L’Engle | ||||||
| x | Hiero’s Journey/Unforsaken Hero | Sterling E. | Lanier | ||||||
| z | The Hex series | Rhiannon | Lassiter | ||||||
| z | Veracity | Mark | Lavorato | ||||||
| x | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. | Le Guin | ||||||
| x | The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. | Le Guin | ||||||
| x | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. | Le Guin | ||||||
| x | Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Stanislaw | Lem | ||||||
| z | Just Like Beauty | Lisa | Lerner | ||||||
| z | Memoirs of a Survivor | Doris | Lessing | ||||||
| z | The Memoirs Of A Survivor | Doris | Lessing | ||||||
| z | Gun, with Occasional Music | Jonathan | LeThem | ||||||
| z | This Perfect Day | Ira | Levin | ||||||
| x | Out of The Silent Planet | CS | Lewis | ||||||
| x | That Hideous Strength | CS | Lewis | ||||||
| z | Perelandra | CS | Lewis | ||||||
| z | It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair | Lewis | ||||||
| z | The Iron Heel | Jack | London | ||||||
| z. | Sea of Glass | Barry B. | Longyear | ||||||
| x | The Giver | Lois | Lowry | ||||||
| z | Gathering Blue | Lois | Lowry | ||||||
| z | Messenger | Lois | Lowry | ||||||
| z | The Bridge | D. Keith | Mano | ||||||
| z | Our American King | David L. | Martin | ||||||
| x | I Am Legend | Richard | Matheson | ||||||
| x | Swan Song | Robert | McCammon | ||||||
| x | The Road | Cormac | McCarthy | ||||||
| z | Small-Minded Giants | Oísin | McGann | ||||||
| z | Malevil | Robert | Merle | ||||||
| x | Iron Council | China | Miéville | ||||||
| x | Perdido Street Station | China | Miéville | ||||||
| x | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. | Miller | Jr. | |||||
| x | Paradise Lost | John | Milton | ||||||
| z | Cloud Atlas | David | Mitchell | ||||||
| z | V for Vendetta | Alan | Moore | ||||||
| x | Market Forces | Richard | Morgan | ||||||
| z | Sleepwalking | Nicola | Morgan | ||||||
| z | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World | Haruki | Murakami | ||||||
| z | Bend Sinister | Vladimir | Nabokov | ||||||
| x | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey | Niffenegger | ||||||
| x | Lucifer’s Hammer | Larry | Niven | ||||||
| z | Rammer | Larry | Niven | ||||||
| z | Shade’s Children | Garth | Nix | ||||||
| x | Logan’s Run | William F. | Nolan | and | George | Clayton | Johnson | ||
| z | Star-Man’s Son | Andre | Norton | ||||||
| z | Z for Zachariah | Robert C. | O’Brien | ||||||
| x | 1984 | George | Orwell | ||||||
| x | Animal Farm | George | Orwell | ||||||
| z | Rant | Chuck | Palahniuk | ||||||
| x | Emergence | David | Palmer | ||||||
| z | Davy | Edgar | Pangborn | ||||||
| z | Acidity | Nadeem F. | Paracha | ||||||
| z | The Last Book in The Universe | Rodman | Philbrick | ||||||
| z | The Absent City (La Ciudad Ausente) | Ricardo | Piglia | ||||||
| x | Anthem | Ayn | Rand | ||||||
| z | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn | Rand | ||||||
| z | The Chalk Giants | Keith | Roberts | ||||||
| z | The Furies | Keith | Roberts | ||||||
| z | Level 7 | Mordecai | Roshwald | ||||||
| z | The Plot Against America | Philip | Roth | ||||||
| x | Blindness | Jose | Saramago | ||||||
| z | The Shore of Women | Pamela | Sargent | ||||||
| z | Alongside Night | J. Neil | Schulman | ||||||
| z | The Book of Dave | Will | Self | ||||||
| z | The Last Man | Mary | Shelley | ||||||
| x | The Purple Cloud | M.P. | Shiel | ||||||
| z | Unwind | Neal | Shusterman | ||||||
| z | On The Beach | Nevil | Shute | ||||||
| x | The World Inside | Robert | Silverberg | ||||||
| x | Hyperion | Dan | Simmons | ||||||
| z | The Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | |||||||
| z | Smith’s Dream | C.K. | Stead | ||||||
| x | The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer | Neal | Stephenson | ||||||
| x | Earth Abides | George R. | Stewart | ||||||
| x | Dies The Fire | S.M. | Stirling | ||||||
| z | The Domination | S.M. | Stirling | ||||||
| z | Halting State | Charles | Stross | ||||||
| z | Kazohinia | Sándor | Szathmári | ||||||
| z | Battle Royale | Koushun | Takami | ||||||
| z | The Lost Thing | Shaun | Tan | ||||||
| x | The Gate to Women’s Country | Sheri S. | Tepper | ||||||
| z | Mockingbird | Walter | Tevis | ||||||
| z | Divided Kingdom | Rupert | Thomson | ||||||
| z | The Slynx | Tatyana | Tolstaya | ||||||
| x | The Rumors About Me | Yasutaka | Tsutsui | ||||||
| z | Drowning Towers | George | Turner | ||||||
| z | Paris in The 20th Century | Jules | Verne | ||||||
| z | Moscow 2042 | Vladimir | Voinovich | ||||||
| x | Harrison Bergeron | Kurt | Vonnegut | ||||||
| x | Player Piano (also known as Utopia 14) | Kurt | Vonnegut | ||||||
| z | Galapagos | Kurt | Vonnegut | ||||||
| z | Welcome to The Monkey House (short story) | Kurt | Vonnegut | ||||||
| z | Infinite Jest | David Foster | Wallace | ||||||
| q | The First Men in The Moon | H.G. | Wells | ||||||
| z | The Time Machine | H.G. | Wells | ||||||
| x | When The Sleeper Wakes | H.G. | Wells | ||||||
| q | Pretties | Scott | Westerfeld | ||||||
| q | Specials | Scott | Westerfeld | ||||||
| x | Uglies | Scott | Westerfeld | ||||||
| z | Bar Code Rebellion | Suzanne | Weyn | ||||||
| z | The Bar Code Tattoo | Suzanne | Weyn | ||||||
| z | Prison Planet | Chris | Whatley | ||||||
| z | Fail Safe | Burdick and | Wheeler | ||||||
| x | Where Late The Sweet Bird Sings | Kate | Wilhelm | ||||||
| z | The Rift | Walter Jon | Williams | ||||||
| x | Doomsday Book | Connie | Willis | ||||||
| z | Dr. Identity | D. Harlan | Wilson | ||||||
| z | Utopia X | Scott | Wilson | ||||||
| x | The Book of The New Sun/Long Sun/Short Sun | Gene | Wolf | ||||||
| z. | Limbo, (vt. Limbo 90) | Bernard | Wolfe | ||||||
| x | Ambient | Jack | Womack | ||||||
| z | Elvissey | Jack | Womack | ||||||
| z | Heathern | Jack | Womack | ||||||
| z | Terraplane | Jack | Womack | ||||||
| x | Day of The Triffids | John | Wyndham | ||||||
| x | The Chrysalids | John | Wyndham | ||||||
| z | No Blade of Grass | Samuel | Youd | ||||||
| x | We | Yevgeny | Zamyatin | ||||||
| z | Lord of Light | Roger | Zelazny | ||||||
| z | The Yawning Heights, a novel about Ibansk | Aleksandr | Zinoviev | ||||||
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