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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Apocalypse Now! 2018 Reading Challenge

Apocalypse Now! 2018 Reading Challenge

Don't you ever just want to watch the world burn? Well, so do I! Let's have a nuclear campfire and read a bunch of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction together! Got your respirators on?

The Rules:

* Any genre of fiction is acceptable, so long as it focuses on the end of the world as we know it.

* Re-reads are okay, but you must have read the book more than five years ago or it must be a new edition.

* Dystopias only count if they follow the end of the world. (So Oryx and Crake counts, but The Handmaid's Tale does not because only the United States went to hell; the rest of the world is doing just fine.)

* Video game and RPG tie ins are absolutely acceptable as long as the Apocalypse is the focus (so Dark Sun novels are perfect, but Mechwarrior is not; Fallout, Wasteland and The Last of Us are perfect, but Mass Effect is not)

* People found this a little much at the higher levels last year, so this year I've dialed it back a bit.

See you in the wastelands; if we survive!

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2018 – December 2018

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Shaun of the Dead = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Stuart Redman/Frannie Goldsmith = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Katniss Everdeen/Rick Grimes = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Mad Max/Furiosa = 12 books + 6 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

Arrenby

Arrenby

The Beauty
Black Helicopters
The Book of M
The Cabin at the End of the World
Exodus From the Long Sun
The Power
crooow

crooow

Adulthood Rites
Dawn
The Death of Grass
Phoenix Without Ashes
The Power
Sea of Rust
6
5
4
3
2
1
dalex

dalex

The Book of M
Clade
The Country of Ice Cream Star
Defender
The Last One
The Mad Scientist's Daughter
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Bannerless
The Beauty
Black Helicopters
Black Wave
Blood's a Rover
The Cabin at the End of the World
Distress
The Man in the Tree
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
The Power
Sea of Rust
GiantPanda

GiantPanda

The Stone Sky
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Annihilation
Authority
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Death Cure
Doomsday Book
The God Engines
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
Slaughterhouse-Five
This Immortal
The Wanderer
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
morpheus

morpheus

Adulthood Rites
The Chrysalids
The Fifth Season
Sable Aradia

Sable Aradia

Anvil of Stars
Blood Red Road
Children of Time
The Dark Tower
Dr. Bloodmoney:  or, How We Got Along After the Bomb
The Forge of God
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
Parable of the Sower
The Road
Song of Susannah
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
TheBridge

TheBridge

Alas, Babylon
The Death of Grass
On the Beach
thereddeath

thereddeath

3
2
1
Thomcat

Thomcat

The Lathe of Heaven
The Peace War
Stand on Zanzibar
Weesam

Weesam

Devil's Wake
Domino Falls
The End of the World Running Club
False Dawn
The Gemini Effect
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
A Gift Upon the Shore
Sip
This Dark Earth
Tomorrow's Kin
Torment
Z for Zachariah