Post Apocalypse Books

[Ignatzmonster]

Wife's an avid reader of post apocalypse stories and I wanted to get her some as a stocking stuffer but I don't know the genre that well. Any suggestions?

She's read and enjoyed:
The Road, Walking Dead, WW "Z", On the Beach, DMZ.

Did not like Alas Babylon.

[Dudley]

She sounds like a cheerful sort!

You could do worse than try her on Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles by Gerald Vizenor - a Native American take on the aftermath of apocalypse.  Very strange, very violent (and, I warn you, occasionally quite sexually perverse), but a great and very funny read nonetheless.

[Dark Jimbo]

John Wyndham did it very well in a stiff-upper-lipped 1950s way - Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids are both excellent.

[satchmo]

The Kraken Wakes is a good one too.

Chrysalids is the most post apocalypsey.

[El Spurioso]

*cough*

Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Culled-Afterblight-Chronicles-Si-Spurrier/dp/1905437013/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196280422&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Ahrum.

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[JayzusB.Christ]

Nah, wouldn't bother with The Culled, mate, it's a sack of shit.

...only joking, Si, haven't actually got round to reading it yet.

[Trout]

I'll get a slagging for it, I'm sure, but I really liked The Postman by David Brin.

Shite film, though.

- Trout

[Eldritch]

Lord of the Flies and A Canticle for Leibowitz are great, too.

[gurnard]

Just reading the Culled at the moment, enjoying it immensely.

[W. R. Logan]

Link: http://www.patrick-tilley.com/amtrakwars/index.asp" target="_blank">Amtrak Wars

[Eldritch]

Also, I'm halfway through Blindness by Jose Saramago, about a city being struck blind. While not strictly post-apocalypse it is starting to rival The Road for bleak horror.

[Pyroxian]

I am Legend
The Stand

[SamuelAWilkinson]

Lord of the Flies? Post apocalyptic?

Pull the other one, it's got murderous tribal boys on it.

[Richmond Clements]

Pyroxian got there before me:

The Stand is the daddy.

[Eldritch]

"Lord of the Flies? Post apocalyptic?

Pull the other one, it's got murderous tribal boys on it."

Set against a nuclear war.