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It's the End of the World as We Know It
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Updated December 20, 2023
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Leave the world behind : a novel
Alam, Rumaan
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, KEVIN BACON, ETHAN HAWKE AND MAHERSHALA ALI *A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER* *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021* ...
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The power : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
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Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of...
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The new wilderness : a novel
Cook, Diane
Paper Book
'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis 'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St....
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A boy and his dog at the end of the world
Fletcher, Charlie
Paper Book
THE MOST POWERFUL STORY YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR. 'Fletcher's suspenseful, atmospheric tale imagines a near future in which our world is in ruins . . . an adventure saga punctured by a gut-punch twist' Entertainment Weekly<...
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The dispossessed; an ambiguous Utopia
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paper Book
One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES 'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love...
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The dog stars
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for: his dog, his neighbour and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his plane for short journeys. But, one day, he takes his plane over the horizon, knowing that he won't have enough...
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The stand : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated...
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Station eleven
Mandel, Emily St. John
Paper Book
One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times<...
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How high we go in the dark : a novel
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia...
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Our missing hearts : a novel
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE PANDORA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hottest book for THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, VOGUE, STYLIST, TIME MAGAZINE, EVENING STANDARD, THE I and THE IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY.
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Blindness
Saramago, Jose.
Ebook
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to...
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The book of M
Shepherd, Peng
Paper Book
A vivid, touching and original debut, following the effects of an extraordinary catastrophe on very ordinary people. In the middle of a market in India, a man's shadow disappears. As rolling twenty-four-hour news coverage tries to explain the event, more cases are discovered. The...
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Wanderers : a novel
Wendig, Chuck
Ebook
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