Novels of Hard Times
I just read an essay by Mark Steyn in which he discussed the London riots and mentioned Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess.
When times are strange, it is tempting either to seek escape in literature or to go the opposite direction in search of doomsday or extreme scenarios. A few books to consider:
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Children of Men by P.D. James
- Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Postman by David Brin
- The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
- The White Plague by Frank Herbert
- Malevil by Robert Merle
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- A Canticle for Lebowitz by Walter Smith
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Others?
posted by Michael Wade @ 8:33 AM
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Non-Fiction, but would Man's Search For Meaning fit? V. Frankle
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Hard hard times described.
Ooh, Canticle for Leibowitz, an old favorite! And the Postman, which made a good movie too. How about Diary of Ann Frank, or does it not qualify because it's not a novel?
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