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by Walter M. Miller Jr. · about this book

Loved A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.? If its science fiction, post-apocalyptic and classics hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Alas, Babylon, One Second After and Swan Song. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Canticle for Leibowitz: Science Fiction · Post-Apocalyptic · Classics · Nuclear Disaster · Religious Identity

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   Alas, Babylon

   Pat Frank

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Classics · War and Its Aftermath

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   One Second After

   William R. Forstchen

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Bleak · Dystopian

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   Swan Song

   Robert McCammon

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Bleak · Cold War Era

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   On the Beach

   Nevil Shute

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Classics · Bleak

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   The Long Tomorrow

   Leigh Brackett

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Religious Identity · Science Fiction · Classics

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   Level 7

   Mordecai Roshwald

   Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Classics · Bleak

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   Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

   Robert Charles Wilson

   Far Future · Post-Apocalyptic · Religious Identity · Science Fiction · Censorship

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   Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

   Aldous Huxley

   Far Future · Science Fiction · Classics · Censorship · Bleak

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9. 

   We

   Yevgeny Zamyatin

   Far Future · Science Fiction · Classics · Censorship · Bleak

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10. 

    God Emperor of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    Far Future · Religious Identity · Science Fiction · Classics · Freedom vs Control

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    Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson

    Post-Apocalyptic · Multiple Timelines · Far Future · Science Fiction · Dark

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12. 

    Farnham's Freehold

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Nuclear Disaster · Far Future · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Satire

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13. 

    Silo Saga Omnibus

    Hugh Howey

    Post-Apocalyptic · Multiple Timelines · Science Fiction · Censorship · Bleak

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14. 

    The Last Man

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Post-Apocalyptic · Far Future · Science Fiction · Classics · Bleak

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15. 

    Warday

    Whitley Strieber, James W. Kunetka

    Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Bleak · War and Its Aftermath

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    A Gift Upon the Shore

    M.K. Wren

    Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Religious Identity · Science Fiction

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    The Twelve

    Justin Cronin

    Post-Apocalyptic · Multiple Timelines · Science Fiction · Bleak · Dystopian

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18. 

    There Will Come Soft Rains

    Ray Bradbury

    Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Classics · Science Fiction

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19. 

    Anthem

    Ayn Rand

    Far Future · Science Fiction · Classics · Censorship · Bleak

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    Metro 2035

    Dmitry Glukhovsky

    Nuclear Disaster · Post-Apocalyptic · Science Fiction · Bleak · Atmospheric

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