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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMidnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · 538 pages
Fallout
Harry Turtledove · 419 pages
"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Pol
All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh McKeon · 418 pages
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster the Soviet Union begins to collapse changing forever the lives of a nine-year old child prodigy, his aunt, a leading surgeon, and a teenage boy in a rural village. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt mak
Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank · 295 pages
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
The Atomic Weight of Love
Elizabeth J. Church · 352 pages
Capturing "the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, The Atomic Weight of Love also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the womens movement opened up the world for a whole generation."--Book jacket.
Maralinga
Judy Nunn · 494 pages
Maralinga is the story of Lieutenant Daniel GArdiner, who accepts a posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of M16 and his undercover operatice Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and an anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, in
Underworld
Don DeLillo · 827 pages
Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of Th
The Sum of All Fears
Tom Clancy · 914 pages
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East -- as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play; with one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the world on the verge of nuclear disaster, Ryan must frantically seek
Fail-Safe
Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler · 285 pages
The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.
The Wives of Los Alamos
TaraShea Nesbit · 233 pages
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box add
The German Wife
Kelly Rimmer · 464 pages
The Witch's Kind
Louisa Morgan · 440 pages
Warday
Whitley Strieber, James W. Kunetka · 447 pages
Riveting account of a limited nuclear war between the US and the USSR and what came after.
Bones of Betrayal
Jefferson Bass · 356 pages
A frozen corpse found in a lake near the Oak Ridge, Tenn., nuclear research facility turns out to be that of Dr. Leonard Novak, one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. When the source of death, potent radioactive material the old man somehow ingested, poisons the local medical examiner, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton suspects a link between the present-day murder and long-forgotten
When the Wind Blows
Raymond Briggs · 46 pages
Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.
Level 7
Mordecai Roshwald · 189 pages
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a low-level military functionary. This account should make you think, and should terrify you.
The Hours Count
Jillian Cantor · 363 pages
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950. In 1947, Millie and Ed Stein and their toddler son, David, move into an apartment on the eleventh floor in Knickerbocker Village on New York's
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages
Waiting
Ha Jin · 308 pages
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold
Red Alert
Peter Bryant, Peter George · 191 pages
It was the worst of all possible worst-case scenarios in the Cold War - an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R.From that premise, Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert spins a grim tale of just how close to nuclear destruction the world can be. A dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he will make the world a better place, Air Force B