Tag: Post-apocalyptic fiction

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2016 Novels

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2016. The Power by Naomi Alderman (2016) What can I say about this book? I know it will be very divisive–some people will love it, some will hate it. I loved…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 29, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2016, Born a Crime, Dystopia, Emma Donoghue, Feminist fiction, Good Morning Midnight, Greener Pastures, Historical fiction, Horror, John Langan, Joshua Gaylord, Justin Cronin, Kij Johnson, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Memoir, Michael Wehunt, Naomi Alderman, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Short stories, The City of Mirrors, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The Fisherman, The Passage, The Power, The Wonder, Trevor Noah, Vampires, When We Were Animals

• Reading Journal: Beginning of April

  It’s been over a month since I’ve posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring–although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2016

  Reading

  A Head Full of Ghosts, Alexandra Sokoloff, Bad Wizard, Benjamin Percy, Far North, Horror, Horror by women, HP Lovecraft, James Maxey, John Scalzi, Kathe Koja, Literary homages, Lock In, Marcel Theroux, New fiction, NNedi Okorafor, Novellas, Paul Tremblay, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Reading, Scott Hawkins, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Cipher, The Dead Lands, The Horror at Red Hook, The Library at Mount Char, The Unseen, Victor LaValle, Who Fears Death

• Recommended Reading: Gold Fame Citrus

  This week I’m recommending Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, which is a bit of a dystopia and a bit of a post-apocalypse and a bit of magical realism and is the latest book I’ve read set in the American Southwest. In the near future, drought has rendered the Southwestern United States nearly uninhabitable. A mountain-high sea dune…

  Shannon Turlington

  February 16, 2016

  Reading

  Claire Vaye Watkins, Dystopia, Gold Fame Citrus, Magical realism, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Recommended Reading, Southwestern fiction

• Recommended Reading: Station Eleven

  This month, I’m highly recommending the  post-apocalyptic novel, Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Station Eleven does something that I hadn’t thought was possible: it offers something new and exciting in the post-apocalyptic genre. I have read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, and I was getting burned out on them. It seemed like there was nothing…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 28, 2015

  Reading

  Emily St. John Mandel, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Station Eleven, Tournament of Books