Top ten world-ending novels

Justin Cronin is the author of the trilogy: The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors. One of his ten top world-ending novels, as shared at the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog:

Children of Men, by P.D. James.

Somewhat different from the (excellent) movie—no spectacular action set pieces here—but a probing, deeply British story of a slow-motion apocalypse in which humanity loses the ability to reproduce.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Children of Men is on Anita Singh's list of five P.D. James novels you should read, Torie Bosch's top twelve list of great pandemic novels, Joel Cunningham's list of eleven scary fictional diseases,  John Mullan's list of the ten most notable New Years in literature, Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders's list of the twelve most unfaithful movie versions of science fiction and fantasy books, Ben H. Winters' list of three books to read before the end of the world, and John Sutherland's list of the five best books about the end of England.

--Marshal Zeringue