If Don DeLillo is an acquired taste, I have yet to acquire it. This short novel--it's more of a long short story or a novella--follows r...

Like Leave the World Behind , A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet is another novel that comes up for those seeking quiet apocalyptic fict...

In my quest for comp titles, The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder came up. The premise of this relatively short novel is killer: 22 midd...

Not every apocalypse needs to be a ridiculous, large, destructive spectacle. That's one of the things I learned while reading Leave the ...

I made a resolution this year to read more books. Part of this was because reading improves your writing. Part of it was because I found mys...