The Drought
![Apocalyptic](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/879616._SY475_.jpg)
Author: J.G. Ballard
In contrast to Ballard’s earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. After an extensive drought, rivers have turned to trickles and the earth to dust, causing the world’s populations to head toward the oceans in search of water. The drought is caused by industrial waste flushed into the ocean, which form an oxygen-permeabl….Read More
14 Books Similar to The Drought
![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/879614-120x180.jpg)
The Crystal World
The West African jungle is turning into crystal. Everywhere plants, trees and animals are changing and men are fleeing except some foolhardy types who remain to drift, dazzled, through this… Continue Reading Posted in: 1900, Contemporary British Fiction, English Fiction, Fiction In English, Metaphysical Science Fiction eBooks![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2363083.jpg)
Glory (Brides of the West #4)
The fourth book in Lori Copeland's popular historical romance series about mail-order brides. Glory, a young woman whose only relative has just died, joins up with a wagon train of… Continue Reading Posted in: Christian, Christian Fiction, Historical![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/324129._SY475_-118x180.jpg)
The Atrocity Exhibition
A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author.The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern… Continue Reading Posted in: Experimental Fiction, Literary Fiction, Neurasthenia![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/879615-115x180.jpg)
Concrete Island
A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British Fiction, Contemporary Urban Fiction, English, English Fiction, Science Fiction, Survival![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1037479.jpg)
A Light in the Window
His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. As you… Continue Reading Posted in: Christian, Christian Fiction, Fiction![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/56675-118x180.jpg)
Empire Of The Sun
Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation… Continue Reading Posted in: 1939 1945, Boys, English Fiction, Historical Chinese Fiction, Movie Tie-In Fiction, World War![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/15864129-120x180.jpg)
Crash
Southpointe High is the last place Lucy wanted to wind up her senior year of school. Right up until she stumbles into Jude Ryder, a guy whose name has become… Continue Reading Posted in: Teenagers, Wales![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/862090-120x168.jpg)
Cocaine Nights
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will SelfFive people die in an unexplained house fire in the… Continue Reading Posted in: British, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Murder![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/70261.jpg)
Millennium People
Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes.,,,As he searches for the truth behind the Heathrow bomb that killed his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham infiltrates a shadowy protest group based in… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/70256._SY475_-117x180.jpg)
High-Rise
From the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fiction In English, High Rise Apartment Buildings Social Aspects, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction, Thrillers![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/879494-118x180.jpg)
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.