I have to write a paper on "representations of the apocalypse in the media" and I'd like to write about a novel. Problem is I can't think of any apocalyptic novels, so if you know any please help me

(what I'm looking for is basically something like Matrix, Independence Day, Taxi Driver, The Day After,... in literary form)

Z for Zachariah

but that is post Apocalypse

also The Road by Cormac McCarthy, but that is post too. :\

girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland as far as I remember.
Into the forest by Jean hegland.

Rocco by Sheryl Jordan.

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The Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence. It's one of the only books I haven't finished because it scared me so bad. I was only like 13 when I read it, though, in my defence.

Also The Lake at the End of the World by Caroline Macdonald might be good. But I read that in grade six, so my memory's a little rusty.