Books by author: Cormac McCarthy

The Road is a bleak post-apocalyptic road-trip novel. McCarthy's narrator is a father who, with his son, is trekking across an American wasteland looking for signs of hope. Along the way, they pillage root cellars on abandoned farms, looking for anything edible, and they try to stay away from bandits on the road.

My book club chose this because it won the Pulitzer, but none of us ended up liking it. I hated it a lot less than most of the members, but it was still a tough read. In the post-apocalyptic genre, I liked Fiskadoro better, and Riddley Walker best of all.