The Last Man vs Year Zero: Which Should You Read?

The Last Man Mary Shelley · 1826 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 452 pages · ≈ 8 h 22 m · Challenging

Mary Shelley, the author of [Frankenstein][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the…

Year Zero Jeff Long · 2002 ★★★★☆ 3.6 406 pages · ≈ 7 h 31 m · Moderate

“The two old men entered a spacious room, their wives trailing them.”

An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land -- a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, a young American field researcher and expectant father, the line between noble discovery and the plunder of…