This is a response to a previous post about why there isn't more running fiction.
Review
I started reading The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker. I'm about 20% into the novel.
So far, I wouldn't consider this a running novel. The protagonist and narrator is an unhealthy anti runner. The novel is dystopian fiction as the title suggests. The setting is modern day Scotland, and the protagonists is telling the story in hindsight.
It's well written. The point of view and pacing make for a page turning read. I especially like the perspective of the protagonist. He captures a lot of the ugly philosophical aspects of manhood and fatherhood. The mentality, I suspect, that many men feel, but they won't admit.
The book is really about surviving.
I'm going to continue with the story. I'm interested.
Reading the Most Popular Running Fiction Challenge
This was book three of five on the list below.
The following books are the most rated running fiction on goodreads.com, as of 6 July 2024. Goodreads readers can vote here for the best running fiction.
- The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen (30,771 ratings) (Young Adult Fiction, female high school 400m runner)
- Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr. (15,114 ratings)
- *The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker (14,848 ratings)
- Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (7,104 ratings) (Historical Fiction, Rwandan genocide)
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe (6,686 ratings)
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by novelist Haruki Murakami (memoir, not fiction)(171,386)
- Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (not enough about running)(68,999)
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