Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban (1980)

Written entirely in a broken future dialect, this book drops you into the mind of a boy living after nuclear collapse — and forces you to earn your understanding of his world. It’s linguistic archaeology, full of dark humor and haunting wisdom. Once you tune your ear to the mutated English, it becomes one of the most human stories about myth-making and survival you’ll ever read.<br />It’s not easy, but neither is rebuilding civilization.

Rating: 4 / 5