A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr. (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1959)
audiobook read by Tom Weiner (Blackstone, 2011)
Award-winning but over-hyped. A drawn-out, wasteland-without-hope, of-its-time fix-up novel exploring notions of—and interactions between—religious belief, cyclical history, information systems and nuclear apocalypse. Miller builds detailed (if bleak and self-indulgent) scenarios. All three sections come to weigh portentously upon the reader.