Created and curated by Verglas
There are a lot of books out there that describe what happens immediately after things go wrong for us, from books describing society after the zombie apocalypse to post-pandemic or post-war societies.
This list is meant not for books which are about the collapse event, but books about the attempts to grow something afterward.
Post-pandemic fiction (with memories to before and during)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
4 stars
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
With her shocking material and customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects readers into a less-than-brave new world, an …
Puerto Paz by Jefferey J. Reese
A modern Huckleberry Finn for adults, and literary slap in the face to Ayn Rand:
We live in an increasingly …
Book set in 2053, after USA had previously split into 2 extremist countries, 4 extremist regions, in 2024. Dystopian background story told through coming of age foreground story. Ends in semi-utopian country of Puerto Paz, formerly Cuba, which rebuilt after nuclear annihilation by Eastern U.S.
