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You're no longer our neighbor. I WASH MY HANDS
Isn't this like the sixth time this has happened? The last one being when I suggested I'd put breakfast sausage in my spaghetti sauce?

Quote Originally Posted by Sawin View Post
Haha, no worries. I don't have any sort of attachment to it, just that I enjoyed the book. Now, I am not naive to the fact that's clearly the product of my not being a connoisseur of Post-Apocalyptic literature or even modestly "well read"... I guess I need to read more of the originals. Do you have any favorites or ones you'd strongly recommend?

p.s. - be sure to drink your coffee
I read a lot, because I have a lot of time as a passenger in airplanes. I say that to say that I may well be a jaded and/or pretentious snob in my literary tastes, and I won't be offended if you like something I don't, or dislike something I do.
That being said, I'll give you two recommendations that I think are very well written and reasonably realistic, with one being from the 40s and the other being more contemporary:

"Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart. An epidemic based apocalypse novel, following the days before through many decades after the event. This was written in the 40s, but holds up pretty well to a more contemporary audience.

"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel. A contemporary novel written by a woman, so there is a lot of internal monologing going on. That said, her narration of the end of the world is pretty compelling, as is her thought process behind what happens when the bullets mostly run out.

I'm guessing I have about 40 or so novels with the post-apocalypse theme running through them, crowded in with all the Dickens, Melville, and Voltaire from when I used to have an hour long train commute to work.