any books about rebuilding society after an apocalypse

M-O-O-N that spells I love The Stand

Seconded, great book.

Bought that book the other day actually, so far I’m enjoying it

Im not sure how but I’ve never heard of this book, was just reading about it on Wikipedia, it sounds amazing!

plandemic*

Edit - I was being sarcastic

Man I really need to reread that book. It’s gorgeous

Station Eleven

^(By: Emily St. John Mandel | 333 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia)

Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

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This one even more so if you’re a fan of the Fallout series, it was one of the inspiring materials used when making the game.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)

^(By: Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell | 334 pages | Published: 1959 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, scifi)

In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

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100% this.

Easily my favourite book

I couldn’t agree more with the Broken Earth trilogy for this recommendation

This book is apparently very close to what COULD happen. Freaked me out for months after I read it.

Thank you. Finally someone who also recognizes how great this book(s) was/were. If you liked these please read Fever by Deon Meyer. My favorite of the genre.

Alas Babylon motivates to to keep large supplies of salt at hand; just in case.

I remember reading this in high school. Found it at a used book store not long ago and was entranced. Great book.

I read this for 1st at the beginning of the year. I kicked myself once I finished it because I had repeatedly brushed It off thinking I wouldn’t like it. I was wrong, it’s great phenomenal!!

It’s not really about rebuilding it though. The slow collapse of society is still in progress.

Yes, THIS! The apocalyptic event happens "off screen" at the beginning, unknown to the main character. The book proceeds through several generations.

Great book. I like Brin a lot.

Well, that there are plans is the central fact... but where OP says things seem to end before it happens... I wonder what would have happened in the third book? Maybe? I wouldn't put this in a 'rebuilding" list, exactly.

Part 2 (of 2):

• "Does anyone know any good 'post post apocalypse' stories?" (r/printSF; 5 August 2022)—long
• "looking for dystopian or apocalyptic fiction" (r/booksuggestions; 5 August 2022)—long
• "looking for post apocalypse/pandemic/zombies!" (r/booksuggestions; 8 August 2022)
• "Books based on post apocalyptic scenarios." (r/booksuggestions; 02:40 ET, 10 August 2022)
• "I am looking for books that deal with apocalyptic world scenarios, but not necessarily science fiction" (r/booksuggestions; 15:11 ET, 10 August 2022)
• "Books on the apocalypse (NOT post-apocalyptic)" (r/booksuggestions; 11 August 2022)
• "Post-apocalyptic/nature writing" (r/suggestmeabook; 15 August 2022)
• "Can someone recommend me a good apocalypse book?" (r/suggestmeabook; 16 August 2022)
• "I’m looking for a book describing the exploration of an overgrown post-apocalyptic world." (r/suggestmeabook; 17 August 2022)
• "Post-Apocalypse/ Soft Apocalypse" (r/booksuggestions; 18 August 2022)
• "books with an apocalyptic setting" (r/suggestmeabook; 06:09 ET, 20 August 2022)

De hamer van Lucifer

^(By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, David Brisk | 589 pages | Published: 1977 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, scifi)

De nieuwe komeet wordt voor het eerst gezien door Tim Hamner, een jonge amateur-astronoom, geen onbekende in het wereldje van de beautiful people van Los Angeles. Maar de komeet krijgt pas goed de belangstelling van pers en publiek als blijkt dat hij een koers volgt die hem wel heel dicht bij de aarde zal brengen...

Op de fatale dag wordt door stormen, vloedgolven en aardverschuivingen de beschaving totaal vernietigd. Voor de weinige overlevenden geldt nog maar één ding: blijven overleven, ten koste van... alles.

Het boek geeft een levendig en verbijsterend beeld van de mens en de samenleving, ontdaan van het vernis van moraal en beschaving, gedreven door uit ontreddering, angst en wanhoop geboren krachten...

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Zone One

^(By: Colson Whitehead | 259 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fiction, horror, zombies, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic)

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.

Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.

And then things start to go wrong.

Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril­liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.

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Well, it’s a little bit of a spoiler but I wouldn’t say Zone One is about rebuilding a society. Attempting to perhaps.

The Quiet at the End of the World

^(By: Lauren James | 352 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, young-adult, science-fiction, dystopian, ya)

How far would you go to save those you love?

Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking for artefacts from history and looking for treasure in their once-opulent mansion.

Their idyllic life is torn apart when a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity’s entire existence. Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice . . .

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