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Just remembered about the Greg Mandel series from Peter F Hamilton. Not post apocalyptic, more dystopian future. Really stood out for me after cycling around Rutland water and staying at a hotel there and reading his book with Greg living in the holiday homes there and having orange groves around there due to global warming.
Lionel Shriver The Mandibles is good. Sort of economic meltdown apocalypse.
Also Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake and sequels. Plus the Handmaid's tale.
Incredible that nobody has mentioned The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, written in 1951 and one of the original post-apocalyptic novels, which has been made into at least one film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
Another of his, which I love and have re-read a few times is The Chrysalids, Wiki says some regard it as Wyndham's best novel and I would agree. It's about a new emerging world after nuclear apocalypse and the efforts of the new society to eradicate genetic impurities caused by radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. A slow burner.
The Wool trilogy is great
Nod by Adrian Barnes is also really good and a nice short read
Oryx and Crake series
Gotta agree with globalti too, there's lots of older classics, John Wyndham especially "The day of the triffids"
Not quite apocalyptic, but dystopic alternate realities, China Mievelle writes some really intersting books, "The city and the city" being one of the more dystopic.
More a vision of Hell than the Apocalypse, but everything he writes is brilliant -
[i]Damned[/i] by Chuck Palahniuk
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For impending apocalypse
[i]Joy, Pa[/i] by Steven Sherrill
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