Best/smartest post-apocalyptic literature? No zombie shit pls

>>8523555
The Road. It basically just /threaded the genre

>>8523555
Lord of the Flies.

>>8523555
Does it need to be literal post-apocalypse? Like, the world ended or whatever? In that case, >>8523560 is probably best.

>>8523555
The Scarlet Plague is decent.

In the hypothetical case that the answer be negative.

What do you recommend?

>>8523720

This shit is for you: >>8523632

>>8523555

The Passage was good. Did both vampirism and post-apoc right in my eyes.

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>>8523555
>No zombie shit pls
>mfw I unironically enjoy this book

>>8523555
the iron heel, the sleeper awakes

>>8523555
The correct answer is Riddley Walker.

It is about people living in the area around Canterbury, England, centuries after a nuclear war as decimated the world. The level of develop has been set back to about the iron age, and people scavenge iron and steel from now ancient machines whose purpose they do not know. Most people are illiterate, except of a sort of elite class, of which the protagonist and first-person narrator, Riddley, is a part. The dialect and spelling are meant to reflect the passage or centuries and loss of historical knowledge. A central theme is misinterpretation.

>He wer crookit he wer badstock
>He wer not boath sides the same
>Which the knowing brung the doing
>And the doing brung the shame

>>8523728
Yeah, I enjoyed passage. It kinda went too far with bullerproofness of the "vampires", but it sure helped make them scary.

>>8523859
Yeah, I would really recommend the passage. I liked that the vampires are scary and monstrous instead of human-like. I enjoyed the breakdown of society and the world that comes after.

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Beautiful prose, art & philosophy, and ultra-subtle feels. Also happens to be post-apocalyptic.

>>8523560
The Road is a generic mediocrity.