Books

I loooovveeeed Station Eleven it's one of my favourite post apocalyptic books. You have excellent taste!

I'm reading the Willow Falls trilogy atm. It's post apocalyptic and has some weeved narratives. It's on kindle unlimited and I'm absolutely gripped by them, best books I've read in years.

Other post apocalyptic book that's excellent is Lockdown the first couple are great. Sadly they go off the rails.

Oh and if you haven't already read it then Day of the Triffids is a classic and excellent.

If you haven’t read it, Emily St John Mandel’s last novel, Sea of Tranquility, is excellent and tackles some of the themes if Station Eleven. It’s a time-travelling SF novel mixed with autofiction and ties in with some of her earlier writing. Super-recommended.

I also read Station Eleven recently! The only thing I can think of that is similar is maybe Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It's also a movie, if you're into that :)

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is an alternate history about if a plague had wiped out 90% of the European population before the renaissance and how the would could have shaken out instead, focusing primarily on Arabic and Chinese culture.

It follows a small group of people who are reincarnating through the ages, all the way up to modern times. It's an amazing novel, and very approachable if you're even vaguely into history.

I really enjoyed the Culture series by Ian M Banks

Try other books by Emily St. John Mandel! Sea of Tranqulity and The Glass Hotel have a similar structure :)

I loved the way the different storylines and characters were tied together, some intricately and some just loosely, as well as the multiple perspectives, timelines, and storylines.

Try The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.

One of my favourite books is World Made By Hand by James Kunstler. It’s a lot like Station Eleven in its a post apocalyptic setting, and how the people that are left are getting by with what they have. Apparently it’s a series of books now too, I just discovered that when I looked it up to get the authors name right, so now I’ve got more to read in that world, yay!

Thanks for asking this question, I’ve added a bunch to my reading list!

A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Lilith's Brood series by Octavia Butler

The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele

The Postman by David Brin

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

• One Day by David Nicholls because it uses overlapping narratives and different perspectives to tell one story
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller because it uses a post apocalyptic backdrop to take you on an emotional journey with the characters
• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud because its overlapping narratives over decades continually recolor events and motivations and outcomes
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin because its three protagonists have their own stories to tell, but they are intertwined and dependent. -Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park because the complex story structure lends itself to a powerful emotional journey for the protagonist and the reader

"How Few Remain" by Harry Turtledove. Alternate history where the South won the Civil war and now the North is coming for payback. Numerous characters interacting. warning - this book is a standalone, but it leads into a multi-book series where the two nations go through WW1, the Depression, and WW2.

I cannot recommend The Dog Stars (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/dbff7c12-aff3-4b55-ae20-9b2d0051c92d) enough. It has a peculiar style to it and, admittedly, it took me a couple starts until I got hooked. I am so glad I stuck with it. A very literary post-apocalyptic fiction story with more action than Station Eleven, but a similarly compelling character study.

Could I suggest the sci Fi of Cordwainer Smith? Different era and genre, but a similar kind of human beauty.

Maybe annihilation by Jeff vandermeer or Blindsight by Peter watts. Both of them have an ominous unknown quality. Lots of the suggestions listed are good but I don't think many capture the tone you seem to be going for.

Edit: add three body problem liu cixin and perdido street station by China mieville to my list

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

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As far as pandemic themed books, "The Stand" by Stephen King wears the crown.

"The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton isn't bad, either.