After Earth Abides
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Earth Abides captivated you with its slow, deliberate unraveling of civilization—nature's patient reclamation, knowledge bleeding away, no heroic saviors. You craved the meditative realism, the flawed everyman navigating tribalism, the unflinching honesty about humanity's fragile grip on progress. That hunger for contemplative collapse fiction deserves to be fed.