Post apocalyptic fiction

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54. I see a bunch of people suggesting A Cantacle for Leibowitz

I just started reading that one- Pretty good so far.

A couple of others I've read are Tongues of the Moon by Philip Jose Farmer; Not destined to be a classic, but not a waste of time either. In it the Russians have taken over most of the world, but the couple of remaining free nations (the Argentine-South African Axis) sets off a bunch of nukes and destroys the world, leaving the not-entirely-self-sufficient Russian and Axis colonies on Mars and the Moon to fight over who will control the future of humanity.

Another one that I read many years ago (I was a teenager, but I remember it as being a good read) is Z For Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien. It's told in the form of a diary of a young woman who lives on a farm in a valley. There is a nuclear war, but somehow the valley is spared. After a few days all the men decide to go into town to look for other survivors and never return, leaving her alone until a scientist in an prototype environment suit shows up...