Post-Apocalyptic Books About What People Build Afterwards

The first emergency is only the beginning. These books stay interested in the work afterwards: growing food, repairing useful things, sharing authority, raising children and deciding what knowledge to pass on. Some follow a settlement taking shape; others visit cultures formed generations after the collapse. I have included failed and coercive arrangements as well as hopeful ones, because a roof and a set of rules do not by themselves make a decent home. Start with Earth Abides for the long view, Bannerless for local institutions, or Station Eleven for the things a community needs beyond bare survival.