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I'd enthusiastically second/third Oryx & Crake, The Road, and Cloud Atlas. I cannot recommend Age of Miracles, I hated it. Its totally affected, stilted purple prose writing was terrible. It was actually the worst book I have started all year, I think. But I acknowledge a lot of people seem to like it, so maybe I'm the outlier.
Anyway, I didn't see Soft Apocalypse by Will Mcintosh mentioned yet. Apologies if it was already. I very strongly recommend it. It is a terrific book that really surprised me with how well-written it is and how it took some genuinely unexpected twists and turns. As the title suggests, it's an end of the world/ post-apocalyptic scenario where there is no single "big event", just lots of little things that cause society to erode and slide downwards towards barbarism. The characters try to hang onto normalcy whenever possible, but it gets harder and harder to do so. Fascinating, disturbing at times, poignant and chillingly all-too-plausible. I kinda want to re-read it now that I've described it.
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