Your best post-apocalyptic recs please?

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I tried to forget: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.

That story is 100% brilliant. The man is a brilliant writer. I will also never read anything by him again, after this story and another one about some sicko who can piggyback into people's minds. Although his victim turns the tables on him, the story left me needing brain bleach.
 

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Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but my favorite lately was a YA novel: Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi. The companion book, The Drowned Cities, is also excellent.