I'm not sure what my obsession with post-apocalyptic lit says about me as a human being. For better or worse, I love this stuff. I've read four of these types of books in the last 9 months...11 if you include the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. 
 Station Eleven was REALLY well done. It was true to form. Georgia flu strikes, and within a week the modern world collapses. We follow several well developed characters as they struggle to survive. The timeline of the story jumps back to before the flu and ahead twenty years in the future. The focus isn't on the horrors and nasty aspects of dead bodies, nor are there any supernatural or sci-fi elements. Rather, this novel focuses on the psychological impact of surviving such a massive shift in circumstance. This is contrasted with life as we know it, and the juxtaposition of these two worlds is powerful. Furthermore, the way the different strands of the story are woven together into a cohesive whole at the end was remarkable. 
 Great characters, a frightening pandemic, Shakespeare, a crazy cult, the end of the world as we know it, and some serious knowledge bombs aka meaning of life stuff. This story was simply sublime. I only wish there was an actual Station Eleven graphic novel.