Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)

This gloriously heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel jumps back and forth through time, telling the story of the Georgia Flu pandemic that wiped out 99.9% of all humanity in a space of weeks. We meet a cast of people who faced the end of the world, some who made it through and some who didn't. We learn of their lives leading up to the disaster, getting to know who they are and where they came from. We learn of what happened to them as civilization fell apart, and for those who survived, what their world was like for the next decades. Every person is fully realized, every setting and event is hauntingly true, and moments grab you without letting go: the realization that you have eaten your last orange ever, that you will never, ever know what happened to your loved ones, that there is no choice you can make that doesn't end in disaster and death. It is a splendid story, skillfully told, and I loved it.