Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

(About a civilization-ending pandemic and its aftermath)

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

(An Oxford graduate student part of a time-traveling history research group ends up in the middle of the deadliest pandemic in history, Black Plague)

Room by Emma Donoghue

(Narrated from the point of the view of a five-year-old who has grown up with his mother in a single room)

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

(A woman forced to give birth during apocalyptic floods is forced to flee and move from place to place)

The Trial by Franz Kafka

(The protagonist is arrested for a crime he doesn't know about, he fights to prove his innocence with the invisible law and untouchable court)

Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams

Iraq +100 edited by Hassan Blasim

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn

We Ate The Children Last by Yann Martell