#8 The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.

But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

I love post-apocalyptic stories and have read a lot of them. This wasn't the best. And it wasn't the worst. The author had an odd writing style. The main character was very much a hunter/nature person which I can''t relate to as much, but still appreciate.