Nevil Shute - On the beach
Another book that became a movie. Though on the face of it the subject matter seems a little cheerless, both versions I found to be inspirational in their depiction of likeable 1950s-60s folks taking the worst possible news very well indeed.
Other than that, the usual round of Sci-fi short stories by the likes of Ballard, Baxter, Silverberg and their ilk and any kind of history I can get my hands on. We are living history after all. I am anyway
