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Seveneves kind of touches on rebuilding although it skips decades and centuries. Lucifer's Hammer deals with the aftermath of a global disaster and includes some rebuilding... kind of. Alas, Babylon explores a post-nuclear world. None of them are particularly optimistic except Seveneves (in a way), but it also doesn't explore rebuilding in a lot of detail. Since you're already reading Octavia Butler, you can try Lilith's Brood, but it won't be anything like rebuilding the modern world. Asimov's Foundation series is about rebuilding at a galactic scale but I'm not sure they aged particularly well.
If you're interested in building specifically you can try Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.
In addition: Children of Time might scratch the itch in a way since it's about the development of a sentient species. I think the sequel explores more building, but i haven't read it yet and the reviews are kind of mixed