AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Night of the Purple Moon

Scott Cramer · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Worlds We Make

Megan Crewe · 280 pages

*The virus has taken away Kaelyn’s friends, her family, her home. And now a deadly enemy threatens to take the one hope she has left: THE CURE.* When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over. But now they're being tracked by the Wardens, a band of survivors as lethal as the virus who are intent on s

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryIsland
❤️

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 496 pages

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."? -- The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece ... should do for aliens what Twilight.

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryYoung Adult
❤️

The Kill Order

James Dashner · 384 pages

Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth, killing most of the population. Mark and Trina were there when it happened. They survived. But now a virus is spreading. A virus that fills humans with murderous rage. They’re convinced that there’s a way to save those who are left—if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devas

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
❤️

Fragments

Dan Wells · 564 pages

**KIRA WALKER HAS FOUND THE CURE** for RM, but the battle for the survivial of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence--it must be part of a large plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Her companions are Afa D

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
❤️

Life As We Knew It

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 356 pages

Miranda lives a normal life in a normal family. When an asteroid is scheduled to hit the moon, nobody realized that it would change the world forever. Together with her family, Miranda must struggle to survive and hope for help.

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryYoung Adult
❤️

The Islands at the End of the World

Austin Aslan · 371 pages

Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryIslandTeen Protagonist
❤️

The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryYoung Adult
❤️

Plague

Michael Grant

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

Eve

Anna Carey

Where do you go when nowhere is safe? Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. But the night before graduation, Eve learns

PlagueSurvival StoryPost-ApocalypticTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Girl Who Owned a City

O.T. Nelson · 189 pages

When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryScience Fiction
🙂

מבחני הכווייה

James Dashner, Debbie Eylon · 351 pages

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

Maze Runner : The Scorch Trials

Jackson Lanzing & Collin P Kelly

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken · 528 pages

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: f

PlagueSurvival StoryYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Rain

Virginia Bergin · 385 pages

One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog with Caspar McCloud in a hot tub, and the next she's being bundled inside the house, dripping wet, cold and in her underwear. Not cool. As she and Caspar shiver in the kitchen, it starts to rain. They turn on the radio to hear panicked voices - 'It's in the rain ...it's in the rain ...' That was two weeks ago, and now Ruby is

Post-ApocalypticPlagueSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

The Eleventh Plague

Jeff Hirsch

In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade. But when Stephen's grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen find his

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
🙂

A Matter of Days

Amber Kizer

In the not-too-distant future when a global pandemic kills most of humanity, a teenaged girl and her younger brother struggle to survive.

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
🙂

Anna

Niccolo Ammaniti · 261 pages

Four years after a virus wipes out all adults, 13-year-old Anna Salemi spends her days foraging in the ruins of a Sicilian landscape ravaged by fires, looting, and violence. Dogs rove in packs, desperate for food, as do the nearly feral children who've been left behind, untouched by the Red Fever-- until puberty strikes, and they become susceptible to the virus. Anna channels her energy into pursu

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
🙂

Reborn

Tara Brown

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryScience Fiction
🙂

Ashes

Ilsa J. Bick · 480 pages

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultScience Fiction
🙂

Empty World

John Christopher · 134 pages

When a deadly virus kills off most of the world's population, a teenaged boy tries to survive in a seemingly empty England.

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryTeen Protagonist
🙂

ARV-3

Cameo Renae · 314 pages

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

The Young World

Chris Weitz · 373 pages

Jefferson, with his childhood friend Donna, leads a tribe of teenagers in New York City on a dangerous quest to find an antidote for a mysterious illness that wiped out all adults and children.

PlaguePost-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung Adult
🙂

Inhuman

Kat Falls · 384 pages

PlagueSurvival StoryTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
🙂

Enclave

Ann Aguirre

In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultScience Fiction
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗