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Angelfall

Susan Ee

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticMother and DaughterYoung Adult
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After the Flood

Kassandra Montag · 448 pages

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryWater and RiversMother and Daughter
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Son

Lois Lowry · 400 pages

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Mother and DaughterSurvival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung Adult
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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.

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultDark
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The Farm

Emily McKay

Life was different in the Before: before the Ticks began devouring humans in a deadly swarm across America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined “for their own protection.” These days, we know what those quarantines are—holding pens where human blood is turned into more food for the Ticks. Surrounded by electrical fences, most kids try to survive the Farms by turning o

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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Aftertime

Sophie Littlefield

Post-ApocalypticMother and DaughterSurvival StoryDark
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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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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-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultDark
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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 AdultDark
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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-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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Ashfall

Mike Mullin · 476 pages

After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticRural FarmYoung Adult
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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.

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticMother and DaughterYoung Adult
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The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 375 pages

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade--a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone do

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultDark
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Arena One: Slaverunners

Morgan Rice · 390 pages

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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Poison Princess

Kresley Cole · 384 pages

She could save the world—or destroy it. Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-si

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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The Line Between

Tamsyn Bester · 554 pages

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Drowned

Cyn Balog, Nichola Reilly · 300 pages

In a post-apocalyptic world where dry land is at a premium amidst cataclysmic floods, sixteen-year-old Coe, who has lost one of her hands, and her beloved, Tiam, struggle to uncover the mysteries of their community's past and the dark secrets of its king.

Water and RiversPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultSeries Starter
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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-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark
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Hunger

Michael Grant

It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared.Gone. Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers.Tension rises and

Survival StoryPost-ApocalypticYoung AdultDark
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The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin · 440 pages

""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now ave

Post-ApocalypticMother and DaughterSurvival StoryDark
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Contaminated

Em Garner · 330 pages

"Velvet fights for her family's survival after a widespread contamination turns a segment of the population, including her mother, into ultra-violent zombie-like creatures"--

Post-ApocalypticMother and DaughterYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Burn

Julianna Baggott · 487 pages

Inside the Dome, Partridge, having taken his father's place as leader of the Pures, realizes that things are not as clear as he thought while outside, Pressia and Bradwell continue their efforts to heal the Wretches, unsure if they can still trust their friend Partridge.

Post-ApocalypticSurvival StoryYoung AdultDark

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