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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

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Dust & Decay

Jonathan Maberry · 519 pages

In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.

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World After

Susan Ee · 336 pages

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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

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Scorch Trials

James Dashner

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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.

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 373 pages

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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

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 448 pages

In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.

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The Border

Robert McCammon · 441 pages

The Border is the saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations. But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, e

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Outpost

Ann Aguirre · 320 pages

Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town where she is treated like a child and avoided by Fade, a situation that compels her to volunteer for patrol duty and protect topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity. Deuce's whole world has changed. Down below, she was considered an adult, but now, topside in a town called Salvation, she's a brat in need of training. Deuce do

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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

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Taronga

Victor Kelleher · 261 pages

Two years after the Last Days, Australia has become a dangerous place, and a battle-ground for survival.Ben, who has a telepathic ability to control animals, leads a hazardous existence in the bush west of the Blue Mountains. Hopeful of a less brutal life, he escapes to Sydney - only to be further disillusioned. Then, at the heart of the city he comes upon Taronga Zoo, which has been strangely una

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Brother in the Land

Robert Swindells · 160 pages

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Killer of Enemies

Joseph Bruchac · 400 pages

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Survival Colony Nine

Joshua David Bellin · 325 pages

Querry Gen, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.

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Valentine's Rising

E.E. Knight · 360 pages

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Hiero's Journey

Sterling E. Lanier · 280 pages

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The Wild Shore

Kim Stanley Robinson · 374 pages

2047: and for sixty years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. Seventeen-year-old Henry wants to help make America great again. Like it was before all the bombs went off. But for the people of Onofre Valley, on the coast of California, just surviving is challenge enough. Living simply on what the sea and land can provide, they strive to preserve what knowledge and sk

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Out of the Ashes

William W. Johnstone · 480 pages

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Metro 2035

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 502 pages

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Hollowland

Amanda Hocking · 321 pages

Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland of America, and nothing will stand in her way--not violent marauders, a spoiled rockstar, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.

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Frost

M.P. Kozlowsky · 336 pages

16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.

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The Night of the Triffids

Simon Clark · 469 pages

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