The Other Life by Suzanne Winnacker Pages : 315 Genre : YA, Post-Apocalypse Series : The Other Life, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : 3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days : that’s the time Sherry has spent living in a sealed bunker with her family, after a deadly strand of rabies threatened mankind. When they suddenly run out of food, Sherry and her father decide to face the dangerous outside world for the first time in...

Wither by Lauren DeStefano Pages : 358 Genre : Ya, Post-Apocalyptic, “Dystopia” Series : The Chemical Garden, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : Rhine grew up knowing her days were counted : in her world, males die at 25 and females at 20, and young girls are viewed as prized possessions, their only worth being their capacity for making babies. Rhine is 16 when she gets kidnapped and married, along with two other girls,...

The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan Pages : 374 Genre : YA, Post-Apocalypse, Zombies Series : The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Book 3 My Rating : From the book’s jacket : Annah lives with a lot of regrets : the first is when she left her sister behind in the forest, never to be seen again. The second is the morning her friend Elias left to become a Recruiter, three years ago. Every day she hopes to see them again, and every day her...

Enclave by Ann Aguirre Pages : 259 Genre : YA, Post-Apocalypse Series : Razorland, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : Deuce’s world is divided in three classes : Builders, Breeders and Hunters. From as long as she can remember, she’s been preparing to be a Huntress, getting ready to face the “Freaks” that inhabit the tunnels outside of her enclave. On her first day as a Huntress, Deuce gets paired with Fade, a...

Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield Pages : 375 Genre : Post-Apocalyptic Series : Aftertime, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : After bio-terrorist attacks destroyed important parts of the ecosystem, the government’s plan to make it better failed by turning people into Beaters, creatures who yearn for human flesh. Extremely dangerous, the new disease has left many more dead than alive and forced the survivors to fight for the...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages : 287 Genre : Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : From the back of the book : A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a...

The Passage by Justin Cronin Pages : 766 Genre : Fiction, Vampires, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic First in a series My Rating : In short : Post-apocalyptic setting involving zombie-vampires, a bunch of survivors and a 100 years old teenager. From the Back of the Book : First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of...

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan Pages : 404 Genre : YA, Post-Apocalypse Companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth My Rating : From the Back of the Book : Gabry lives a quiet life, secure in her town next to the sea and behind the Barrier. She’s content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. Home is all she’s ever known, and all she needs for happiness. But life...