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Carrie Ryan · 2009 · US · horror · young adult
Book 1 of 3 in The Forest of Hands and Teeth
★ 3.60 Goodreads · 87,917 ratings

Mary lives in a fenced village ruled by the Sisterhood, surrounded by a forest of the Unconsecrated, and dreams of the ocean her mother told her about.

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12 books for readers of The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Rot & Ruin

Jonathan Maberry · 2010 · US 97% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 37,378 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Benny Imura
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, survival, zombies · easy read, earnest

Benny Imura, fifteen, needs a job in his fenced town in a zombie-ridden California, and reluctantly becomes an apprentice to his older brother Tom, a zombie hunter.

The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey · 2017 · UK 97% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 31,386 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in The Girl with All the Gifts
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, survival, zombies · earnest, easy read

Twelve scientists and soldiers cross Britain in an armoured lab called the Rosalind Franklin, looking for a cure for the hungry plague, and Stephen Greaves, a gifted teenage boy among them, finds something new.

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Robert Kirkman · 2004 · US 96% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 247,664 ratings
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, survival, zombies · easy read, earnest

Rick Grimes, a small-town Kentucky deputy, wakes from a coma in hospital to find the dead walking, and sets out to find his wife and son.

The Rising

Brian Keene · 2003 · US 96% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 11,206 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Rising
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, survival, zombies · easy read, cold

After a demonic force reanimates the dead all over the world, Jim Thurmond, a construction worker in West Virginia, sets out across a ruined America to find his young son, who has called him from New Jersey.

The Reapers Are the Angels

Alden Bell · 2010 · US 95% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 12,746 ratings
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, survival, zombies · earnest, easy read

Temple, a fifteen-year-old girl who has never known the world before the dead rose, wanders the ruined American South, finding beauty in it and running from a man who wants to kill her.

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 110,586 ratings
shares: zombie, post apocalyptic, zombies · easy read, earnest

R, a zombie who can't remember his name, eats the brain of a young man and, flooded with his memories, saves the man's girlfriend, Julie, and falls for her.

Dread Nation

Justina Ireland · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 36,771 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Dread Nation
shares: zombie, young adult, zombies · easy read, cold

After the dead rose at Gettysburg and ended the Civil War, Jane McKeene, a Black girl trained at a combat school to protect white people from the shamblers, is sent to a town in Kansas.

Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 2015 · US 92% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 274,792 ratings
shares: forest, village · earnest, easy read

A village girl with earth magic is conscripted to fight an ancient evil in the enchanted forest, and discovers power she never imagined.

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 2013 · US 92% match ★ 3.70 Hardcover · 554 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The 5th Wave
shares: post apocalyptic, survival, young adult · easy read, cold

After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.

Cell

Stephen King · 2006 · US 90% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 242,371 ratings
shares: zombie, survival · easy read, earnest

Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · US 89% match ★ 4.36 Goodreads · 10,329,666 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games
shares: survival, young adult · easy read, earnest

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.

Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 2015 · US 88% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,228,617 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Red Queen
shares: love triangle, young adult · easy read, earnest

In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.