Books like The Girl with All the Gifts
Melanie is a bright ten-year-old who loves Greek myths and her teacher, Miss Justineau, and who lives on an army base where every morning soldiers strap her into a wheelchair at gunpoint before taking her to class.
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The Passage
A secret military project to engineer soldiers from a virus found in the Bolivian jungle needs one more subject, six-year-old Amy Harper Bellafonte, and FBI agent Brad Wolgast, sent to bring her in, cannot go through with it, just as the experiment escapes its lab.
Rot & Ruin
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.
I Am Legend
Robert Neville may be the last man alive in Los Angeles after a plague turned everyone else into vampires; by day he hunts them and searches for the cause, and by night he barricades himself in his house while they call for him to come out.
The Stand
A superflu kills most of humanity, and the survivors are drawn into a final battle between good and evil across a devastated America.
The Reapers Are the Angels
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.
The Rising
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.
Ship Breaker
Nailer, a teenager on the drowned Gulf Coast, strips copper wiring from wrecked oil tankers for a scavenging crew. After a hurricane he finds a beached clipper ship with a rich girl alive in the wreckage, and has to decide whether to strip the ship and leave her or help her.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
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 Forest of Hands and Teeth
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.
Bird Box
Years after something began driving anyone who saw it to violence and suicide, Malorie sets out blindfolded down a river with two small children, in a post-apocalyptic thriller told in darkness.
Cell
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.
World War Z
Years after humanity barely survived a zombie outbreak, an investigator for the United Nations travels the world collecting accounts from soldiers, doctors, politicians and ordinary people of how the plague spread and how the war against the dead was fought.