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All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming
16 ratingsThe final book in the Until the End of the World series is here! Cassie Forrest has sworn she’ll never let the world get the best of her again. She’s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it’s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely...Categorized as:
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![The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims]()
The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims
12 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming]()
And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming
16 ratingsCassie Forrest could almost believe life at Kingdom Come Farm is perfect, with Adrian and her friends at her side and spring on the way. The spring thaw also means millions of defrosting zombies, however, and if the past year has taught her anything, it’s that life in this new world is highly imperfect...Categorized as:
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Light by Michael Grant
29 ratingsIt's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...Categorized as:
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![Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier]()
Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier
12 ratingsIf you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take.Yet here I am at Sanctuary...Categorized as:
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![Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里]()
Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里
12 ratingsOne day, You Huo and his famiIy was puIIed into an exam caIIed the GIobaI University Entrance Examination. Going through exams together with other unfortunate examinees, their Iives are put at stake and they can only Iive by passing each exam... -
![Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken]()
Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken
19 ratingsDon’t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards...Categorized as:
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![The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer]()
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
19 ratingsTwo boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch... -
![The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness]()
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
39 ratingsWe were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...Categorized as:
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![Hellions by Natalie Bennett]()
Hellions by Natalie Bennett
8 ratingsMaliki Vicious. Nyx Chaotic. Maliki + Nyx Vicious. Chaotic. Gods. What once was sweet has turned vile. I covet death. He thrives in darkness. Our sacrilegious desires run rampant. Our maleficent demons demand to be sated. Mercy finds no refuge in our hearts. Insanity takes courtship within our minds. Together, we embark on a path saturated in blood and rotting corpses... -
![Mist by 微风几许]()
Mist by 微风几许
8 ratingsyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius... -
![Fear by Michael Grant]()
Fear by Michael Grant
32 ratingsIt's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...Categorized as:
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![Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin]()
Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin
10 ratingsContagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...Categorized as:
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![The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin]()
The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin
10 ratingsThe Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series!A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead.Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...Categorized as:
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![Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin]()
Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin
12 ratingsDeathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even...Categorized as:
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Plague by Michael Grant
34 ratingsIt's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach...Categorized as:
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![Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith]()
Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith
14 ratingsThey never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood... -
![Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming]()
Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming
18 ratingsCassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk...Categorized as:
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![Defy the Future by Keira Andrews]()
Defy the Future by Keira Andrews
6 ratingsTo protect their pack, they must risk everything.Adam and Parker are finally safe. As safe as they can be in a world where the zombie-like infected still roam the night. With other survivors, they’ve built a community—a pack. Until that peace is shattered... -
![The Grace Year by Kim Liggett]()
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
36 ratingsNo one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood...Categorized as:
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![God of Monsters by Keri Lake]()
God of Monsters by Keri Lake
8 ratingsI've heard stories about the Alphas. Violent soldiers, bred to kill both humans and mutations, whose sole purpose was to balance our survival against the infected. Until they turned on their masters. Held as subjects of the Calico research facility, they were forced to endure the gruesome experiments that transformed them into callous savages with hearts as impenetrable as their defenses...Categorized as:
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![State of Vengeance by Summer Lane]()
State of Vengeance by Summer Lane
8 ratingsVengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger... -
![Deadland Rising by Rachel Aukes]()
Deadland Rising by Rachel Aukes
10 ratingsThe conclusion of the critically acclaimed DEADLAND SAGA:Winter has arrived. It has been nearly one year since the zombie hordes claimed the world. As the plague eats away at its victims’ bodies, the Fox survivors search for a safe place to rebuild what they have lost. But a dangerous new threat has risen, hunting them from every direction...Categorized as:
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![State of Pursuit by Summer Lane]()
State of Pursuit by Summer Lane
10 ratingsCassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action. A horrific battle with Omega has left too many good men and women dead, and Cassidy must bear the burden of leadership in the militia on her own. But she's not about to give up...Categorized as:
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![Replay by Ken Grimwood]()
Replay by Ken Grimwood
28 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that...Categorized as:
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![The Storm We Face by Katie May]()
The Storm We Face by Katie May
12 ratingsWell... So far, my apocalpytic upbringing has not been peaches and daisies (if that is how the saying goes). Or is it peaches and pansies? Fighting off feral beasts, surviving natural disasters, and coming face to face with the worst that humankind has to offer is quite tiresome. Psycho ex-girlfriends? Check. Creepy monsters/zombies? Check. Orgasms? Not check. Yet...Categorized as:
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![Dying to Love by Reese Rivers]()
Dying to Love by Reese Rivers
12 ratings662 - Days since the dead rose up413 - Days since I've spoken to another living human4 - Men who have climbed my fence looking for safety1 - Last chance for LoveKelsey survived the start of the apocalypse and thrived in the new world with help from her friends but now they're gone... -
![The Light We Seek by Katie May]()
The Light We Seek by Katie May
14 ratingsNow that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...Categorized as:
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![Fighting for Rain by B.B. Easton]()
Fighting for Rain by B.B. Easton
16 ratingsThe world was supposed to end on April 23, but Rainbow Williams’s world ended days before that. The mass hysteria caused by the impending apocalypse claimed everything she’d ever loved. Her family. Her city. Her will to live. Until she met him. Wes Parker didn’t have anything left for the apocalypse to take…he’d already lost it all by the time he was nine-years-old. His family. His home...Categorized as:
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![Found by Imogen Keeper]()
Found by Imogen Keeper
6 ratingsKILLING A PERSON changes you. Killing your little brother destroys you. I should know. His name was Carl. When he was a kid, he always ate the blue M&Ms first and then the green. He dreamed of going to go to the moon. I didn't hesitate. I didn’t even blink...Categorized as:
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![Taoree by Michele Notaro]()
Taoree by Michele Notaro
6 ratingsIf you’re reading this, I hope that means that we’ve survived, but after everything I’ve seen, I’m sure that’s only wishful thinking… This is my story… a story of what happens when you trust an alien race. A race that lived peacefully with humans for over two years, but something suddenly changed... -
![Miscreants: Next Generation by Natalie Bennett]()
Miscreants: Next Generation by Natalie Bennett
6 ratingsLove is madness.Love is anguish.Ours was ill-fated from the beginning. From best friends, to almost lovers, to this.We were poetry. The kind that bled and wept.We’d become a mess of euphoric bliss and mind-numbing pain.I promised to follow him until the bitter end, but after far too long I needed to go home.The odds would be stacked against me in every way.He’d come after me, of that I was sure... -
![The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon]()
The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon
6 ratingsJack Rybicki is a high school senior who loves his girl, likes to party, and doesn't have much of a plan for his life. Then fate plucks him from obscurity and Jack, now renamed Jack Samuels by his management team, becomes one of the most famous people on the planet. A teenager who likes to indulge himself with limitless resources is not the best recipe for a successful life... -
![Renegades: Badlands Next Generation by Natalie Bennett]()
Renegades: Badlands Next Generation by Natalie Bennett
6 ratingsOf the devil’s flesh and bone, the prince is ready to claim his throne.I want power.Cam wants penance.I've got a black cult religion backing my decisions.He's got demons hungry for carnage.Everything was going smoothly.Until her.She's the forbidden fruit we're supposed to beware of, but something carnal is growing between us... -
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![Anubis by Adrienne Wilder]()
Anubis by Adrienne Wilder
6 ratingsIt was supposed to be over: The Utah Facility discovered, New World Genetics dismantled, and those hunting Luca—dead.Then strangers who call themselves Varu come for Luca for help. They claim he’s a Cana and tell him he’s the only one who can bring back their wolves.Nox doesn’t want to trust them, then he learns people called Mah are responsible for the atrocities committed in the Utah Facility... -
![Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin]()
Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin
8 ratingsDaughter of Eve. Leader of the Resistance. Mankind’s savior. Dawn is supposed to be the ultimate weapon against the bloodthirsty hybrids that control the desolate planet.But she didn’t inherit superhuman speed or virus-curing blood.She’s just a human... -
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Heathens by Natalie Bennett
8 ratingsCobra Wildcard. Sinner. Frequently misunderstood. I can be your best friend or your worst fucking nightmare. The Savages are my family and the Badlands is our paradise. When that’s threatened, no one is safe. Carnage and chaos unfold around me. Loyalties are tested. Truths start to unravel...Categorized as:
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![Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi]()
Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi
8 ratingsLe esplosive rivelazioni di Defy Me hanno lasciato i lettori sconvolti e alla disperata ricerca di risposte. Grazie alla novella Reveal Me, avranno l’opportunità di tornare nell’universo di Shatter Me e di scoprire attraverso la voce di Kenji cos’è accaduto tra lui e Nazeera prima dell’incredibile finale di Imagine Me... -
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Population by Elizabeth Stephens
10 ratingsAbel Eleven years after the sky opened up and aliens descended to ravage the world, Abel thought she had seen and experienced everything that this savage new land - Population - had to offer. Almost...Shock is what she feels when the alien she robbed hunts her down. His corpse, though huge and glowing, had been mangled and left for the scavengers...Categorized as:
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![The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May]()
The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May
10 ratingsLife hasn’t been kind to me. Combined with the world ending, storms ravaging the coast, and zombie-like creatures attacking, I’m not able to catch a break. But this time? The world took it too far. Separated from two of my men and grieving a third, I will stop at nothing to make our fractured team whole again...Categorized as:
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![Deviants by Natalie Bennett]()
Deviants by Natalie Bennett
12 ratings-Calista- Sick bitch Maniac Out of my fucking head. I’m not broken. I’m just a little damaged. I’m stronger now, stronger than I ever knew. And it’s all because of him. This is only the beginning but I already know how it’s going to end. I’ll be claiming my throne and they’ll be buried in the dirt...Categorized as:
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![The Darkness We Crave by Katie May]()
The Darkness We Crave by Katie May
14 ratingsMost people don't think about where they're going to be when the world ends. On the beach drinking margaritas? In the arms of a lover? How about in a shit-ass resort run by your shit-ass parents? I have always lived my life as the perfect daughter. At seventeen, I had no other option than to follow my parents' strict regiment...Categorized as:
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![Juniper Unraveling by Keri Lake]()
Juniper Unraveling by Keri Lake
14 ratingsGet ready for a heart-wrenching story of survival, set in the post-apocalyptic southwest, with an all-new dystopian romance from the author of Ricochet and Backfire. Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told. Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers...Categorized as:
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![Pursued by Evangeline Anderson]()
Pursued by Evangeline Anderson
18 ratingsElise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron—the wildest of all the Kindred worlds... -
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![Born to Fight by Tara Brown]()
Born to Fight by Tara Brown
18 ratingsWhen Emma wakes strapped to a cold metal table she has only one name on her lips, "Marshall!" What she doesn't expect is discovering that he is only one of the disturbing people in her small world who deserves to die in a fiery death. Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to...Categorized as:
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![Reborn by Tara Brown]()
Reborn by Tara Brown
18 ratingsTwenty years ago a man made a child he never intended to love.Ten years ago the world ended and Emma turned her back on the man she believed was her father.Eight weeks ago she discovered the truth about her family, including the sister she never knew she had.Last week she had her heart broken by the one man she never imagined giving it to...Categorized as:
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![Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin]()
Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin
25 ratingsIt's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa...Categorized as:
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![The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard]()
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard
35 ratingsKeep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same?The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it...Categorized as:
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![Hold Me by L.J. Baker]()
Hold Me by L.J. Baker
6 ratingsNothing comes easy in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world and Andi is used to losing the people she cares about. But when Will gets infected so soon after getting him back, she can't accept the possibility that her life may have to go on without him...Categorized as:
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![Pandemonium by Susanna Strom]()
Pandemonium by Susanna Strom
6 ratingsIt might be the end of the world…and I’m falling in love.In a dangerous, apocalyptic world, he’s the last man a girl like me should trust.When a simple flu virus morphs into a lethal worldwide pandemic, I take refuge at my prepper cousin’s compound. There I find myself face to face with a deadly sexy stranger...Categorized as:
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