8 books like Aftertime

What to read after Aftertime — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Rebirth Sophie Littlefield · 2011 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back. Yet with the first winter, Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the land. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance that can end only in disaster.Now the leader of the survivalist community where… Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Mothers and daughters, Zombies

I Am Legend Richard Matheson · 1954 · ★ 4.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Zombies

White horses Alice Hoffman · 1982 · ★ 4.0 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the adult Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come true... Shares: Mothers and daughters, California

Horizon Sophie Littlefield · 2012 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As hope emerges from beneath the wastelands of California, Cass Dollar must overcome the worst of what's inside her to defeat the Beaters once and for all. Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Zombies

The return man V. M. Zito · 2012 · ★ 3.8 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The outbreak tore the US in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness, known by survivors as the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers peace. Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California, where the apocalypse began. Where… Shares: California, Zombies

Monster nation David Wellington · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The second entry in this "inventive and exciting" zombie series that began with Monster Island (Publishers Weekly). This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help—and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the… Shares: California, Zombies

The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s,… Shares: Mothers and daughters, California

The Stupidest Angel Christopher Moore · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into… Shares: California, Zombies

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