18 books like Monsters

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

The Enemy (The Enemy #1) Charles Higson · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Moderate They'll chase you.They'll rip you open.They'll feed on you . . .When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician – every adult – fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The Hunted Charles Higson · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 454p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother. Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The Fear (The Enemy #3) Charles Higson · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The sickness struck everyone sixteen and over. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters, and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups who are hungry, bloodthirsty, and not giving up. DogNut and the rest of his crew, in search of the friends they lost during the fire, set off on a deadly mission from the Tower of London to… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The End Games T. Michael Martin · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate John Green meets Stephen King in this original take on the zombie apocalypse by author T. Michael Martin, which ALA Booklist called "the best of the undead bunch" in a starred review.Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in the Game for weeks. In the rural mountains of West Virginia—armed with only their rifle and their love for each… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Shadows Ilsa J. Bick · 2012 · ★ 3.8 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate When Alex discovers that Rule is not a sanctuary, she must battle to survive against conniving adults, distrusting survivors, and the Changed, who would eat her alive. Shares: Survival, Zombies, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie Jeff Norton · 2014 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "My name is Adam Meltzer and the last thing I remember was being stung by a bee while swinging at a robot-shaped pinata on my twelfth birthday. I was dead before the candy hit the ground". 'Memoirs of a neurotic zombie' is narrated by the hilarious Adam Meltzer - pre-teen, worrywart, and now zombie. Adam's family gets the fright of their lives when he turns up at their door ... three months after… Shares: Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The fallen Charles Higson · 2013 · ★ 4.4 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The Enemy is among us . . .First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets of London, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across the city and made it to the Natural History Museum alive--just barely. But their fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way. The Holloway crew has made it… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

Ashes Ilsa J. Bick · 2011 · ★ 3.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses. Shares: Survival, Death, Zombies, Science Fiction

Contaminated Em Garner · 2013 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc. Shares: Zombies, Horror stories, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

The Sacrifice Charles Higson · 2012 · ★ 5.0 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The Sacrifice picks up after Small Sam and The Kid arrive at the Tower of London at the end of The Dead. Though Sam finds safety and friendship at the Tower with Jordan Hordern's crew, he can't settle down. The only thing he wants is to be reunited with his sister, Ella. Despite Ed's protests, Sam and the Kid strike out westward, through the no-go zone. Meanwhile, Shadowman is tracking Saint… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

Inbetween Tara Fuller · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin?… Shares: Death, Zombies, Children's fiction

Zombie town Robert Lawrence Stine · 2001 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "The zombie with the missing eye stood at the front of the stage. But it wasn't alone anymore. At least ten more zombies had joined it"--Page 4 of cover. Shares: Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The Undertakers Ty Drago · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When a new Corpse leader, the Queen of the Dead, has taken command of the zombie invasion, Will Ritter and his friends renew their efforts to rescue Will's mother, prevent an assassination, and convince FBI Agent Ramirez of the truth. Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Science Fiction

Basement of the undead Jason Strange · 2011 When Lew, Gary, and Lugnut are trapped in their middle school basement, they discover that at night it becomes the domain of zombie teachers and students--will they survive or be forced to join the undead? Shares: Death, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

Dread Nation Justina Ireland · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Civil War era America derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children to attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also… Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

The dead-tossed waves Carrie Ryan · 2010 · ★ 3.9 Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She's content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats… Shares: Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

Last Chance: A Novel (The Rains Brothers) Gregg Andrew Hurwitz · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Return to Creek's Cause to follow the Rains brothers as they fight an alien threat that has transformed everyone over the age of 18 into ferocious, zombie-like beings. Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity s only hope for salvation. Shares: Zombies, Horror stories, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

The Undertakers Ty Drago · 2011 · ★ 4.2 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate When the living dead invade Philadelphia, Will Ritter and a group of teenage resistance fighters, known as the Undertakers, are the only ones that can see them to stop the invasion. Shares: Survival, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

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