18 books like The end

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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.4 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a… Shares: Community pick

Little Women Louisa May Alcott · 1848 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Louisa May Alcotts classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. This simpler version captures all the charm and warmth of the… Shares: Community pick

A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen · 1889 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Translation of Doll's house, English translation of Norwegian original by William Archer. Shares: Community pick

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 -- Fiction, Zombies, Horror stories, Children's fiction

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, London, Zombies, Horror stories

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, London, Zombies, Horror stories

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, London, Zombies, Horror stories

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: Zombies -- Fiction, Survival, Zombies, 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, London, Zombies, Horror stories

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, London, Zombies, Horror stories

Diary of a Minecraft Zombie, Book 12 Zack Zombie · 2017 · ★ 5.0 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Zombie has discovered new and amazing creatures in the Minecraft World called Pixelmon! Except little by little the Pixelmon are disappearing and nobody knows why. Can Zombie, Steve and their Minecraft friends save the Pixelmon from utter extinction? Or will they get into even more wacky trouble than ever before? Shares: Zombies -- Fiction, Zombies, Children's fiction

Night of the living zombie bugs Dave Coverly · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Now that they are Eagle Scouts, Speed Bump and Slingshot must summon the courage to face the zombie bugs infesting their forest. Shares: Zombies -- Fiction, Zombies, Children's fiction

The Last Star Richard Yancey · 2016 · ★ 3.6 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "The enemy is other. The enemy is us. There'y down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In… Shares: Survival--Fiction, Survival, 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

Monsters Ilsa J. Bick · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Moderate "Alex and Tom's future is uncertain as they continue the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, and their lives are threatened by the Changed and other human survivors" Alex's and Tom's futures are uncertain as they continue the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Their lives are threatened by the Changed and other human survivors. The plot contains profanity, sexual… 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, Children's fiction

The death collector Justin Richards · 2006 · ★ 3.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs. Shares: London, Zombies, 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, Children's fiction

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