Diary of Pelly D
LJ Adlington (YA ADLINGTON, LJ)
Toni V discovers the diary of long dead girl who describes life as she deals with a devastating nuclear holocaust (12 & up).

Kindling, Keepers of the Flame, Kiln
The Fire-us Trilogy
Jennifer Armstrong (YA ARMSTRONG, JEN)
In Florida, kids must band together for their survival as adults fall victim to a catastrophic virus (12 & up).

Exodus & Zenith
Julie Bertagna (YA BERTAGNA, JUL)
15 year old Mara must lead a band of refugees to find a new home as rising waters consume their island in these futuristic
novels (11 & up).

The Compound
S. A. Bodeen (YA BODEEN, S. A.)
After living underground for 6 years to wait out a nuclear war, Eli finds out that a horrible hoax has been perpetrated on him (12 and up).

Bloodsong
Melvin Burgess (YA BURGESS, MEL)
Burgess sets an old Viking epic in an apocalyptic future as heroic animal/robot hybrid Sigurd battles dragons and attempts to rescue his love from the underworld with disastrous consequences (14 & up).

Hunger Games & Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins (YA COLLINS, SUZ)
Katniss must represent district 12 in a deadly competition against other teens.  Does she have the mental, social and physical skills needed to survive the ultimate reality show? (12 & up).

Sky Inside
Clare B. Dunkle (YA DUNKLE, CLA)
Martin has everything he could want in his futuristic domed city, but when someone decides to take his precocious little sister away because of a “defect” in her model’s makeup, he sets out to get her back and discovers what life outside the dome is really like (12 and up).

Dirt Eaters
Dennis Foon (YA FOON, DEN)
Roan is the lone survivor of Longlight.  As he learns fighting skills from the religious cult, “the Brothers”, his training conflicts with the values he learned in Longlight (12 & up).

Other Side of the Island
Allegra Goodman (YA GOODMAN, ALL)
Honor and her family are forced into a “safe” island by the Corporation.  While Honor initially conforms to her new environment, her parents rebel until they are taken.  Honor must then decide where her true loyalties lie (12 & up).

Gone & Hunger: a Gone Novel
Michael Grant (YA GRANT, MIC)
When all the adults disappear, the children left in Perdido Beach must band together to remake civilization. But as kids vie for leadership roles, others develop special powers and make plans for dominating Perdido Beach. (14 & up).

The Crystal Drop
Monica Hughes (J HUGHES, MON)
Siblings Megan and Ian fight for survival in a Canada devastated by natural disasters (11 & up).

Carbon Diaries 2015
Saci Lloyd (YA LLOYD, SAC)
Laura Brown documents the first year of carbon dioxide rationing in England as natural disasters have profound effects on the world.  Can Laura have a “normal” teen life in this environment? (14 & up).

Declaration
Gemma Malley (YA MALLEY, GEM)
After developing a drug that extends life indefinitely, society buckles under the population explosion.  As new rules outlaw having children, the few children that do get born assume a lower status compared to the immortals.  Anna is one of these children (14 & up).

Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness (YA NESS, PAT)
Set in a world where war has killed all women and infected the men with a germ that broadcasts all the men’s thoughts to others, Todd Hewitt discovers a hole in this Noise and goes to search it out (14 & up).

Life as We Knew It & Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer (YA PFEFFER, SUS)
As a meteor hits the moon, pushing it off its axis, life changes for teens in Pennsylvania and New York in these two haunting novels (13 & up).

The Last Oasis
Sue Pace (YA PACE, SUE)
Two Portland teens set out for a better life in Idaho after war and toxic waste ravage the country (13 & up).

Mortal Engines & Predator’s Gold
(The Hunger City Chronicles)
Philip Reeve (YA REEVES, PHI)
In a post-apocalyptic world where large traction cities like London track down small cities to consume them, teenager Tom searches for a way to stop the city from acquiring more weapons (12 & up).

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan (YA RYAN, CAR)
Seven generations after the Return, an undead plague that wiped out civilization, the last remnants of society remain in walled isolation.  Teenager Mary dreams of and seeks out a world outside of her village
beyond the forest of zombies (14 & up).

Unwind
Neal Shusterman (YA SHUSTERMAN, NEA)
In the near future, society holds that all life is sacred until the age of 13, when parents can choose to “unwind” their children (sacrifice them for organ donations).  Three marked teens escape looking for safety (13 & up).

Y: the Last Man
Brian K. Vaughan (GN Y: the LAST MAN)
This adult graphic novel series follows Yorrick, the last man left alive after a plague kills every other man.  Yorrick searches for why he was immune as the surviving women reform society. For mature teens (16 & up).

Apocalyptic & Dystopian Classics

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Ray Bradbury (YA BRADBURY, RAY)
Guy is a fireman.  His job is to burn the dangerous books that citizens secretly hide. When he has his own crisis of conscience, where will he go to find safety? (13 & up)

Alas Babylon (1959)
Pat Frank (YA FRANK, PAT)
Tale about survivors of a nuclear attack in Florida as they cope with life after the “bomb”.  (15 and up).

Brave New World (1932)
Aldous Huxley (YA HUXLEY, ALD)
In a future that is highly managed and freewill is not valued, “savage” John, who was raised outside this system, comes into inevitable conflict with society (13 & up).

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
Walter M. Miller (YA MILLER, WAL)
A monk struggles to preserve wisdom in the years following a nuclear holocaust (14 & up).

1984   ( pub in 1948)
George Orwell (YA ORWELL, GEO)
In Oceania, Winston works in the Ministry of Truth to “correct” statements that go against the official government narrative. But Winston starts to doubt that truth and rebels (14 & up).

On the Beach (1957)
Nevil Shute (YA SHUTE, NEV)
Survivors of a nuclear war await their inevitable end as the fallout moves towards Australia from the north (ages 15 & up).

Earth Abides (1949)
George R. Stewart (YA STEWART, GEO)
When a plague kills off most of the population, Ish leads a small group of survivors that try to recreate some sense of community as they return to a hunter gatherer society (14 & up).