If what gripped you in Monument 14 was Dean and the others inventorying the Greenway, setting rules with Niko, and fending off outsiders while that chemical spill warped people by blood type, you’ll click with Alex’s trek in Ashfall. After the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, Alex must improvise heat, food, and safety—bartering, breaking into abandoned homes, and facing violent strangers—much like the Greenway crew’s day-by-day triage. It’s relentless, personal survival with escalating stakes, the same pulse you felt when the kids debated who could leave and who had to stay behind.

If you were drawn to how Dean, Astrid, Josie, Niko, Brayden, and the little kids formed a fragile order in the Greenway—complete with power clashes between Niko’s rules and Jake’s recklessness—Gone delivers that ensemble electricity in spades. When everyone over 15 vanishes, Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Edilio struggle to lead a town of scared kids as new threats mount. The same volatile group dynamics, competing agendas, and tough calls that fractured the Monument 14 crew fuel every chapter here.

If being sealed inside the Greenway—boarding doors, rationing supplies, and watching panic rise during the chemical disaster—had you hooked, the quarantined mall in No Safety in Numbers will hit the same nerve. A deadly pathogen locks down shoppers and staff; multiple teens narrate as the food dwindles, tempers flare, and security breaks down. It mirrors the early Monument 14 urgency when the kids realized outside help wasn’t coming and they had to police themselves or fall apart.

If you connected with Dean’s awkward crush on Astrid evolving into real responsibility—taking night watches, protecting the little ones, and making painful calls—Miranda’s transformation in Life As We Knew It will resonate. When the moon shifts and the world slides into catastrophe, she journals the shift from typical teen worries to scrounging food, caring for siblings, and facing loss. It’s that same coming-of-age under pressure you felt when the Monument 14 kids had to decide who risked the road and who guarded the store.

If the rapid-fire pace of Monument 14—from the bus crash to the chemical fallout, the looter standoff, and the split-second decision to send some kids out—kept you flipping pages, Legend runs just as hot. Day and June dodge soldiers, break into high-security facilities, and uncover a government cover-up with cliffhangers that hit like the Greenway crew’s escalating emergencies. You’ll get that same breathless momentum, with every choice tightening the noose.