If you were gripped by Denise negotiating shelters, blackouts, and scarce rations after the comet strike—and her single-minded push to keep her family together—you’ll recognize that same visceral, practical survival drive here. In Life As We Knew It, Miranda chronicles, meal by meal and winter storm by winter storm, how her family endures when a meteor knocks the moon off course. Like Denise scavenging for supplies and weighing impossible choices, Miranda’s diary captures the small, relentless decisions that mean the difference between hope and despair.

If what stayed with you was how closely On the Edge of Gone focuses on Denise’s routines, caretaking, and fragile connections—whether in crowded shelters or aboard a ship—Station Eleven offers that same tender, close-up gaze. It traces the Traveling Symphony and the Museum of Civilization, showing how art, memory, and small acts of kindness hold people together after collapse, much like the quiet, human choices Denise makes while the world ends around her.

If you appreciated how the comet in On the Edge of Gone frames Denise’s family, identity, and coping strategies rather than turning into technobabble, you’ll click with the gentle, haunting speculation here. Julia narrates how the Earth’s days begin to stretch, and the book lingers—like Denise’s story—on routines, friendships, and the way communities fray and adapt when the rules of daily life quietly come undone.

If Denise’s perspective—an autistic, biracial teen navigating catastrophe, bargaining for safety, and clinging to the people she loves—meant a lot to you, The Sound of Stars offers a similarly empathetic lens. Ellie, a Black teen in a city under alien occupation, risks everything to safeguard banned books and forges an unexpected bond with a rebel alien who loves music. Like Denise’s hard-won trust and resourcefulness, Ellie’s resistance is powered by identity, art, and care.

If the parts of On the Edge of Gone that hit hardest were Denise negotiating for berths on a generation ship and confronting rules about who is ‘useful’ enough to be saved, this will resonate deeply. Aster lives on the Matilda, a generation ship stratified by brutal hierarchies; medical care, food, and freedom are rationed by power. As with the shipboard gatekeeping Denise faces, every choice here asks who gets dignity, who gets passage, and what justice looks like when resources—and futures—are controlled.