The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

This is a dark and gritty post-apocalyptic tale. The protagonist is a nurse working in a bay area hospital when a world-wide pandemic breaks out. Seemingly everyone gets sick and few people survive. Like Captain Trips in The Stand or The Georgia Flu in Station Eleven, the fast-moving virus in this book decimates nearly the entire population of the planet. Hardest hit are women. Not only does the disease leave few females alive, the ones that do survive can no longer bear children. The human species is seemingly doomed. To make matters even worse, most of the remaining men form enclaves and enslave any women they can catch. Written as a series of journal entries, with several omniscient-view asides to fill in a few blanks, the book tells how our female protagonist navigates this scary new world.

Get this book. While it is likely to keep you up at night, it's short so it should only be for a couple of nights. If you are 16 or under, do not get this book. It is not for you. It's probably better that you re-read The Hunger Games or Divergent instead.