Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry

Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games

Joyce Carol Oates: We Were the Mulvaneys

Kristen Cashore: Fire

Mette Ivie Harrison: The Monster in Me

Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi: The Monster of Florence

Amy Goldman Koss: Poison Ivy

Jay Rayner: The Man Who Ate the World In Search of the Perfect Dinner

Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Zombie book.
The first one I've read...are they all so depressing?
The main character whines an enormous amount, which is the only thing that may connect this text to teenagers, but since it is the majority of the text, it should be quite popular. The body count is hefty, and it is action-packed, but somewhere around page 187 (of 300+) I wondered if the bad things would EVER end.