Thank you, all, for recommending your favorite children's and YA fiction set after the end of the world. (And thanks especially to bondgwendabond for pointing folks here from her typepad blog.)

I thought I'd compile a list. The ones I've already read are in bold. The ones that aren't in bold are the ones I clearly need to get out and read. If I missed one, or if you have others, let me know and I'll add them! (I'll keep adding books as I find them, too.)

Occasional thoughts on my post-apocalyptic reading are here.

Post-apocalyptic kids' and young adult books:
- The Diary of Pelly D and Cherry Heaven, by L.J. Adlington
- The Compound, by S.A. Bodeen
- The Kindling and the other books of the Fire-Us trilogy, by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher
- The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
- The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Diamond of Darkhold, by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Other Side of the Island, by Allegra Goodman
- Siberia, by Ann Halam
- Hole in the Sky, by Pete Hautmann
- Green Angel, by Alice Hoffman
- The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, by Lois Lowry
- Maddigan's Fantasia, by Margaret Mahy
- Tomorrow, When the War Began and sequels, by John Marsden
- Z for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'Brien
- The Pack, by Tom Pow
- Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex
- How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan
- Bones of Faerie, by Janni Lee Simner
- River Rats, by Caroline Stevermer
- The Green Book, by Jill Patton Walsh
- Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras, by Scott Westerfield
- The Tripods series, by Samuel Youd

Apocalyptic books (set during, but not so much after, the apocalypse):
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- The Carbon Diaries, 2015 and The Carbon Diaries 2017 (forthcoming) by Saci Lloyd
- Peeps, The Last Days, by Scott Westerfeld

Nonfiction:
- The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond

Essays and Articles:
- "I Love the End of the World," by Madeleine Robins
- "What's So Great About the End of the World?" by Janni Lee Simner
- Unhappily Ever After," by Karen Springen (Newsweek article)

Movies:
- Wall-E

Music:
"The Fall," by Peter and the Wolf

Adult books:
- Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
- Magic Bites and Magic Burns, by Ilona Andrews
- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
- The Long Tomorrow, by Leigh Brackett
- World War Z, by Max Brooks
- Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
- The Pesthouse, by Jim Crace
- White Plague, by Frank Herbert
- After London, or Wild England, by Richard Jefferies
- The Stand, by Stephen King
- A Pail of Air, by Fritz Leiber
- The World Ends in Hickory Hollow, by Ardath Mayhar
- Swan Song, by Robert McCammon
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
- Malevil, by Robert Merle
- Emergence, by David R. Palmer
- Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Level 7, by Mordecai Roshwald
- The Last Man, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- On the Beach, by Nevil Shute
- The Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart
- Dies the Fire and sequels, by S.M. Stirling
- The Gate to Women's Country, by Sheri S. Tepper
- The Chrysalids and other books, by John Wyndham

eldritchhobbit's broader list of dystopic fiction, post-apocalyptic and otherwise.