Reddit mentions of The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

The Passage by Justin Cronin starts out with the collapse but the second book is set further in the future.

Fellow fan of series here! Let me see...

Young Adult
Percy Jackson series is fun (and finished, too, I think).
Artemis Fowl series isn't quite as good as Percy Jackson IMHO, but it's got a following.

Fantasy
Harry Dresden series This is one of my favorites. Harry is Chicago's only professional wizard. There are a ton of these books and they are still going strong.
Game of Thrones These are great...but unfinished. If you watch the show, reading the books does help you get even more out of the story, I think.
Wheel of Time Another good series. There is a LOT of this series and it's finished. (Thank you, Brandon Sanderson!)
Mistborn Speaking of Brandon Sanderson... This one is very good. I highly recommend reading the Mistborn books before trying the Stormlight Archive, but only because as good as Mistborn is, Stormlight Archive is even better.
Stormlight Archive Amazing. Man, these are good. The series isn't finished, but the two books that are available are some of my favorites ever.
Kingkiller Chronicles I loved the first book. I could not freakin' believe I enjoyed the second one even more. The third one is still pending.
Temeraire Dragons in Napoleonic times. Super cool premise! This one is not finished (I don't think, anyway).
Gentlemen Bastards Con men in a fantasy realm. It's pretty light on the fantasy elements. Very light, I'd say. I'd also say that it has some of the very best swearing that I've ever come across. :D

Scifi
Old Man's War I'm almost finished this one--it's amazing!

Horror/Thriller
Passage Trilogy I've heard these described as vampire books...maybe zombie books... It's apocalyptic for sure. Great books!

Mysteries
Amelia Peabody Egyptology + murder mysteries. Super fun, but trust me...go with the audiobooks for these. They are best when they are performed.
Stephanie Plum Total popcorn reads. If that's your thing, shut off your brain and just enjoy.
Walt Longmire These get particularly good as it goes along. The main character is a sheriff in modern day Wyoming. (Side note: The TV show is also great--just don't expect them to stick to the books.)

Graphic Novels (Everything recommended can be gotten in a "book" format instead of only in comic form, in case that matters. I've gotten most of these from my local library.)
Locke & Key Eerie as crap. Love the art! This one is on-going.
Y: The Last Man All the men on the planet drop dead in a day...except for Yorrick. REALLY good. This is the series that got me reading graphic novels. Plus, it's finished!
Walking Dead I am not a zombie fan...but I like these. They're not done, but I've read up through volume 22 and am still enjoying them.

Other
OutlanderI have no idea how to categorize these or even give a description that does them justice. I refused to pick it up for AGES because it sounded like a bodice-ripper romance and that's not my bag. But these are good!

I hope there's something in there that'll do for you. Have fun and read on!

Edit: Apparently, I need to practice formatting. :/
Edit 2: I forgot to add the Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentlemen Bastards #1).

I love post-apocalyptic movies and books. I really enjoyed Justin Cronin's The Passage, as well as the follow-up The Twelve. Looking forward to the conclusion of the trilogy.

Try The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin: http://www.amazon.com/The-Passage-Novel-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345528174 (not a referral link)

Going to be a movie...third book coming out soon

While I haven't read it myself, I've heard comparisons between The Stand and The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Might want to check it out.

Well . . . if you're looking at a book simply as a collection of text, I too have never feared a line of text. What books allow, is a slow building of fear that require quite a bit of character development. I don't read horror novels waiting to be frightened, and truthfully read very little horror. The fear just happens. To be honest, it's a different type of fear - more of an uneasy feeling really. Certainly, a book can't have, what my son calls, "The scary jump out scenes". But if we exchange the term fear with edgy, here are a list of my favorite books with an "Edge":

[The Passage] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Passage-Novel-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345528174)
[The Terror] (http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Novel-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316008079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404481514&sr=1-1&keywords=terror)
The Stand
Carrion Comfort
Desperation
I am Legend
The Sparrow
Night
Frankenstein
All Quite on the Western Front
Hunger
Blood Meridian
Watchers
The Minus Man

In no particular order - Not the usual suggestions either. Hope it helps, and happy reading!

Though I usually say IT to this question, I want to give a different answer. The passage a book about vampires and government conspiracies, it's good stuff.

I'm assuming you've read World War Z, right?

You should also check out the Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant. Kind of a fresh take on the way it handles zombies, in my opinion.

You should also read The Passage: A Novel, by Justin Cronin - which I just found out is going to be a trilogy and that the second one comes out October 16th!

Sounds a lot like the second part of The Passage.

Dead Heat by Del Stone, Jr It's like Walking Dead + Sons of Anarchy!
The Passage by Justin Cronin Excellent and bleak post-viral apocalypse.

I just saw Warm Bodies, so I'm not actually in it to win it, but I wanted to share.

THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin. And its sequel, The Twelve. It is really fucking fantastic. I remember walking into a bookstore to buy the sequel and the guy working there and I having this communal moment of, 'Oh my god, this is the best.' The third book is coming out soon. Beautifully written (it's not just genre fiction but could stand alone as 'literature', if those labels mean anything) and so many OH MY GOD moments. It's a sort of vampire/zombie series, but so sophisticated, and so absorbing, it kind of defies that genre. They are making it into a series of movies soon too so you can get a headstart on everyone else.

Good point but I didn't really say anything. Virals and a little girl. Can read that on the back cover. Or Amazon's description of the book. Or elsewhere in this thread.

Fixed it just for you though.

Book ["The Passage: A Novel"] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Passage-Novel-Justin-Cronin/dp/0345528174/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1YN8J34LXV9BW&coliid=I3GIL3OYQJITH0)

This can be found on my 10 and under list!