Best Zombie Books

This acclaimed book takes you on a journey across the globe during the Zombie War, featuring firsthand accounts from survivors who witnessed the end of the world. Through interviews with men, women, and children who faced the horrors of the apocalypse, you'll experience the full scope of this epochal event. This chronicle provides a hauntingly immediate look at the human dimension of one of the biggest catastrophes in history, and asks important questions about our capacity for personal detachment from history.

In this thrilling novel, a special girl named Melanie, who possesses extraordinary intellect, attends classes every day in her cell. However, she must face dangerous guards and scientists who study her every move. Melanie dreams of a future beyond her confinement, but her path is filled with unexpected twists and turns. This book is the perfect read for lovers of suspenseful, engrossing novels like those from greats Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.

This gripping young adult novel takes readers on a journey through a dystopian world where simple truths are unraveling. Mary must navigate a world controlled by the Sisterhood and protected by the Guardians while learning about the secrets they hide. When chaos erupts and the fence that surrounds their village is breached, Mary must choose between the life she knows and a future filled with unknown possibilities. Will she find hope in a world consumed by death?

In Warm Bodies, a zombie named "R" lives a monotonous existence until he meets Julie, a living girl who brings color and emotion into his gray world. Through their unlikely bond, R begins to evolve beyond his undead state and desires to protect Julie rather than eat her. This darkly funny and highly original novel explores the power of love and the potential for change, even in the most hopeless of worlds.

A post-apocalyptic America is overrun by zombies. A young girl named Temple wanders through the wasteland haunted by her past and pursued by a killer. As she travels between isolated pockets of surviving civilization and the dangerous exterior world, Temple confronts her demons and searches for redemption. Will she find a way to survive and ultimately find the salvation she seeks?

Surviving the apocalypse doesn't seem so bad to Sloane Price, who's failed to find a reason to keep going after her world collapsed six months ago. But now she's stuck with five other students who actually want to live, and the bid for survival gets more unpredictable and violent every day. As they wait for the barricades to fall, Sloane is forced to witness their changing motives while grappling with the question: when everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

This thrilling novel tells the story of a graphic artist named Clay Riddell who witnesses the sudden emergence of chaos and destruction in the heart of Boston. The novel explores the themes of fear, destruction, and survival as ordinary people become victims of animalistic destruction. The book takes a unique and chilling approach to the apocalypse, asking the question: Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 P.M.?

In a world where a virus has taken over with the unstoppable command to "Feed", bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of uncovering the truth about the infected in this thrilling story set 20 years after the outbreak.

In the aftermath of a devastating pandemic, humanity is divided into the living and the living dead. Zone One follows Mark Spitz, a member of a civilian sweeper unit tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of feral zombies. As he struggles with Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder and the impossible task of accepting a fallen world, things begin to unravel. This chilling yet literary novel by Colson Whitehead offers a haunting portrait of modern civilization's downfall.

This post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested America requires every teenager to find a job by age fifteen or face ration cuts. Benny Imura didn't want to become a zombie hunter like his brother Tom, but he had no choice. What he thought would be a monotonous gig killing zombies became a transformative journey that taught him the true meaning of humanity.