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Essential Zombie Reads
The Zombie genre is exploding. Read these essential Zombie books before the apocalypse.
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We Got Zombies on the Lawn Again, Ma (Ax Handel's Special Zombie Notebooks, #1)
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Donnie Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 127 ratings
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First Light (The Zombie Prophecies, #1)
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Adam Sigrist (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 700,
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7 people voted
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 559,543 ratings
score: 593,
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6 people voted
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Season of the Dead
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Lucia Adams (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 500,
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5 people voted
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Khost
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Vincent Hobbes (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1)
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Diana Rowland (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 13,642 ratings
score: 398,
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4 people voted
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Zombie Fallout (Zombie Fallout, #1)
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Mark Tufo (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 12,917 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 105,264 ratings
score: 198,
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Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun
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Armand Rosamilia (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Dead Things
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Matt Darst (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 379 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
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Seth Grahame-Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 141,631 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Raising Stony Mayhall
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Daryl Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Dead Chaos (Dead Chaos #1)
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April Brookshire (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 202 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Undead (Undead, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
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X
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3.62 avg rating — 634 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Undying (Undying, #1)
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Valerie Grosjean (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 100,
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Braineater Jones
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Stephen Kozeniewski (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 529 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Undead: Book One, Overview
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Michael Pugh (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Sleep With One Eye Open
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Beau Johnston (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Zombies from the Pulps!: Twenty Classic Stories of the Walking Dead
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Jeffrey Shanks (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 100,
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Bad Blood (Battle of the Undead, #1)
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Nicky Peacock (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 100,
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The End Games
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3.49 avg rating — 3,278 ratings
score: 100,
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Dead Rage: A Zombie Apocalypse
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Nicholas Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 285 ratings
score: 100,
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6th Horseman
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Anderson Atlas (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 100,
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Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead.
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Chris Pauls (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 2,347 ratings
score: 100,
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This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Keith Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
score: 100,
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Welcome to Romero Park (Night of the Victorian Dead, #1)
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Amber Michelle Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 100,
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The Living Dead
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3.78 avg rating — 3,386 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Irish Epidemic (Weep, #1)
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Eoin Brady (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 534 ratings
score: 100,
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Felix Boni and the Reanimation of Craig Rotter
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Caspian Sireno (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 100,
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Ashes (Ashes Trilogy, #1)
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Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 25,757 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Ghoul Archipelago
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Stephen Kozeniewski (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 112 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Ground Zero: A Zombie Apocalypse
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Nicholas Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 744 ratings
score: 99,
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Sleep With One Eye Open: Ghost
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Beau Johnston (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Handling the Undead
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3.49 avg rating — 13,371 ratings
score: 99,
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Anti-Sentient
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Linda J. Butler (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Dying to Live (Dying to Live, #1)
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Kim Paffenroth (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 3,204 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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At Hell's Gates
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3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 98,
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Die Trying
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Nicholas Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 683 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test, #1)
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 15,109 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Book of All Flesh
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3.89 avg rating — 153 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Beyond Isaiah
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Paul S. Huggins (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Zombie War: An account of the zombie apocalypse that swept across America
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Nicholas Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Origins of Evil (At Hell's Gates #2)
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Devan Sagliani (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 97,
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The Reapers are the Angels (Reapers, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 12,487 ratings
score: 97,
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Song of the Living Dead
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3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Autumn (Autumn, #1)
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David Moody (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6,997 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Fat Zombie: Stories of Unlikely Survivors from the Apocalypse
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Dead City (Dead World, #1)
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Joe McKinney (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 6,568 ratings
score: 95,
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