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Zombie books I've read

  • 11-08-2014 4:22pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭


    Just a list to track my own reading and an opportunity to discuss
    In no particular order

    Author: Mark Tufo
    Zombie Fallout
    Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family
    Zombie Fallout 3: The End
    Zombie Fallout 4: The End Has Come and Gone
    Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World
    Zombie Fallout 6: 'Till Death Do Us Part
    Zombie Fallout 7: For the Fallen
    Zombie Fallout 7: An Old Beginning


    Author: Max Brooks
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


    Author: Mira Grant
    Feed
    Deadline
    Blackout
    Parasite
    Symbiont

    Author: Jonathan Maberry
    Patient Zero
    Rot and Ruin
    Dust and Decay

    Author: J.L. Bourne
    Day by Day Armageddon
    Beyond Exile
    Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass

    Author: Shane Moore
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Rapture
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Scourge


    Author: Bobby Adair
    Slow Burn Zero Day
    Slow Burn Infected
    Slow Burn Destroyer
    Slow Burn Dead Fire
    Slow Burn Torrent
    Slow Burn Bleed

    Author: Charlie Higson
    The Enemy
    The Dead
    The Fear
    The Sacrafice
    The Fallen
    The Hunted

    Author: Eric Lowther
    Area 187 - Almost Hell

    Author: Adam Baker
    Outpost

    Author: Amanda Hocking
    Hollowland
    Hollowmen


    Author: Annie Walls
    Taking on the Dead
    Controlling the Dead

    Author: T.W. PiperBrook
    Contamination Zero
    Contamination The Onset
    Contamination Crossroads
    Contamination Wasteland


    Author: Peter Meridith

    The Apocalypse The undead World
    The Apocalypse Survivors


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭QuantumP


    Impressive list Wabbit! Do you have a favourite? Or in other words could you recommend me one from that list please :p. (I've read the Max Brooks ones).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Day by Day Armageddon series is great so out of all them Id say that is prob the one to go for.

    Some of the series are a bit young adult but well written, best of those would be "the enemy" series by Higson.

    Best absolutely stupid, not particularly well written but highly entertaining would be the Mark Tufo books.

    I shouldn't have put in the justin cronin books, theyre very good, but more vampire then zombie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    A little Update with A few additions in italics

    Author: Mark Tufo
    Zombie Fallout
    Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family
    Zombie Fallout 3: The End
    Zombie Fallout 4: The End Has Come and Gone
    Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World
    Zombie Fallout 6: 'Till Death Do Us Part
    Zombie Fallout 7: For the Fallen
    Zombie Fallout 7: An Old Beginning


    Author: Max Brooks
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


    Author: Mira Grant
    Feed
    Deadline
    Blackout
    Parasite

    Author: Jonathan Maberry
    Patient Zero
    Rot and Ruin
    Dust and Decay

    Author: J.L. Bourne
    Day by Day Armageddon
    Beyond Exile
    Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass

    Author: Shane Moore
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Rapture
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Scourge


    Author: Bobby Adair
    Slow Burn Zero Day
    Slow Burn Infected
    Slow Burn Destroyer
    Slow Burn Dead Fire
    Slow Burn Torrent

    Author: Charlie Higson
    The Enemy
    The Dead
    The Fear
    The Sacrafice
    The Fallen
    The Hunted

    Author: Eric Lowther
    Area 187 - Almost Hell

    Author: Adam Baker
    Outpost

    Author: Amanda Hocking
    Hollowland
    Hollowmen


    Author: Annie Walls
    Taking on the Dead
    Controlling the Dead


  • Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭anomalous


    Great list and a few I havn't read yet - Ill give them a go
    I read rot and ruin but found it too young adult for me - just thought it was hitting you over the head with the point it was trying to make instead of being a bit more subtle
    I agree about Justin Cronin's books being more vampirish than zombie but they are well worth the read for the post apocalyptic feel they have, and im looking forward to the next one coming out
    I was pleasantly surprised by the Mira grant books and thought they were well done - I liked her take on the zombie apocalypse
    I read White Flag of the dead and some of the sequels by Joseph Talluto - they were ok and worth a look but I thought he fudged the 'rules' whenever it suited him in the sequels but I liked the first book


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Hi Anomalous List Updated, but on the Mira grant books, I just read Symbiont and TBH It was absolute dirt. I found it an absolute chore to read and I really liked the other books.

    I'm on Peter Merediths The Apocalypse series and am reasonably enjoying them. I also read books 1-4 of T W Piperbrooks Contamination books. Ill read the rest of the series to finish it off but they're pretty average and forgettable.

    The sixth book in Bobby Adair's Slow Burn series was also just ok. The series should have ended there but the author bottled it at the end and left it open for more books.

    Author: Mark Tufo
    Zombie Fallout
    Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family
    Zombie Fallout 3: The End
    Zombie Fallout 4: The End Has Come and Gone
    Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World
    Zombie Fallout 6: 'Till Death Do Us Part
    Zombie Fallout 7: For the Fallen
    Zombie Fallout 7: An Old Beginning


    Author: Max Brooks
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


    Author: Mira Grant
    Feed
    Deadline
    Blackout
    Parasite
    Symbiont

    Author: Jonathan Maberry
    Patient Zero
    Rot and Ruin
    Dust and Decay

    Author: J.L. Bourne
    Day by Day Armageddon
    Beyond Exile
    Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass

    Author: Shane Moore
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Rapture
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Scourge


    Author: Bobby Adair
    Slow Burn Zero Day
    Slow Burn Infected
    Slow Burn Destroyer
    Slow Burn Dead Fire
    Slow Burn Torrent
    Slow Burn Bleed

    Author: Charlie Higson
    The Enemy
    The Dead
    The Fear
    The Sacrafice
    The Fallen
    The Hunted

    Author: Eric Lowther
    Area 187 - Almost Hell

    Author: Adam Baker
    Outpost

    Author: Amanda Hocking
    Hollowland
    Hollowmen


    Author: Annie Walls
    Taking on the Dead
    Controlling the Dead

    Author: T.W. PiperBrook
    Contamination Zero
    Contamination The Onset
    Contamination Crossroads
    Contamination Wasteland


    Author: Peter Meridith

    The Apocalypse The undead World
    The Apocalypse Survivors


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,751 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    i can edit your OP to update this if you like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    that would be great thanks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,751 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    done :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭anomalous


    I had only read the first 3 of Mira Grant's (Feed, Deadline, Blackout) I didn't actually know there were more and even though you said that the last one wasn't great I will probably read it - I always have to know what happens :-P
    I'm going to try to find some of the other titles as well and read them but the second hand bookshop I go to always has the zombie books in the teen romance section!!!! and I think that is why I haven't read any in a while - I don't want people to think I'm browsing Twilight!!! :-P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    parasite and symbiont are a separate series to the news flesh series. I thought the kellis amberlee virus was probably the best thought out virus of any book yet, even better than max brooks solanum.

    Parasite and symbiont are more about a parasite that takes over the host body and turns them into mindless zombie like creatures if they don't do it right and take over cleanly.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    I'm actually looking for a Zombie series to read but keep forgetting to look up any. :o

    To date all I've read are the Resident Evil books and The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Your suggestions will more than likely help, so thanks for that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Best so far of these is either the mira grants newsflesh series ( self published, So you have to forgive the writing for what is a great story) or Bournes day by day Armageddon series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    I'll try to start with Mira Grant then, as it's a longer series and I'm looking for something I can *ahem* sink my teeth into.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Only ones I've read are the Walking dead: rise of the governor , road to woodbury and the fall of the governor part 1 and 2 and the the words of their roaring by matthew smith


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭geecee


    No D.J Molles?
    Suggest you get reading "The Remaining" series asap!
    http://www.amazon.com/D.J.-Molles/e/B007QPRLYA


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Jaysus!

    I've a lot of zombie novels to catch up on :D


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,825 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    Jake Bible
    Z-burbia
    Z-Burbia 2: Parkway to Hell
    Z-Burbia 3: Estate of the Dead
    Z-Burbia 4: Cannibal Road
    Z-Burbia 5: The Bleeding Heartland

    Sean Liebling
    Blood, Brains, and Bullets
    Legacy of The Living(Blood, Brains, and Bullets Book 2)
    Reaper: No Mercy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    geecee wrote: »
    No D.J Molles?
    Suggest you get reading "The Remaining" series asap!
    http://www.amazon.com/D.J.-Molles/e/B007QPRLYA

    He is next on the to read list when I finish the Peter Meridith's "The Apocalypse" series.


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭paradisepaddy


    A.R. Wise - Deadlocked series? Really enjoyed reading about the initial outbreak in first book.

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13371322-deadlocked


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,825 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    Mountain Man series by Keith C. Blackmore


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭jennyjoy


    I really enjoyed World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    I have been listening to a lot of these on audio, during work drives...anything is better than newstalk or rte1.... Come to think of it they sound like the living dead, but I digress..

    Also hope it's okay to post this here, if not I will repost on a thread of its own.

    The Mira grant newsflesh series is done very well on audio. Completely different take on the genre, a welcome change.

    The zombie fallout series,although not exclusively zombies, has one of the best voice overs for audio books I have heard in a long time. They are also quite funny in places.

    Dj moles the remaining is also excellent series. Not shambling walkers but a great listen to. Actually looking forward to his next one due in May this year I think. Also great voice over.

    Zero day, great story but sweet baby Jesus, they must of picked a guy high on crack to read it. Think speed reading. Gave up on that. By way of example, the last line of the book (can't fully recall it now as I was laughing so much) was, say, 'and the zombie followed the hero. The end.'. That was read as andthezombiefollowedtheherotheend...I kid you not. The whole audio book is like that and it's a shame because it sounds good.

    Day by day Armageddon : I just started that this week and is well done in audio format.

    World war z is fantastic in audio. Particularly love the part done by none other than mark hamill and he is fantastic in it. Having also read the book, they do a truly excellent job on it.

    If anyone has any other audio book recommendations I would love to hear about them, assuming I have not derailed the thread of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,751 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    Hamill is a really decent voice actor, i listened to WWZ audio book one insomniac night.. it didnt help, it didnt help at all :D

    I believe he voice the Joker in a recent batman game too, plus he's gonan be Luke again in the new SW film/s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Zone One, by Colston Whitehead. Chilling.


  • Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Vernonymous


    I've read The Panama Laugh by Thomas S. Roche


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    I've read The Panama Laugh by Thomas S. Roche

    is this available on e-book?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Finished books 3 and 4 of Meridiths The Apocalypse The undead World series and just started Molles 'The Remaining' book 1. TBH so far the main character isn't at all believable with his super soldier hero complex, but I'm only a few chapters in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    I'm on book 2 (Audio book) of Alaskan undead by Sean Schubert Pretty good actually.

    Wabbit ears it is worth sticking with the remaining imho, it does sound like he is a super soldier and he is until he meets zombies...lol...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    The reviews of Alaskan undead aren't very positive, basically saying its another self-publish that really needed to be edited properly.


    Finished the first book of molles 'remaining' series and am good bit into the second. Honestly? truly awful books. Its not really an apocalypse book at all, its a US marine circle-jerk fantasy. Ill finish the series as much as it pains me to do so.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    The reviews of Alaskan undead aren't very positive, basically saying its another self-publish that really needed to be edited properly.


    Finished the first book of molles 'remaining' series and am good bit into the second. Honestly? truly awful books. Its not really an apocalypse book at all, its a US marine circle-jerk fantasy. Ill finish the series as much as it pains me to do so.

    Oh crap, I thought the remaining was pretty good. Sorry for the bum steer there.

    As for Alaskan undead, just keep in mind I'm on audio books so that may hide a multitude of sins! It's a little repetitive in the odd place, he had an army segment left hanging at least so far but overall I like it...but then again I thought the remaining was good...lol...so you have been warned!!!!!!


    Also FYI...I have watched nazi zombies at the centre of the earth and love pontypool...so perhaps my recommendations are a little suspect in this genre... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Iron sky, dead snow you name it I love bad movies. Mark tufos books are like that, awful but brilliant because they don't take themselves seriously at all.

    The molles books aren't technically awful in themselves. They're quite well written and paced. It's just that the whole zombie thing is completely secondary to the fact he is a trained marine or ranger or whatever yay America super soldier he is. The whole zombie plague explanation is nothing more than a few weak sentences about a bacteria that eats the brain in an inexplicably very specific pattern.

    Day by day armageddon is a vastly superior series with a similar military author and military viewpoint so if you liked molles you'd love that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    Just finished arisen 1,2,3 and it's good. Basically England is left, everywhere else is z land. The author sure does love his navy seals and weapons. If that not your thing I would give it a miss. Some original ideas in it which is nice to see.

    Currently listening to black tide rising. The audio book quality is quite poor and it feels like the way it was written, bouncing around from para to para across different people makes it difficult to follow in audio format. Not great in my humble opinion.

    Keep in mind all the above is in audio format.


  • Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Hero777


    Funny i have read all par the most recent of the Arrisen Series.

    My first Zombie series, and i am enjoying them.

    To be fair you are right about being a bit jumpy in a few places, i did go through a "quiet time phase" where i actually left the books down and didn't read for nearly 2 months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Got through most of Molles 'Remaining', still have a one more to read, I think, Had to take a little break from it.

    I also read ZA Rechts MorningStar Strain, In my opinion, this is one of the very best Zombie series I've read in a long time. I'm really really enjoying it. It what 'The remaining' could have been if the main character wasn't such a superhero. I'm on the last pages of the 3rd book and then will read the last Remaining book and update the full list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Some Updates on My Reading, I read the Z.A Rechts "Morningstar strain" series, Finished the "The Enemy" series by Charlie Higson and also Finally finished the D.J. Molles "The Remaining" series. Almost Forgot, Also read Books 3 and 4 in Peter Meridiths "Apocalypse" series

    Gonna have to read books 7 and 8 of the Slow Burn Books by Bobby Adair, The next Mira Grant Parasitology book, The 9th mark Tufo Zombie Fallout book, The 3rd Shane Moore Apocalypse Of Enoch book, T.W. PiperBrook's Contaminatioon 4, 5 and 6. and Finally Peter Meridiths Apocalypse series 5 and 6. Ah well, Lots of dark winter nights ahead..

    Newly added to list in italics

    Author: Mark Tufo
    Zombie Fallout
    Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family
    Zombie Fallout 3: The End
    Zombie Fallout 4: The End Has Come and Gone
    Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World
    Zombie Fallout 6: 'Till Death Do Us Part
    Zombie Fallout 7: For the Fallen
    Zombie Fallout 8: An Old Beginning


    Author: Max Brooks
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


    Author: Mira Grant
    Feed
    Deadline
    Blackout
    Parasite
    Symbiont

    Author: Jonathan Maberry
    Patient Zero
    Rot and Ruin
    Dust and Decay
    Fire and Ash

    Author: J.L. Bourne
    Day by Day Armageddon
    Beyond Exile
    Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass


    Author: Shane Moore
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Rapture
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Scourge


    Author: Bobby Adair
    Slow Burn Zero Day
    Slow Burn Infected
    Slow Burn Destroyer
    Slow Burn Dead Fire
    Slow Burn Torrent
    Slow Burn Bleed

    Author: Charlie Higson
    The Enemy
    The Dead
    The Fear
    The Sacrafice
    The Fallen
    The Hunted
    The End

    Author: Eric Lowther
    Area 187 - Almost Hell

    Author: Adam Baker
    Outpost

    Author: Amanda Hocking
    Hollowland
    Hollowmen


    Author: Annie Walls
    Taking on the Dead
    Controlling the Dead

    Author: T.W. PiperBrook
    Contamination Zero
    Contamination The Onset
    Contamination Crossroads
    Contamination Wasteland

    Author: Peter Meridith
    The Apocalypse The undead World
    The Apocalypse Survivors
    The Apocalypse Outcasts
    The Apocalypse Fugitives

    Author: D.J. Molles
    The Remaining
    Aftermath
    Refugees
    Fractured
    Allegiance
    Extinction


    Author: Z. A. Recht
    Plague of the Dead
    Survivors
    Thunder and Ashes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    So Finally Finished Peter Merediths Apocalypse Series. It was a bit of fun and worth a read. One of the main characters, A 7 year old genius with multiple personality disorder is certainly a lot of fun!

    Currently reading a book called The Orphans: Origins by Mike Evans. Don't read this book. I know there are some bad books out there and a lot of muck get self published but I think this book is actually making me stupider. Seriously, the book reads like it was actually written by a semi-literate 13 year old who has absolutely no understanding of vitamins or what the word Viral actually means. I will finish it, but if I'm found catatonic and dribbling all over myself, you all know its because my brain couldn't handle any more and imploded.



    Newly added to list in italics

    Author: Mark Tufo
    Zombie Fallout
    Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family
    Zombie Fallout 3: The End
    Zombie Fallout 4: The End Has Come and Gone
    Zombie Fallout 5: Alive In A Dead World
    Zombie Fallout 6: 'Till Death Do Us Part
    Zombie Fallout 7: For the Fallen
    Zombie Fallout 8: An Old Beginning


    Author: Max Brooks
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


    Author: Mira Grant
    Feed
    Deadline
    Blackout
    Parasite
    Symbiont

    Author: Jonathan Maberry
    Patient Zero
    Rot and Ruin
    Dust and Decay
    Fire and Ash

    Author: J.L. Bourne

    Day by Day Armageddon
    Beyond Exile
    Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass


    Author: Shane Moore
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Rapture
    The Apocalypse of Enoch: Scourge


    Author: Bobby Adair
    Slow Burn Zero Day
    Slow Burn Infected
    Slow Burn Destroyer
    Slow Burn Dead Fire
    Slow Burn Torrent
    Slow Burn Bleed

    Author: Charlie Higson
    The Enemy
    The Dead
    The Fear
    The Sacrafice
    The Fallen
    The Hunted
    The End

    Author: Eric Lowther
    Area 187 - Almost Hell

    Author: Adam Baker
    Outpost

    Author: Amanda Hocking
    Hollowland
    Hollowmen


    Author: Annie Walls
    Taking on the Dead
    Controlling the Dead

    Author: T.W. PiperBrook
    Contamination Zero
    Contamination The Onset
    Contamination Crossroads
    Contamination Wasteland

    Author: Peter Meridith

    The Apocalypse The undead World
    The Apocalypse Survivors
    The Apocalypse Outcasts
    The Apocalypse Fugitives
    The Apocalypse Renegades
    The Apocalypse Exile
    The Apocalypse War


    Author: D.J. Molles
    The Remaining
    Aftermath
    Refugees
    Fractured
    Allegiance
    Extinction


    Author: Z. A. Recht
    Plague of the Dead
    Survivors
    Thunder and Ashes


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