ZOMBIES!
You can never have too many in your life unless they are chasing you
for your brains of course...Anyway, here is my updated list of great
zombie books I've read and series that I've started.
1) Bonnie Dee-After The End
Zombies are on the
loose and the world is falling apart. A group of strangers on a
Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival. The group
follows the lead of Ari Brenner, a young man who doesn’t recognize his
own leadership qualities and believes they follow him simply because he
wears an army uniform. Lila Teske, a college student studying
philosophy, finds her non-violent beliefs tested in the crucible of a
zombie attack. With the city’s
infrastructure down and communication with the outside world curtailed
the survivors head toward the nearest marina. When they meet a lab tech
who may have a solution to the virus, they know his safety is paramount
and it’s more important than ever that they get off the island. But
zombies aren’t the only danger that impedes them on their perilous
journey.
2) Lee Dunter-Crowded Yet Desolate
Ryan
returns home from a short trip, his wife Deborah returning from her
night out at a local festival with friends. When he wakes up the next
day, his wife is a zombie but with no signs of being bitten, and the
streets still filled with party-goers who are about to become a buffet
for the growing groups of zombies. Teaming up with brothers Joe and Roe,
they then join another small group of survivors inside a gun store and
plan how to get out of the city to a safer place. Having to travel on
foot to a smaller town may not be the safest option with zombies and
armed thugs to deal with but it is their only choice.
3) Rhiannon Frater-The Last Bastion of the Living
Maria
is a tough soldier, one of the many who protect the Bastion, the final
walled city still to stand after the zombie apocalypse. The raging
Inferi have broken through the outer gate and up to the inner walls but
the only way the people can survive is to close the outer gate and kill
every zombie in the valley. Maria is asked to take part in this new
offensive and happily volunteers, as life in the Bastion is dark and
grim with blackouts, crime and few pleasures, other than being with
Dwayne. She has no idea that the most important details of the mission
have been kept from her, things she would never have agreed to and now
it is too late to change her mind. Her only hope of salvation now is to
complete the deadly mission.
4) Micah Gurley-The Road To Macon (Macon Saga #1)
After realizing his
dream of teaching history in college, Kyle Small gets laid off and takes
a job as a heavily armed security guard. He's just returning from his
Thanksgiving holiday in which his brother Abe has visited him, when an
epidemic strikes the plant that he works at. Kyle must get back
to his brother and then find refuge in a old Civil War fort for
protection. Along the way they collect others and face the rising
problems as they take the road to Macon.
5) Shaun Harbinger-Rain (Undead Rain #1)
Four
friends are on a hike in the Welsh mountains when the zombie apocalypse
occurs. All they can think of is to get away from the Army forces who
are detaining all civilians in camps until they see who turns, and of
course the deadly zombies. The plan is to get to the coast to find a
boat and safely plan what they are going to do next.
6) Michael Stephen Fuchs & Glynn James-Fortress Britain (Arisen #1)
Britain
is the only country who seems to have the zombie apocalypse under some
kind of control, due to a terrorist attack shutting their airspace to
aircraft just as the virus went global. The Channel Tunnel has been
blocked off and the military have all but a few random zombies taken
care of who are wandering the countryside. The US and UK military launch
raids to gather vital supplies from around Europe in special forces
missions. But things are about to go very wrong when something escapes
the Tunnel...
7) Craig Jones-Outbreak (Zombie Apocalypse #1)
It begins with a flight into Heathrow Airport. It ends up at Matt Hawkins' front gate, in a crowd of savage, lumbering bodies. An epidemic is sweeping Great Britain, transforming countless victims
into mindless predators and forcing Matt and his little brother, Danny,
out of the safety of their late parents' privileged legacy and into a
rapidly changing world. Every day is vital. Every action counts. As
the brothers make alliances and learn to defend themselves and their
home against an unthinkable enemy, choices are made, some with
devastating consequences. In the midst of this nightmarish fight to
survive, Matt begins to learn what is truly important to him, and
exactly what it means to be human.
8) Stephen Knight-The Gathering Dead (Gathering Dead #1)
The
zombie apocalypse has hit New York and the military are evacuating the
important people while the ordinary people are left to the mercy of the
zombies. McDaniels has two teams in two helicopters to evacuate a
scientist and his daughter who may have the basis for a cure. When one
helicopter is overrun and the other crash lands, the survivors barricade
themselves into a building with a few civilians to wait for help to
arrive. But the zombies outside include the other half of the team and
they are plotting a way to get inside...
9) Courtney Konstantin-Prepared
Alex
grew up in a prepper household with a paranoid father, and the lessons
he taught her will prove to be vital when the zombie apocalypse arrives
on her doorstep. Her husband Blake returns home from a business trip,
bitten and infected, unaware that he will soon turn and try to attack
Alex, their kids and their housekeeper. Alex knows her family compound
is the only safe place to go but first she has to gather supplies and
then try to find a way out of the city which is being guarded by
military checkpoints.
10) Robert McCrohan-Pandora
Comet
Pandora hits Mars and explodes into dust in Earth's atmosphere, causing
sickness, first in Asia and then across the world as it infects the
whole atmosphere. 30% of the human population are ill with flu like
symptoms but most recover. Then Pandora mutates and everyone who
recovered gets sick and begin to die. But they are not going to stay
dead and suddenly Pandora has caused the start of a zombie apocalypse.
I've not read any of these but you are definitely my go-to for zombie recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI need to get reading more zombies for a new list to share next year but I still don't seem to want to read any horror. It's frustrating!
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