Best Zombie Books/Series?

[Alucard Hellsin]

i don't read many zombie books but one of my favorite books of all time is feed by Mira Grant

 

[Teela Brown]

You might check out Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth. It's the first book of a trilogy. The other two are The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places, which was just released recently.

I typically don't like zombie reads, but these are ok. They were recommended to me by a friend who likes that stuff a lot more than I do. I haven't read the third book but the first one was pretty good. The second one is ok. I honestly couldn't tell you if the books themselves are myeh or if it's just my own personal preferences. You'd have to try them and see if you like them. Good luck!

 

[Bob Gray]

Yep, gotta agree with Brian Keene's The Rising and City of the Dead but don't forget about his novel Dead Sea either. Stephen King's Cell is great. H.P. Lovecraft's short story Herbert West: Re-animator. You should also check out Joe McKinney's Dead City, Apocalypse of the Dead, and Flesh Eaters. Jonathan Maberry's Dead of Night and Patient Zero. John Skipp edited a great set of zombie story anthologies called Book of the Dead, Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2, and Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead.

 

[joanmac]

I liked World War Z, but not as good as Keene's Rising or Ellington's Zombie University, which as a short, but fun, read.

 

[DurzoBlint]

Jonathan Maberry has a YA series Rot and Ruin as well as some older zombie novels. It is his bread and butter. For Star Wars fans Death Troopers is also an option. It was decent as I recall.

 

[owlcroft]

One more notably literate one:

Colson Whitehead's Zone One. (Whitehead is also the author of the too-little-known specfic tale The Intuitionist).

 

[phil_geo]

Zone One is filled with great prose and almost a complete absence of plot. If you expect anything to happen, you are going to be disappointed. However, if you want a thoughful consideration of what people think during the zombie apocalypse, I found it pretty interesting, and the intentially confusing, almost surreal ending was really fun to read.

 

[Staffbearer]

Yeah... I JUST finished reading Zone One. It was the first "zombie" book I have ever read and I found it to be a fascinating take on the whole scheme. Phil is right there isnt really a plot per say but its consistent with the main character's pov.

I liked the philosophical bent of it.. at the beginning I was frustrated because when I think zombie survival I'm used to characters trying to figure out things on a macro-level and so on but as the book progressed I just enjoyed thoughts of Mark Spitz.