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Can anyone recommend a good zombie/post apocalyptic book?

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Kasterborous · 22/10/2014 15:30

Just that really. I enjoyed The Day of the Triffids and The Enemy series by Charlie Higson.

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akaWisey · 22/01/2015 18:26

On The Beach by Nevil Shute is a post-apocalyptic novel written in the early 60s so the language is dated but it's very good if upsetting...

nocutsnobuttsnococonuts · 21/01/2015 07:45

I liked warm bodies by issac marion - book is much better than the film they brought out. its a kind of zombie love story...

SolidGoldBrass · 10/01/2015 14:56

Station Eleven is OK but the ending gets a bit 'meh'; also I think there's some fairly lazy writing involved.
World War Z is excellent.
Also, try Simon Clark's Blood Crazy, which is borderline YA/horror: all of a sudden everyone over 20 starts trying to kill everyone under 20 - specifically, parents start attacking and killing their children, so all the kids and teenagers have to run away and hole up in communities etc. Which rapidly go all Lord Of The Flies. Clark also wrote another apocalypse/dystopia called King Blood, which doesn't have zombies but is equally good reading (climate change goes beserk and civilisation disintegrates in a matter of days...)

StrattersThePreciousSnowflake · 10/01/2015 14:48

Another vote for The Strain series, and the tv adaptation is fantastic.

brianm2211 · 10/01/2015 00:20

I just read Zombie Books by Bart Gnarly and it is freaking awesome!

Here is the description on Amazon
Zombie Books is the incredible post apocalyptic story of Kyle Moore. Kyle is a 20 year old high school dropout living in Cheney Washington. He is considered a no good loser by the other residents until after the zombie apocalypse where he is one of the few remaining survivors. Contrary to popular belief he is very smart and has mad survival skills which help him thrive in a very dangerous new world. Kyle Moore becomes a zombie hunter who is determined to rid his town of all the undead and becomes the protector and local hero of the last people left alive there.
amzn.to/1mDHCGH

Meerka · 24/11/2014 20:14

Bought World War Z on the basis of this and another thread's recommendation and was startled by how good it was. Read it twice in succession, then listened to the audio book. Film was nowhere near as good.

DustBunnyFarmer · 23/11/2014 16:33

If you haven't read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, don't unless you are prepared for the grimmest book ever. You can't unread that stuff.

Never a truer word written. I read this years ago and I still haven't shaken it off completely.

MrsRedWhite214 · 23/11/2014 16:21

Another recommendation for Station Eleven from me. Loved it!

MehsMum · 31/10/2014 22:46

No Zombies:
Earth Abides by George R Stewart
One of the first post-apocalypse novels.

LoveWillTearUsApart · 31/10/2014 16:15

I had no idea The Strain had been made into a TV series. I really enjoyed the books - at some points, given they were written by Guillermo del Toro, they did have the feel of a screenplay Grin
I don't think you can get Watch on Freeview, can you? Might have to see if I can get hold of it on itunes Smile

Lilacflower · 31/10/2014 16:06

Brian Keene has written a few (excellent) zombie books. Dead Sea, The Rising and Dead City I think it's called ? I love his books.

abigamarone · 31/10/2014 02:01

Also... David Moody (for a British take) and Wayne Simmons. These are both pretty decent and believable writers.

Less believable; Mark Tufo and Joseph Talluto.

TheysayIamparanoid · 31/10/2014 01:57

The Stand is a very good read- not too keen on the film tho!

abigamarone · 31/10/2014 01:51

I hated 'Death of Grass'. Really hated it.

Z. A. Recht, Craig dilouie and Joe McKinney have all written zompocalyptic series. Also Jessica Meigs, Patrick d'Orazio and D. J. Molles. Varying degrees of quality, but sometimes I don't care, I just want zombies.

amgine · 29/10/2014 17:55

The newsflesh trilogy (Feed, blackout, deadline) by mira grant. Plus some novellas in the same series which really enhance the series

thetropicmama7 · 28/10/2014 17:51

Another vote here for The Strain trilogy. It's actually now a tv series currently being shown on Watch.

StillWearingOddSocks · 24/10/2014 11:41

Kitty - love brother in the land...

GloopyGhoul · 23/10/2014 19:55

Yy to Hugh Howey's Wool. Also Jean Ure's YA Plague 99 trilogy.

KittyandTeal · 23/10/2014 19:51

Brother in the land and children of the dust are both pretty terrifying apocalyptic books. Not zombies though and written for teens. Still great books though.

Saying that I have a huge apocalypse issue so I'm usually not that worried about the quality of the writing.

LoveWillTearUsApart · 23/10/2014 19:42

More vampire than zombie, but zombie-esque vampires if you see what I mean - The Strain trilogy by Guillermo del Toro. Certainly post apocalyptic...

Azurea · 23/10/2014 19:17

Another one for Wool, I really enjoyed it. I read a series of books called Day by Day Armageddon, not the best written books but good if you just want some good old zombie fiction, I really enjoyed the first one, second was good and the third was just ok got a bit silly.

Tanukisan · 23/10/2014 18:36

See I thought The Passage was shite and loved The Girl with all the Gifts

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 23/10/2014 18:34

Yes to, 'The Passage.'

King's 'Cell' is more zombie-ish but nowhere near as good as, 'The Stand.'

Yes to, 'World War Z.'

I didn't like, 'The Death of Grass' much, or, 'I am Legend.'

The Mira Grant series isn't great literature by any means but is worth a read.

I couldn't read, 'The Girl with all the Gifts' or, 'Wool' because I thought they were really badly written.

I've finally just read, 'Earth Abides' which gets mentioned a lot on post-apocalyptic threads. I quite liked it - no zombies though!

impatienceisavirtue · 23/10/2014 17:59

Oooh I love a good zombie book thread

MrsJaqenHgar · 23/10/2014 17:45

All The Dead Are Here by Pete Bevan.

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