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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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Archfarchnad · 23/10/2014 17:41

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is most amusing. Not really post-apocalyptic though. It's a book of manners and brains.

ArkhamOffett · 23/10/2014 17:33

Bird Box by Josh Malerman. No zombies, something worse.....

Didactylos · 23/10/2014 17:20

oryx and crake
post apocylyptic but no zombies

AliceLidaaagggghhhhhl · 23/10/2014 17:14

I quite liked Wool by Hugh Howey, and it's sequels, Shift and Dust.

I've read a couple of books in the Extinction Point series by Paul Antony Jones on Kindle and they were quite good. Just bought the third and final part.

I agree with Day of the Triffids, The Stand and The Girl With All The Gifts as well, all very good books.

I did buy some very odd stories on Kindle, by an author called Stant Litore, that make up the zombie bible. And that's what they seem to be, bible stories with a zombie twist to them. The first one I bought was called Death Has Come Up Into Our Windows and tells the story of Jerimiah, stuck down well as punishment and having a zombie dropped down on him once a day. I'm not sure if I'm recommending them or just informing you that they exist, that's how odd they are Grin

Azurea · 23/10/2014 10:28

I loved World War Z. I didn't like I am legend, I thought it was boring.

AnathemaIsANiceNameForAGirl · 23/10/2014 09:43

*Howey not howdy

AnathemaIsANiceNameForAGirl · 23/10/2014 09:43

Agree with most of the above and would add I Zombie by Hugh Howdy and The Reapers Are the Angels (can't remember author).

The Death of Grass by John Christopher is a good non-zombie post-apocalyptic one.

Petallic · 23/10/2014 09:41

Another vote for I Am Legend - even if you have seen the film as the book is a far better read I think.

CoteDAzur · 23/10/2014 09:39

The Girl With All The Gifts is stupid not that great.

World War Z is very good and has very little in common with the film.

The Passage is pretty good, its sequel not so much.

MollyMaDurga · 23/10/2014 09:35

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. Not classic zombie, not post-apocalyptic but well weird and a great read.
Justin Cronin is vampires but post-apocalyptic and also very good, the Passage and the Twelve, there a part three on the way.

Selendra · 22/10/2014 16:14

Mira Grant's Newsflesh series.

GoingToBedfordshire · 22/10/2014 16:11

I really enjoyed World War Z.

Timeandtune · 22/10/2014 16:09

Agree Station Eleven is unforgettable

LadySlipper · 22/10/2014 16:04

Swan Song - Robert McCammon.

RRRJ83 · 22/10/2014 16:00

I am legend

MrsHowardRoark · 22/10/2014 15:58

Stephen King's The Stand is excellent.
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.

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Kasterborous · 22/10/2014 15:55

Thanks for those I've just bought The Girl with all the gifts on my kindle

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RicStar · 22/10/2014 15:46

Station Eleven. Just read & loved (no zombies though) am now reading the girl with all the gifts too.

Mcnorton · 22/10/2014 15:38

The girl With all the gifts by MR Carey. Just finished it, really good.

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