Can anyone recommend a good zombie/post apocalyptic book?

[Kasterborous]

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

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.

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

Kitty - love brother in the land...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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
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

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

Another recommendation for Station Eleven from me. Loved it!

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.

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.

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

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...)

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

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...