World
War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by
Max Brooks (SF BRO)
Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the fictitious
"zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with
first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead
and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the
planet.
Deadline by Mira Grant (SF GRA)
Shaun Mason learns that a Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
researcher has faked her own death when she shows up on his doorstep
with zombies in tow, but she brings news that reignites Shaun's will
to live and he sets out with a shotgun and a new mission.
Raising
Stony Mayhall
by Daryl Gregory(SF GRE)
Stony, an infant victim of the first zombie outbreak in 1968, is
taken in by Wanda Mayhall and her three daughters when they find him
rapped in his mother's arms and buried in the snow, but after Stony
miraculously begins to grow out of his infancy, a night of terror
shows him he is not the only undead left in the world and is forced
to run.
Allison
Hewitt Is Trapped by Madeleine Roux (SF ROU)
Allison Hewitt and her five coworkers at the Brooks and Peabody
bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak begins, and
while Allison tries to find help by blogging on her laptop, the
group protects themselves against zombies and dangerous humans.
Zombie,
Ohio by Scott Kenemore (SF
KEN)
Peter Mellor, a rural Ohio college professor, dies in a car accident
during a zombie apocalypse and wakes up to find he has become a
highly intelligent zombie, but, with a failing memory and friends
and the general population adverse to his company, Peter begins to
question the circumstances of his death and decides to investigate
to find out the truth.
Plague
of the Dead by Z.A. Recht (SF
REC)
Anna Demilio, who has been studying a virus known as Morningstar at
the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, tries
to warn the government about its dangers, but when an outbreak
occurs and the military fails in their plans to cut off its spread,
the world becomes overrun with zombies and Anna scrambles to find a
cure.
Dead
City by Joe McKinney (SF
MCK)
San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson faces a life or death crisis
when a zombie virus breaks out in the wake of a series of hurricanes
that has left thousands dead.
Apocalypse of the Dead by
Joe McKinney (SF
MCK)
Retired U.S. Marshal Ed Moore sets out to lead a band of survivors
to safety in the wake of a global zombie epidemic, and they arrive
at a compound in North Dakota where a self-appointed preacher may
prove to be humanity's only hope.
Rise
Again: A Zombie Thriller by Ben Tripp (SF TRI)
Sheriff Danielle Adelman of Forest Peak, California, thinks she has
troubles enough as the Forth of July rolls around, but the arrival
of a horde of disease-stricken refugees fleeing from Los Angeles
brings with it more problems and possibly the end of the world.
Brains:
A Zombie Memoir by Robin
Becker (SF BEC)
When Jack Barnes, a college professor, is bitten and transformed
into a zombie, he continues to be able to think like a normal human
and sets out on a journey, gathering zombie allies along the way, to
find the origins of the virus in hopes of fighting for the rights of
the undead.
Paul is
Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
by Alan Goldsher (SF GOL)
A gothic classic that finds Beatles John, Paul, George, and Ringo as
rocker zombies taking over the world.
I
Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It by
Adam Selzer (SF SEL)
Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday
life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug
catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a
vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him.
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by
S.G. Browne (SF BRO)
Andy Warner, a reanimated survivor of a car crash that killed his
wife, pieces his life together from his parents' wine cellar while
attending zombie support group meetings, and when he meets Rita, an
undead girl who cut her own throat, he begins to find his place in
society.
Zombie
Blondes by
Brian James (SF JAM)
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move
she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her
that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
The
Zombie Survival Guide by
Max Brooks (818 BRO)
Offers trusted, proven tips to help people survive a zombie attack,
explaining how people can protect themselves and their loved ones
from the hordes of undead that roam the earth.
Generation Dead by
Dan Waters (SF WAT)
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at
her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the
phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they
encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
The
First Days by
Rhiannon Frater (SF FRA)
Kate and Jenni join forces when the city is taken over by zombies
and as they try to outwit the undead and race across Texas to save
Jenni's oldest son, they learn of a small, isolated, heavily
fortified town that may be their only hope for survival.
Undead by
John Russo (SF RUS)
Contains
novelizations of two films by John Russo, including "Night of the
Living Dead" and "Return of the Living Dead" in which recently
buried corpses are resurrected by radiation fallout from an
unsuccessful rocket launch and a nerve gas leak from an army supply
store and crawl out of their graves in search of human flesh.
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist (SF AJV)
After thousands of recently deceased people rise from their graves
in Stockholm, Sweden, the local authorities begin to question the
relatives of the undead.
Day by
Day Armageddon by
J.L. Bourne (SF BOU)
A survivor of a global disaster involving a plague of the undead in
the United States keeps a journal of his daily activities while
trying to keep from becoming one of the zombies.
The
Changed by B.J. Burrow
(SF BUR)
Chris finds his ordinary life turned upside down when human zombies
begin taking over the world, forcing him to become an advocate for
undead rights.
Ashes by
Ilsa Bick (SF BIC)
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable
brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an
angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse
sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population,
turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others
superhuman senses.
Bad
Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris (SF HAR)
Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school's
football coach gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn
players into zombies and Kate must find an antidote before the
flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends.
Feed by
Mira Grant (SF GRA)
Twin bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason try to survive while hordes of
zombies that were brought back from the dead by a virus, and when a
presidential candidate, Senator Peter Ryman, asks the Masons to
cover his campaign, they become involved in political conspiracies
and a world where social media gives them a large amount of power.
Rot and
Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (SF MAB)
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard
the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken
civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that
he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty
hunter.
Z by
Michael Thomas Ford (SF FOR)
In the year 2032, after a virus that turned people into zombies has
been eradicated, Josh is invited to join an underground gaming
society, where the gamers hunt zombies and the action is more
dangerous than it seems.
Play
Dead by Ryan Brown (SF BRO)
Every player on the Killington High Jackrabbits football team is
killed in a bus accident except quarterback Cole Logan, who turns to
a mysterious fan to revive the team as zombies so they can still win
the district championship.
Patient
Zero by Jonathan Maberry (SF MAB)
Baltimore detective Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism
task force and asked to lead an ultra-secret rapid-response unit on
a dangerous mission to stop a group of terrorists from releasing a
bioweapon that will turn ordinary people into zombies.
State
of Decay by James Knapp (SF KNA)
Nico Wachalowski, a field agent for the FBI, lives in a dystopian
society filled with "revivors," technologically reanimated corpses
that are used to do humanity's dirty work, but when he is sent in to
bust a smuggling ring, Wachalowski uncovers a stockpile of revivors
programmed to kill, along with a hoard of weapons.
Something
Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard (SF DEN)
In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets
out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an
evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead.
This
Dark Earth by John Horner Jacobs (SF JAC)
Gus, a battle-hardened young man, designed Bridge City to protect
the surviving humans from the ravenous zombies that plague the land,
and now he is being groomed by his physician mother to be the next
leader of men, but an army of slavers is on its way and the war they
will wage could mean the end of mankind.
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist (SF AJV)
After thousands of recently deceased people rise from their graves
in Stockholm, Sweden, the local authorities begin to question the
relatives of the undead.
The
Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (SF RYA)
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of
life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and
the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive
flesh-eating people who were once dead.
