If you have stopped in from time to time, you already know of my love for the zombie genre. I thought I would put together a list of some of my all time favorite zombie reads. So in no particular order, here they are:
Rise Again by Ben Tripp
A Mysterious Contagion. Mass Hysteria. Sudden Death.
And a warning that would come all too late . . .
Forest Peak, California. Fourth of July. Sheriff Danielle
Adelman, a troubled war veteran, thinks she has all the problems she can handle
in this all-American town after her kid sister runs away from home. But when a
disease-stricken horde of panicked refugees fleeing the fall of Los Angeles
swarms her small mountain community, Danny realizes her problems have only just
begun; starting with what might very well be the end of the world.
Danny thought she had seen humanity at its worst in war-torn Iraq, but nothing
could prepare her for the remorseless struggle to survive in a dying world
being overrun by the reanimated dead and men turned monster. Obsessed with
finding her missing sister against all odds, Danny’s epic and dangerous journey
across the California desert will challenge her spirit . . . and bring her to
the precipice of sanity itself. . . .
Dead City by Joe McKinney
Texas? Toast.
Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the
Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst
devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying--but the worst is only
beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly
virus has broken out, returning the dead to life--with an insatiable hunger for
human flesh. . .
The Nightmare Begins
Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San
Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army
of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off
the savage horde in a race to save his family. . .
Hell On Earth
There's no place to run. No place to hide. The zombie horde
is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to
destroy these walking horrors. . .but he doesn't know the price he will have to
pay. . .
The First Days by Rhiannon Frater
The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for
court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours
later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde.
Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a
powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's
stepson, Jason, from an infected campground.
They find sanctuary in a tiny, roughly fortified Texas town.
There Jenni and Katie find they are both attracted to Travis, leader of the
survivors; and the refugees must slaughter people they know, who have returned
in zombie form.
Love and Decay by Rachel Higginson
A vaccination gone oh so wrong and a huge portion of the
world's population was turned into Zombies. Reagan Willow is forced out of her
home when her parents become casualties of the horrid Zombie Apocalypse. With
the help of her best friend Haley, they've become somewhat of experts on
surviving the dangers of a world thrust into chaos and decay.
Reagan and Haley are on a vague mission to find somewhere
safe to live out the remainders of their terrifying life when they stumble upon
the Parkers, a pack of brothers that seem to have the survival thing down in a
much more efficient and successful way than Reagan could ever have imagined.
They are also protecting their eight year old sister, Page, and will do
anything to keep her safe.
The brothers decide that Reagan and Haley need help with
being kept safe as well, and as a group they set off to find the Zombie-free
utopia Reagan is dreaming of.
Zombies are a daily problem, constantly threatening the
lives of their group, but they're not the only peril on the journey ahead.
Militia groups of power hungry men are also a constant concern. And settlements
of paranoid, suspicious people turn out to be just as hazardous.
Danger looms over every inch of the way, but Reagan, Haley
and the Parkers are determined to get to their goal and remain together. Soon
the Parkers become more to Reagan than just traveling companions and more than
friendship starts to develop between her and Hendrix, the second oldest
brother.
But at the end of the world, nothing can be as simple as
life and death. Now, Reagan is going to have to schedule falling in love
between hunting and surviving. Hopefully she can last long enough to find out
if true love can still exist when everything else has started to fall apart.
Zombie Road by David A. Simpson
The people that tried to kill the world were fiendishly
clever.
After decades of planning, the contagion was unleashed and
overnight hundreds of millions died and came back as rampaging, undead
monsters. The living that had been lucky enough to survive the first day of
carnage, lucky enough to be in the right place and lucky enough that some of
them had the skills they needed, soon found out there was much more to worry
about than just zombies.
In the high desert on the outskirts of Reno, there is an old
truck stop frequented by a mix of hard caliber truckers, day tourists,
musicians and travelers. They have survived the chaotic first hours of contact
with the undead and now must make their way across the country to a location
they believe is safe. Zombies are only the beginning of their troubles as they
try to cover the thousands of miles of open road with their hastily armored
18-wheelers.
Gunny, a long haul trucker doing one of the few jobs available to
him as a disgraced soldier, is unwillingly saddled with the job of getting
these survivors to the safe zone. With a motley crew of truck drivers, college
kids, veterans, a drug dealer and a rock star, they are racing the clock to
make it before time runs out. The last text he had received from his wife
before the cell towers went down told him she was trapped in a high-rise in
downtown Atlanta and their son was in detention, stranded in the basement of the
school he attended.
Gunny just wanted to drop the hammer, steal some guns and
blast his way in to rescue them but duty called. He had to get these people to
safety first, then he could recruit the best of this crew to help him save his
family. If they survived the journey.
Hell on Earth by Tony Urban
When civilization ends - When hundreds of millions of the
dead return to eat the living - How will the remaining humans survive?
One week
ago there were over 300 million people living in America. Today there are less
than 5000. After a man-made plague destroys the population, cities burn and the
government crumbles when the dead come back to life as flesh-hungry zombies.
Wim, a 30-year-old farmer, purposely kept himself cut off from other people,
but when the undead arrive at his farm, intent on eating him, he's forced to
venture out into the land around him and fight to save a world on which he long
ago turned his back. Survivors from all walks of life - criminals and fry
cooks, teenagers and soldiers - battle to survive zombies and each other as
mankind races toward extinction.
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti
Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the
world turned upside down.
A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that
leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley
discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is
recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak.
That is just a few that I could think of right off the top of my head. I am always looking for a good zombie read - so if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks for stopping by,
Michelle
1 comment:
Sadly not a big zombie fan myself, though I have read one or two. I do recognize the Ben Tripp novel though, even in my limited scope. I believe a friend was talking about it the other day. Thanks for the share!
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