These 16 Zombie Books Are to Die For

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zombies give you life? Have you gotten drunk with the walking dead over and over again? dragged your friends and family to theaters every time a zombie movie comes out, even if they’re cringe-worthy? Do you have more than 200 hours of game play in left 4 dead? costumed characters reimagined as zombies? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should add these zombie books to your tbr to make sure your reading list is never dead.

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16 zombie books

for your (un)dead soul

1. scary nation by justina ireland

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.

In this new America, the safety of all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native American and Black Education Act require certain children to attend combat schools to learn how to sacrifice the dead. But there are opportunities, too, and Jane is studying to become a wizard, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the wealthy. it is a chance for a better life for black girls like jane. after all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

that’s not the life jane wants. Almost done with her education at Miss Preston’s Combat School in Baltimore, Jane is determined to return home to Kentucky and doesn’t pay much attention to the politics of eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of his days before the dead arose.

But when families in Baltimore County begin to disappear, Jane finds herself caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. and restless dead, it seems, are the least of her problems.

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2. hot bodies by isaac marion

‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.

Among the ruins of an abandoned city, he meets a girl. her her name is julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows: warm, bright and very much alive, she is an explosion of color in a dreary gray landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save Julie rather than eat her, and a tense but strangely tender relationship begins.

This has never happened before. he breaks the rules and defies logic, but is no longer content with life in the grave. he wants to breathe again, he wants to live and julie wants to help him. but the grim and rotten world of his won’t change without a fight…

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3. zombies vs. unicorns, edited by holly black and justine larbalestier

It’s a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn?

In this anthology, edited by holly black and justine larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments for both sides are presented in story form. half of the stories portray the strengths, for better or worse, of unicorns and the other half show the good (and very, very bad) side of zombies.

Contributors include many successful teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone wondering: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?

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4. the houses of bones by emily lloyd-jones

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead.

The resurrected corpses are known as “houses of bones” and legend has it that they are the result of a decades-old curse. When Ellis, a cartographer’s apprentice with a mysterious past, arrives in town, the Bone Houses attack with new ferocity. what is it that brings them closer? and, more importantly, how can they be stopped forever?

Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey deep into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to confront both the curse and deeply buried truths about themselves.

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5. eat, brain, love by jeff hart

The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda Blake, finally knows his name.

The bad news: It’s because they both contracted a mysterious zombie virus and ate the brains of half their senior class. Now Jake and Amanda are on the run from Cass, a teenage psychic sent by the government’s top-secret necrotic control division to track them down. As Jake and Amanda grapple with the existential guilt of eating their best friends and set off in search of a cure for the zombie virus, Cass grapples with a growing psychic dilemma of her own, one that will lead the three of them on an epic journey across the globe. country and make them question what it means to be truly alive. or undead.

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6. undead girl gang by lily anderson

Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care less what you think about her Doc Martens, her attitude, or her weight because she knows that, no matter what, her BFF Riley is right by her side. So when Riley and Fairmont Academy mean girls June Phelan-Park and Dayton Nesseth die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone’s explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life.

Unfortunately, Riley, June, and Dayton don’t remember their murders. But they have unfinished business to attend to. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, Mila must confront the distracted group of undead teens and work fast to uncover her killer…before the killer strikes back. new.

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7. this is not a test of courtney summers

It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

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8. devils turned to dust by emma berquist

The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox—call her Willie—and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a young woman fighting to survive the unthinkable will keep fans of Westworld and The Walking Dead reading late into the night.

A horrible disease has spread through the West Texas desert. infected (shaken) people attack the living, and surviving cities are only as safe as their perimeter walls are strong. the state is almost quarantined from the rest of the country. glory, texas, is almost a ghost town. Still, seventeen-year-old Willie has managed to keep her siblings safe, even after the disease took her mother. But then her worthless dad steals a fortune from one of the city’s most ruthless milkshake hunters, and Willie is on the hook for his debt. With two young hunters as guides, Willie sets out into the desert to find his father. And the desert holds more danger than just shakes.

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9. rot & ruin by jonathan maberry

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half.

Benny doesn’t want to be a zombie hunter apprentice with his boring older brother Tom, but he doesn’t have a choice.

He expects a tedious job hitting zoms for money, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.

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10. alice in zombieland by gena showalter

If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Your father was right. the monsters are real.

To avenge his family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets could prove to be more dangerous than zombies.

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11. the final games by t. miguel martin

Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in the Game for weeks. In the rural mountains of West Virginia—armed with only their rifle and their love for each other—the brothers follow Instructions from the mysterious Game Master. They spend their days searching for survivors, their nights fighting endless hordes of “Bellows”—creatures that roam the dark, roaring for flesh. And at this Game, Michael and Patrick are very good. But the Game is changing. The Bellows are evolving. The Game Master is leading Michael and Patrick to other survivors—survivors who don’t play by the rules. And the brothers will never be the same.

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12. dead generation by daniel waters

Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush. He’s strong and silent…and dead. All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring. Some teenagers who die aren’t staying dead. But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they are doing their best to blend into a society that doesn’t want them.

oakvale high management tries to be more responsive to the “differently biotic”. but students don’t want to take classes or eat in the cafeteria next to someone who isn’t breathing. and there are no laws to protect the “living disabled” from people who want them gone forever.

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13. z by michael thomas ford

The First Rule of Torching: Cleanse with fire.

josh is by far the best zombie hunter out there; at least, it is in his virtual reality zombie hunting game. Josh has quickly risen through the ranks of players, relying on the skill, cunning, and agility of a true torchbearer.

the second rule of burning: save all humans.

but luckily for josh, zombies only exist in the virtual world. The real zombie war is now over fifteen years in the past, and the battle to defeat the deadly epidemic that devastated his family, and millions of others, is the stuff of history lessons.

the third rule of burning: you can’t bring them back.

charlie is the highest ranked in the game. Since all gamers are shrouded in anonymity, Josh never expects Charlie to be a girl, and he never expects the offer she makes him: join the underground gaming league that takes VR gaming off the screen and into to the streets. Jose is delighted. but the more he gets involved, the more he realizes that all is not what it seems. real blood is being spilled, team members are disappearing, and zombies in the game are acting strange. And then there is the matter of a mysterious drug called Z. . . .

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14. reign of the fallen by sarah glenn marsh

Odessa is one of Karthia’s master necromancers, catering to the kingdom’s ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it’s Odessa’s job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised-the Dead must remain shrouded, or risk transforming into zombie-like monsters known as Shades. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation will begin.

A dramatic increase in shadow attacks arouses suspicion and fear among the Odessa necromancer community. Soon, the crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating shadows by ripping the shrouds off the dead and training them to attack. Odessa is faced with a terrifying question: what if her necromancer’s magic is the weapon that brings Karthia to her knees?

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15. dead beautiful by yvonne woon

On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she’d ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.

After the funeral, Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like philosophy, Latin, and the “brute sciences”.

There she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably attracted. As they get closer, inexplicable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t help but fall in love with her. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the academy is all that it seems.

Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that makes him fear for his life.

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16. dark inside by jeyn roberts

Since the beginning of mankind, civilizations have fallen: the Romans, the Greeks, the Aztecs…and now us. Huge earthquakes rock the world. Cities are destroyed. But something even more awful is happening: An ancient evil has been unleashed, and it’s turning everyday people into hunters, killers, and crazies.

this is the world in which aries, clementine, michael and mason live, or rather, try to survive. each fleeing unspeakable horror, from murderous mayhem to brutal natural disasters, and each traveling the same path in a world gone mad. Amidst the throes of the apocalypse and clinging to love and meaning wherever it may be found, these four teens embark on a journey into the heart of darkness, to find one another and find a place of safety.

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if you’ve already read all these books, then we don’t know what to say… maybe you should be the one to give us recommendations. leave them in the comments below!

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