Most read Zombie books

Max Brooks presents a chilling oral history of the zombie war, told through the firsthand accounts of survivors from around the globe. This chronicle details humanity's desperate struggle against an overwhelming undead threat, capturing the fear, resilience, and the ultimate cost of a world forever changed.

• survival
• multiple povs
• quest

Robert Neville is the last man on Earth, or so he thinks. Each night, the infected hunt him, and by day, he struggles to survive in a world that has become a graveyard. He must find a way to fight back against the plague that has turned humanity into monsters, or he will be the next to fall.

• survival
• reluctant hero

Melanie is a brilliant, loving ten-year-old who is escorted to class each morning at gunpoint. She is also one of a group of infected children — the thinking remnant of a fungal plague that has turned most of humanity into ravenous "hungries." To one scientist she is the key to a cure, to a soldier she is a monster, to her beloved teacher she is a child worth saving. When the base falls, Melanie flees into the ruined world with the adults who both need and fear her. M.R. Carey's tense, moving post-apocalyptic novel reinvents the zombie story around one unforgettable girl.

• survival
• coming of age

The world as we know it has vanished, replaced by a brutal landscape where the dead walk and feed on the living. Society has crumbled, leaving survivors to navigate a new reality defined by constant danger and the desperate need to stay alive. This story plunges into a world where every day is a fight for existence, forcing people to confront what it truly means to live when everything else is gone.

A mysterious signal broadcast over cell phones has turned most of the world into flesh-eating monsters. Artist Clayton Riddell finds himself in the middle of this apocalypse and must fight his way through New England to find his son. He bands together with other survivors, facing terrifying odds in a desperate fight for survival.

• survival
• quest
• road trip
• sacrifice

In an America overrun by shamblers since Gettysburg, Jane McKeene trains in Baltimore to guard the rich. When girls from powerful families go missing, she and her rival uncover a conspiracy, and the price is exile to Kansas.

• coming of age
• survival
• found family
• rivals

Twenty years after a viral outbreak turned the dead into ravenous cannibals, blogger Georgia Mason and her adoptive brother Shaun cover a story bigger than either of them: the presidential campaign of Senator Peter Ryman. When the campaign trail turns into a killing ground, staged to look like the work of infected wildlife, Georgia and Shaun's news team uncovers a conspiracy that goes straight to the top of the government charged with keeping them safe.

• survival
• reluctant hero

Twenty-four stories of horror, crime and dark fantasy. A man plots revenge on a Nevada highway, a London street stops making sense, a killer flies his own plane, and a set of wind-up teeth turns murderous.

• revenge
• mystery box

R, a zombie with no memories or pulse, finds himself a little different from his fellow Dead, preferring to collect souvenirs and listen to music. His un-life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Julie, a living girl who becomes his captive and then his reluctant house guest. As an unlikely bond forms between them, R begins to feel something new, sparking a connection that could change their hopeless world.

• forbidden love
• redemption arc
• fish out of water
• star crossed

A katana-wielding stranger named Michonne asks for shelter in the prison where Rick Grimes and his group are trying to settle. Her arrival, and a violent clash soon after, puts Rick's leadership in doubt.

• survival
• morally grey

David and John are just trying to get by, but when a zombie apocalypse kicks off, they find themselves unexpectedly on the front lines. These slacker friends have to face down shape-shifting monsters and their own general lack of preparedness. It's a wild, funny, and scary journey where the world's fate depends on two guys who really don't want to be heroes.

• reluctant hero
• fish out of water
• quest

In a future dominated by vampires who farm humans for blood, Allison Sekemoto struggles to survive on the outskirts. When faced with the choice of death or transformation into the very creature she despises, she must learn to navigate a brutal world. Her path leads her beyond the city's defenses into a dangerous wasteland, forcing her to confront impossible decisions.

• survival
• reluctant hero
• coming of age
• morally grey

Anita Blake is a necromancer and vampire hunter who finds herself in the crosshairs of a powerful voodoo priestess. When a millionaire offers her a fortune to raise a centuries-old zombie, Anita refuses, only to realize that someone else is willing to do the dirty work. Now she must stop a killing spree that threatens to expose the darkest corners of the supernatural world.

• morally grey
• anti hero

A mysterious plague transforms the quiet English village of Meryton, bringing the dead back to life. Feisty Elizabeth Bennet is determined to eradicate the zombie menace, but her mission is complicated by the arrival of the haughty Mr. Darcy. This expanded edition of Jane Austen's classic blends a delightful comedy of manners and social prejudices with bone-crunching zombie mayhem, swordfights, and cannibalism.

• enemies to lovers

The Last of Us meets Yellowstone in this haunting, rural character piece set during the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. Jack Chandler is the sole survivor of the zombie apocalypse in his rural farming community, but rather than eliminate them, he has chosen to continue living alongside the undead — including the husband and adopted daughter he fought so hard to have. But when his town is discovered by outsiders, Jack suddenly becomes the one thing standing in the way of his family and those who hope to kill them for good. Eisner Award-nominated creators Tate Brombal (Barbalien, Batgirl) and Jacob Phillips (That Texas Blood, Newburn) team up for this unforgettable original story. Collects all issues, #1-5.

Three years after a plague empties Manhattan of the living, sweeper Mark Spitz spends a weekend clearing the infected from a resettled slice of the city. Flashbacks explain how he survived the outbreak and earned his nickname. Colson Whitehead plays it as bureaucratic comedy as often as horror.

• survival
• dual timeline

Mary lives in a village surrounded by a high fence, protected from the Unconsecrated that roam the endless forest outside. When the Sisterhood's secrets begin to crumble and the fence is breached, she must choose between the safety of the only home she has ever known and the slim hope of finding the ocean. Her journey through the woods becomes a desperate fight for life in a world overrun by the dead.

• survival
• love triangle
• coming of age
• forbidden love

Don't get caught unprepared when the dead rise! This book is your ultimate manual for surviving a zombie apocalypse. It covers everything from understanding the undead and mastering defense tactics to fortifying your home and adapting to a world overrun. Be ready for anything.

• survival

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns more about what happened to Rize and what it means to be a One-Eyed Ghoul.

Ten years after the fungal pandemic that turned most of humanity into feral "hungries," the fortified settlement of Beacon sends out an armored rover crew to search for a cure. Aboard the vehicle known as Rosie are a mix of soldiers and scientists, including epidemiologist Dr. Samrina Khan and a brilliant but socially withdrawn teenager, Stephen Greaves, whose unusual way of seeing the world may be exactly what the mission needs. As the expedition pushes deeper into the ruined landscape, tensions rise between the military escort and the scientific team, and Stephen's solo excursions bring him into contact with something unexpected among the infected. A prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts, this is a tense, character-driven survival story about the choices people make when a cure might cost everything.

• survival

Allie's maker Kanin has been captured and tortured by the psychotic Sarren. She leaves Eden with her blood brother Jackal to find him, while a deadlier outbreak spreads through New Covington and a vampire prince's deadline looms.

• quest
• survival
• betrayal
• sacrifice

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns more about what happened to Rize and what it means to be a One-Eyed Ghoul.

天敵“白鳩"に両親を殺害された少女・ヒナミ。悲劇の少女の為に、“白鳩"の本拠地[CCG]へカネキとトーカは足を踏み入れる。そこには、受け入れざるを得ない悲しみの螺旋階段が待ち受けていた──!

In the thrilling conclusion to the Three Dark Crowns series, an all-out war looms, pitting sister against sister and the living against the undead. As the rebellion falters, Arsinoe must find a cure for a powerful curse and confront a ravaging mist, while Mirabella's mysterious return under a banner of truce raises suspicions. The fate of Fennbirn rests on the queens as ancient secrets are revealed and allegiances are tested.

• chosen one
• betrayal
• sacrifice

When the ghost of Maria de Silva, Jesse's nineteenth-century fiancée, threatens Suze with a knife, Suze knows this isn't an ordinary haunting. Maria demands that backyard construction cease, leading Suze to suspect Maria is hiding something—or someone. Suze is determined to solve Jesse's 150-year-old murder, but uncovering the truth might mean losing the ghost she loves forever.

• forbidden love
• coming of age
• love triangle