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The Enemy

Charlie Higson · 439 pages

They'll chase you.They'll rip you open.They'll feed on you . . .When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician – every adult – fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all t

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Aftermath

David Moody

"It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give themselves the best possible chance of continuing to stay alive. They are the last of the living. A band of refugees has taken shelter in a medieval castle - a fortress that has stood s

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The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them

Robert Kirkman · 144 pages

Can a town not yet ravaged by the horrors unleashed on Earth possibly be all it's hoped for? Is there a far more sinister secret behind their newfound safe haven? Even worse, can people forever changed by the worst in humanity ever hope to get back to their old selves? This chapter of the Walking Dead is set to change everything.

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Monster Island

David Wellington · 288 pages

It's one month after a global disaster. Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and also acquired psychic powers. When an expedition from Africa arrives, composed of teenage girl-soldiers and a former U.N. weapons inspector, the zombie masters mobilize their forces

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The Infection

Craig DiLouie · 286 pages

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The First Days

Rhiannon Frater · 335 pages

A lawyer, Katie, and a housewife, Jenni, are thrown together by circumstance and find themselves fleeing for their lives when a horde of zombies takes over the world.

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Dying to Live

Kim Paffenroth · 216 pages

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Apocalypse of the Dead

Joe McKinney · 503 pages

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Deadlocked

A.R. Wise

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Rise of the Governor

Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga · 308 pages

"In The Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it's forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople's amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. The Governor was voted "Villain of the Year" by Wizard Magazine the year he debute

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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Odium II

Claire C. Riley · 370 pages

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The Apocalypse

Peter Meredith · 345 pages

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Shadows

Ilsa J. Bick · 528 pages

When Alex discovers that Rule is not a sanctuary, she must battle to survive against conniving adults, distrusting survivors, and the Changed, who would eat her alive.

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks · 352 pages

“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to th

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Rot & Ruin

Jonathan Maberry · 458 pages

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.

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Zombie Rules

David Achord

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Survivors

Z.A. Recht, Thom Brannan · 308 pages

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This Dark Earth

John Hornor Jacobs

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Aftermath

Owen Baillie · 322 pages

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The Wrath of the Just

Manel Loureiro

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Zombie Fallout

Mark Tufo · 404 pages

When a rushed H1N1 vaccine hits the public during a widespread outbreak, the cure becomes far worse than the disease. Victims convulse, collapse, die—then rise again with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Now, the dead walk, society crumbles overnight, and America becomes a blood-soaked wasteland. Michael Talbot, former-Marine and self-proclaimed survivalist, never expected to use his do

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White Flag of The Dead

Joseph Talluto · 278 pages

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Thicker Than Blood

Madeline Sheehan, Claire C. Riley · 366 pages

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