Zombie apocalypse books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
World War Z
Max BrooksPresents the crisis as an oral history examining global geopolitics, supply chains, and state responses.
The Girl with All the Gifts
Mike CareyReinvigorates infection biology using the cordyceps fungus while exploring human empathy through a second-generation infected child.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1
Robert KirkmanEstablished the template for 21st-century long-form survival realism focused on the degeneration of human ethics.
Zone One
Colson WhiteheadBrings literary prose and sociological observation to the mundane, traumatic reality of post-outbreak cleanup crews in Manhattan.
I Am Legend
Richard MathesonThe foundational text for scientific infection, siege mentality, and the concept of the sole human survivor.
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