Books like Zombies
Loved Zombies by Jack Cole? Here are 6 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Zombies →6 books
- 1World War Z
World War Z
Max BrooksA zombie novel told as a set of oral testimonies from survivors of a global outbreak.
- 2The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts
Mike CareyA novel about a fungal outbreak that turns people into hungry creatures, seen through the eyes of a schoolchild held in a military base.
- 3Rot & Ruin
Rot & Ruin
Jonathan MaberryA young-adult zombie novel about two teenage brothers living among the undead in a post-collapse America.
- 4Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-SmithA comic reworking of Jane Austen's novel with zombies added, which mixes the parody of the original with the undead.
- 5I Am Legend
I Am Legend
Richard MathesonA classic horror novel about a lone survivor of a plague that has turned most of humanity into creatures that hunt at night.
- 6The Passage
The Passage
Justin CroninA large-scale apocalyptic horror novel about a viral outbreak that creates monstrous, bloodthirsty creatures and the survivors who fight them.
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