This is a list of zombie related novels that are notable, or written by notable authors.
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| Name | Author | Year | Description | |
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| Autumn: Aftermath | Moody, David | 2012 | The final book in the Autumn series | |
| Autumn: The City | Moody, David | 2003 | The second novel in the Autumn series begins by introducing new characters whose actions run concurrent with the action in the original novel, before uniting the two groups. | |
| Autumn: Disintegration | Moody, David | 2011 | A continuation of the Autumn series | |
| Autumn: The Human Condition | Moody, David | 2005 | A continuation of the Autumn series | |
| Autumn: Purification | Moody, David | 2004 | The third novel in the Autumn series revolves around a military bunker sealed off from the outside world. | |
| The Awakening | McBean, Brett | 2012 | A coming-of-age novel concerning a teenager's tumultuous summer as he deals with the joys and hardships of growing up, while learning about the value of freedom at the hands of a kind but cursed old man. Contains strong elements of traditional Haitian Vodou and zombies. | |
| Blackout | Grant, Mira | 2011 | Third novel in the Newsflesh series, following Deadline. | |
| Bone Song | Meaney, John | 2008 | In a world populated by humans along with zombies, ghosts and other mystical creatures, a human police officer falls in love with his superior, a beautiful zombie woman. | |
| The Book of All Flesh | Lowder, James (Editor) | 2001 | Anthology of stories including works by Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Edelman, Ed Greenwood, and Jim C. Hines. | |
| The Book of Final Flesh | Lowder, James (Editor) | 2003 | Origins Award-winning anthology including works by Kealan Patrick Burke, Joseph Nassise, Paul G. Tremblay, and Tim Waggoner. | |
| The Book of More Flesh | Lowder, James (Editor) | 2002 | Anthology including stories by Jesse Bullington, Charles Coleman Finlay, Claude Lalumière, and Thomas Piccirilli. | |
| The Boy on the Bridge | Carey, M.R. | 2017 | A prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts. | |
| Browne, S. G. | 2009 | A dark, comedic take on zombies told from the point of view of a recently reanimated corpse. | ||
| Cell | King, Stephen | 2006 | Anyone talking on a cell phone after a particular event becomes an aggressive, bloodthirsty zombie.[1] | |
| City of the Dead | Keene, Brian | 2005 | This is the official follow-up to The Rising. Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. | |
| Conan the Defiant | Perry, Steve | 1987 | One of Conan's companions, Tuanne, is a beautiful zombie; he is romantically interested in her. | |
| The Dead | Higson, Charlie | 2010 | A young adult novel. Adults over sixteen turn to zombies and young survivors battle against them. | |
| Dead City | McKinney, Joe | 2006 | Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star state is reeling from the worst devastation in history. A deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life. | |
| Dead of Night | Maberry, Jonathan | 2011 | A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang...but a bite. | |
| Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction | Moreno-Garcia, Silvia (Editor) | 2007 | Collection of twenty short stories from various authors, including Gemma Files, Claude Lalumière, Simon Strantzas, and Richard Van Camp. | |
| Dead Sea | Keene, Brian | 2007 | A zombie apocalypse starts with undead rats emerging from Baltimore's sewers. | |
| Deadline | Grant, Mira | 2011 | Second novel in the Newsflesh series, following Feed and followed by Blackout. | |
| Death Troopers | Schreiber, Joe | 2009 | A story in the Star Wars universe about an Imperial prison ship stranded in space, encountering another ship crammed with the ship's crew, which have been turned into zombies due to a bio-weapon the ship was carrying. | |
| Die for Me | Plum, Amy | 2011 | The main heroine befriends a group of revenant zombies who sacrifice their lives to save humans, and falls in love with one of them. | |
| Dragon on a Pedestal | Pierce, Anthony | 1983 | One of the protagonists is a zombie woman who falls in love with a human, and marries him at the end of the novel. | |
| The Enemy | Higson, Charlie | 2009 | A young adult novel. Surviving youngsters battle adults who have become zombies. | |
| The End | Higson, Charlie | 2012 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the seventh book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. | |
| The Fallen | Higson, Charlie | 2013 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the fifth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. | |
| The Fear | Higson, Charlie | 2011 | A young adult novel. Surviving youths battle "mothers" and "fathers" who have fallen ill. | |
| Feed | Grant, Mira | 2010 | News reporters blogging in a world that has, in the main, survived a zombie apocalypse; first novel in the Newsflesh series, followed by Deadline. | |
| Feedback | Grant, Mira | 2016 | The fourth novel in the Newsflesh series, Feedback covers the same time period as Feed from the perspective of a different set of characters. | |
| The Forest of Hands and Teeth | 2009 | Teen book. In a village generations after the zombie apocalypse a 16-year-old struggles with her town's religious rules until the village walls are breached and she is forced to flee into the woods.[2] | ||
| Friday the 13th The Jason Strain | 2006 | An attempt at replicating the immortality and healing factor of Jason Voorhees goes wrong, and results in a zombie plague. | ||
| Geeks vs. Zombies | Higson, Charlie | 2012 | A companion short story book in The Enemy series portrays an exclusive scene from The Fear (2011), on World Book Day. | |
| Generation Dead | 2008 | Teen book. In the present day, U.S. teens are randomly rising from the dead, and the country is in turmoil over the question of zombie civil rights. | ||
| The Girl with All the Gifts | 2014 | In a dystopian future, most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection. The infected quickly lose their mental powers and feed on the flesh of healthy humans. In 2017, Carey published a prequel, The Boy on the Bridge. | ||
| Hadriana in All My Dreams | Depestre, René | 1988 | In Haiti, a young French woman is turned into a zombie on her wedding day. Winner of the 1988 Prix Renaudot. | |
| Handling the Undead | Lindqvist, John Ajvide | 2005 | During a massive heatwave the unexplained resurrection of thousands of recently deceased people begins in Stockholm, Sweden. David, whose wife has recently died, has gone to the morgue to identify remains of his lost love only to find that she has begun to move. It's terrifying to David, but gives him a strange kind of hope. | |
| Herbert West--Reanimator | 1921 | Medical doctor invents a serum that re-animates corpses. | ||
| History is Dead: A Zombie Anthology | Paffenroth, Kim (Editor) | 2007 | Twenty short stories by twenty different authors with zombies in alternate histories. | |
| The Hunted | Higson, Charlie | 2014 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the sixth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. | |
| Husk | 2012 | A blackly humorous take on the genre, as an unwilling but terribly hungry zombie strives to continue his career as an actor. | ||
| Illuminatus! | 1976 | In the third volume, Leviathan, opens with a rock festival on the shores of Lake Totenkopf in Bavaria. Unknown to all except the heroes and the villains, the bodies of an entire division of the Waffen-SS were interred on an underwater plateau supported by a "biomystical field" to maintain bodily integrity. At the climax of the festival, they will return to life as zombies, surface, and slaughter all 250,000 hippies at the festival. | ||
| Kiss of Life | 2009 | Teen book. Sequel to Generation Dead. | ||
| The Living Dead 2 | 2010 | A collection of 44 short stories about zombies includes contributions by Max Brooks, Robert Kirkman, and David Wellington. | ||
| The Magic Island | 1929 | An account of the author's travels in Haiti, which is considered the first English language book about zombies. It influenced the rise of the zombie genre in American film.[3] | ||
| Midnight Tides | Erikson, Steven | 2004 | One of the main characters is a zombie pirate woman who likes to seduce living men. | |
| Monster Island | 2006 | In New York City, the dead walk the streets. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers comes in search of desperately needed medicine, with a former UN weapons inspector as their local guide. | ||
| Monster Nation | 2006 | A prequel to Monster Island where a sentient zombie tries to cure herself. | ||
| Monster Planet | 2007 | Sentient zombies are intent on taking over the world killing the living with a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Les morts ont marché | 2011 | In Saint-Liconet, a zombie outbreak took place. To try finding who was the first living dead among the eight last suspects, you read interviews with witnesses, autopsy reports, and proofs analysis reports. | ||
| Necromancer | Scott, Harper | 2009 | Sequel to Predators or Prey?. Monster hunter Wendy Markland fights zombies in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. | |
| On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks | 1989 | A bounty hunter chases his quarry in a land where the "dead folks" have re-animated due to a bacterium which has escaped a lab. | ||
| On Stranger Tides | 1988 | Puppeteer John Chandagnac, who was sailing to Jamaica, has no choice but to join the buccaneers who have taken him prisoner. Blackbeard is assembling an empire of ruthless navy of pirates, living and undead, to voyage to the fabled Fountain of Youth. John, now known as Jack Shandy, tries to free himself from Blackbeard's deadly supernatural domination. | ||
| Maberry, Jonathan | 2009 | A radical Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to release a deadly bio-weapon on the American people. | ||
| Pontypool Changes Everything | 1998 | The dark side of humanity as an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. | ||
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Grahame-Smith, Seth | 2009 | Mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction.[4] | |
| 2010 | Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. | |||
| 2011 | Sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. | |||
| Le protocole Reston | 2009 | In the city of Trois-Rivières, a mutant Asian monster escapes from a boat and a zombie outbreak begins. The governments try to keep the story from the media while a high school teacher and his roommate try to survive to their zombie neighbour. | ||
| Raising Stony Mayhall | Gregory, Daryl | 2011 | Set in 1968, after the first zombie apocalypse, the body of a teenage mother is discovered in the snow, clutching a dead baby. The dead child begins to grow. | |
| Resident Evil: Caliban Cove | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | A paramilitary force investigates an Umbrella cover facility. | |
| Resident Evil: City of the Dead | 1999 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 2. | ||
| Resident Evil: Code Veronica | 2001 | Adaptation of . | ||
| Resident Evil: Nemesis | 2000 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 3. | ||
| Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | Adaptation of Resident Evil. | |
| Resident Evil: Underworld | Perry, S.D. | 1999 | A monster-creation lab is targeted for destruction. | |
| Resident Evil: Zero Hour | Perry, S.D. | 2004 | Adaption of Resident Evil 0. | |
| The Rising | Keene, Brian | 2004 | Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. | |
| The Sacrifice | Higson, Charlie | 2012 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the fourth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. | |
| Moore, Christopher | 2004 | In his inept attempt to bring "Santa" back to life, an angel causes the townspeople of Pine Cove to fall under siege by brain-hungry zombies who arise from their burial plots. | ||
| Undead | Russo, John A. | 2010 | A novelization of Night of the Living Dead and a sequel called Return of the Living Dead. | |
| The Undead: Zombie Anthology | Snell, D. L. (Editor), Hall, Elijah (Editor), Shapiro, Eric (Contributor) | 2005 | Collection of 23 stories. Classic tales of survival in a world populated by the living dead as well as an array of unique takes on the zombie genre from authors including David Wellington and David Moody[5] | |
| Under a Graveyard Sky | 2013 | The story of a family escaping a zombie epidemic in the US on a sailboat and the beginning of the process of finding survivors on the high seas as a prelude to retaking the mainland. Book one of the Black Tide Rising series. | ||
| Us vs the World | Child, Catriona[6] [7] | 2021 | Set in Edinburgh, and full of pop-culture zombie references, the novel deals with how a mother and son cope when a family member turns. | |
| Kirkman, Robert and Bonasinga, Jay | 2011 | It depicts the journey of Philip Blake in the early days of the undead apocalypse to his eventual rise as "The Governor" of Woodbury. | ||
| Kirkman, Robert and Bonasinga, Jay | 2012 | It follows the travails of Lilly Caul who finds herself coming in contact with the "Governor" of Woodbury, a refuge amongst the zombie apocalypse that is not what it seems. The second of a planned trilogy. | ||
| Warm Bodies | Marion, Isaac | 2010 | R is a zombie who is a little different than his fellow Dead. He meets Julie Grigio, a Living girl, and ends up falling in love. | |
| World War Z | Brooks, Max | 2007 | An oral history told by many survivors of the start, during, and aftermath of the zombie apocalypse.[8] [9] | |
| Zom-B | Shan, Darren | 2012 | Series of 13 books written from 2012-2016 for teenagers. When zombies attack B's school, B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors, making allegiances with anyone with enough guts to fight off their pursuers. | |
| Zombie Apocalypse! | Jones, Stephen | 2010 | A mosaic novel in which interconnected narratives create a unique vision of the end of the world brought about by a plague. | |
| Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback | Jones, Stephen | 2012 | The sequel to Zombie Apocalypse! The human fightback against the legions of the walking dead begins. | |
| The Zombie Survival Guide | Brooks, Max | 2003 | An earnest discussion of various survival techniques in a world threatened by zombies. | |
| Roff, Don | 2009 | A man writes in his bird watching journal about trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse. | ||
| Zone One | Whitehead, Colson | 2011 | Mark Spitz is a "sweeper," clearing away stragglers from Manhattan's Zone One district after the zombie attacks. These trapped souls are malfunctioning zombies, destined to ceaselessly repeat mundane acts they carried out while alive. | |
| Name | Author | Year |
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| Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth | Paffenroth, Kim | 2006 |
| Theories of International Politics and Zombies | Drezner, Daniel W. | 2010 |
| The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless | Greene, Richard and K. Silem Mohammad | 2006 |
| The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia | Dendle, Peter | 2000 |
| Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen | Lowder, James (Editor) | 2011 |
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| Niles, Steve | Calero, Dennis, Almos, Diego, Branch, Ken and Jones, Nat | 2007 | One-shot issue | |
| Black Panther | Hudlin, Reginald | Portela, Francis | 2005 |
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| Blackgas | Ellis, Warren | Fiumara, Max | 2006 |
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| Containment | Red, Eric | Stakal, Nick | 2005 |
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| Cursed | Avery, Fiona Kai and Blevins, Tippi | Molenaar, Romano | 2003 |
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| Dawn of the Dead | Romero, George A. (original story) and Niles, Steve (adaption) | Chee Yang Ong | 2004 |
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| Dead@17 | Howard, Josh | Howard, Josh | 2003 |
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| Howard, Josh | Howard, Josh | 2004 |
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| Hamby, Alex | Hall, Benjamin | 2005 |
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| Howard, Josh | Howard, Josh | 2004 |
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| Howard, Josh, Hamby, Alex, Embry Egg, Burns, Jason M., Hopkins, David and Bussey, Pat | Howard, Josh, Abel, Martin, Benjamin Hall, Law, Scotty, Stephens, Sean and Bussey, Pat | 2004 |
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| Deadworld | Reed, Gary | Locke, Vince and Makkonen, Sami | 1987 | |
| Escape of the Living Dead | Russo, John A. | Verma, Dheeraj | 2005 |
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| Highschool of the Dead | Sato, Daisuke and Sato, Shouji | Sato, Shoji | 2006 | |
| Land of the Dead | Romero, George A. (original story) and Ryall, Chris | Gabriel Rodriguez | 2005 | |
| Living with the Dead | Richardson, Mike | Stenbeck, Ben | 2007 | |
| Marvel Zombies | Millar, Mark and Kirkman, Roberts | Phillips, Sean | 2005 |
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| Marvel Zombies 2 | Kirkman, Robert | Phillips, Sean | 2007 |
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| Marvel Zombies 3 | Van Lente, Fred | Walker, Kev | 2008 |
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| Marvel Zombies 4 | Van Lente, Fred | Walker, Kev | 2009 |
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| Marvel Zombies 5 | Van Lente, Fred | Lopez, Jose Angel Cano | 2010 |
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| Kirkman, Robert | Phillips, Sean | 2007 | Oneshot | |
| Marvel Zombies Return | Van Lente, Fred | Dragotta, Nick | 2009 |
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| Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness | Layman, John | Neves, Fabiano | 2007 |
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| Night of the Living Dead | Romero, George A. and Russo John (original story) Skulan, Tom and Stanway, Eric (adaption) | Kastro, Carlos with Meheu, Eric | 1991 | |
| Night of the Living Dead | Hannan, Noel | Rawling, Rik | 1994 | |
| Raise the Dead | Moore, Leah and Reppion, John | Hugo Petrus | 2007 | |
| Rebel Blood | Riley Rossmo and Alex Link | Riley Rossmo | 2012 |
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| Remains | Niles, Steve | Dwyer, Kieron | 2004 |
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| Resident Evil | Paul W. S. Anderson | Odagawa, Ryan, Bermejo, Lee and D'Anda, Carlos | 1998 |
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| Chung Hing, Lee and King Sum, Hui | King Sum, Hui | 2002 |
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| Shaun of the Dead | Pegg, Simon and Wright, Edgar (original story) Ryall, Chris (adaption) | Howard, Zach | 2005 |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog | Flynn, Ian | Yardley, Tracy, Bryce Thomas, Adam, Stanley, Evan, Lawrence, Jack, Tramontano, Priscilla | 2019 |
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| Ellis, Warren | Wolfer, Mike | 2004 | ||
| Tales of the Zombie | Gerber, Steve | Marcos, Pablo | 1973 |
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| Toe Tags | Romero, George A. | Castillo, Tommy | 2004 |
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| Ultimate Fantastic Four | Millar, Mark | Land, Greg | 2005 |
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| Unsounded | Ashley Cope | 2010 | ||
| Victorian Undead | Edginton, Ian | Fabbri, Davide | 2010 |
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| Victorian Undead II | Edginton, Ian | Fabbri, Davide | 2011 |
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| The Walking Dead | Kirkman, Robert | Moore, Tony and Adlard, Charlie | 2003 |
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| Xombie: Reanimated (Volume 1) | Farr, James | Lovett, Nate | 2008 | |
| The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks | Brooks, Max | Roberson, Ibraim | 2009 | One-shot graphic novel |