5 best Zombie Novels

[Kurben]

I think this is a bit difficult... The top two picks are given. The only two that are really, Really, good. Then there are quite a few that are good. Which three of them should i give a place on my list? Here are my picks.

1. World War Z - Max Brooks
2. The Girl With All The Gifts - M.R. Carey
3. Rot & Ruin - Jonathan Maberry
4. Cell - Stephen King
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith

Maberry has written several good ones but i decided only one for each author. Otherwise Patient Zero and Dead By Night would have been contenders. Monster Island by David Wellington i also considered.
Share your opinions and tell me why i'm wrong and how could you not include that one.

 

[Doc Creed]

Once again I'm in the dugout on this one. I am familiar with all your choices but from your list I have read only Cell, and I didn't particularly like that book.

 

[Kurben]

Once again I'm in the dugout on this one. I am familiar with all your choices but from your list I have read only Cell, and I didn't particularly like that book.

Far from his best isn't it? But i find that even when hes a little off his mark he compares with others rather favorably. In my opinion there has only been two really great Zombie novels and they take the top two places. Then is very even i think.

 

[Dana Jean]

This is an adorable kid's book featuring zombies. I have no small children and I actually went and bought it for myself.

 

[Dana Jean]

and just saw I need to add this to my bookshelf too:

 

[GNTLGNT]

….Zombie "novels"...that's rough....I've read some great anthologies of short works-but novel length....hmmm...Cell is in there and maybe.....

….and their have been some terrific graphic novel series....like the biggie The Walking Dead and a personal favorite '68 which is set in the Vietnam Era......

 

[do1you9love?]

I don't have much to add to this one, except more titles to add to my reading list.

 

[Dana Jean]

….Zombie "novels"...that's rough....I've read some great anthologies of short works-but novel length....hmmm...Cell is in there and maybe.....

….and their have been some terrific graphic novel series....like the biggie The Walking Dead and a personal favorite '68 which is set in the Vietnam Era......

One of my CD books just read. It was good. Done well.

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

I don’t think I’ve read any zombie books, really the only four I can think of are Cell, “Pride, prejudice, and zombies”, World War Z, and The Walking Dead (If comic books count)

 

[rudiroo]

For pure Zombie indulgence , go directly to the zombie (zompoc? Multiple mutilations of the language alert) section of Amazon's Kindle Store.

For hypnotic narrative, characters you could love (platonic or romantic) and characters who really need the Texas defense was invented, read TW Brown:

For epic sweep, multiple worlds and all that good stuff, Robert Chazz Shute's This Plague of Days:

For a female protagonist , who may be a bit short on redeeming features , yet still inhales you into her chaos (as if the chaos around her wasn't bad enough:

The ultimate challenge - so many zombies, so few guns and set in the UK:

And, of course, World War Z - Max Brooks' goes all Studs' Terkel with, Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers, on the side

And the added bonus is that these wonderful books distract me from pesky pain.
Yeah pain, bring it on, do your worst.
The written word got to me first!

Happy reading, folks

 

[RichardX]

The only one that comes to mind is "Handling the Undead" by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

I don’t think I’ve read any zombie books, really the only four I can think of are Cell, “Pride, prejudice, and zombies”, World War Z, and The Walking Dead (If comic books count)

Pet Sematary counts now that I think about it