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The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel

Alden Bell - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free. For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead....
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Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?

Max Brallier - Gallery Books
Format: Book

Inside these pages lies unspeakable horror. Bloodsplattering, brain-impaling, flesh-devouring horror. You've probably read your fair share of zombie stories. But this time it's different. No longer can you sit idle as a bunch of fools make all the wrong moves. All hell is about to break...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks - Crown
Format: Hardcover

We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z, a #1 New...
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Play Dead

Ryan Brown - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover

A darkly humorous, rich, and pungent zombie shocker that melds our national obsession with football and the newest wave of fascination with the undead.For the first time in Killington High School history, the Jackrabbits football team is one win away from the district championship where...
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The First Days

Rhiannon Frater - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

Rhiannon Frater's As the World Dies trilogy is an internet sensation. The first two books, The First Days and Fighting to Survive, have won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novel from Mail Order Zombie. The First Days was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade...
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Plague Town: An Ashley Parker Novel

Dana Fredsti - Titan
Format: Paperback

Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited...
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Deadline

Mira Grant - Orbit
Format: Paperback

When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life.
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Handling the Undead

John Ajvide Lindqvist - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that...
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Dead of Night: A Zombie Novel

Jonathan Maberry - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

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...
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Warm Bodies: A Novel

Isaac Marion - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life...
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Flesh Eaters

Joe McKinney - Pinnacle Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

They rise... Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry. And as human survivors scramble to their rooftops for safety, the zombie hordes circle like sharks. The ultimate killing machines. They feed... Houston is quarantined...
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Autumn

David Moody - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours,...
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Dead Mann Walking: A Hessius Mann Novel

Stefan Petrucha - Roc/New American Library
Format: Paperback

After Hessius Mann was convicted of his wife's murder, suppressed evidence came to light and the verdict was overturned-too bad he was already executed. But thanks to the miracles of modern science Hessius was brought back to life. Sort of. Now that he's joined the ranks of Fort Hammer's...
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Allison Hewitt Is Trapped: A Zombie Novel

Madeleine Roux - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of ASYLUM comes one woman's story as she blogs - and fights back - the zombie apocalypseAllison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help...
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Rise Again

Ben Tripp - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

A MYSTERIOUS CONTAGION. MASS HYSTERIA. SUDDEN DEATH. And a warning that would come all too late . . . Forest Peak, California. Fourth of July. Sheriff Danielle Adelman, a troubled war veteran, thinks she has all the problems she can handle in this all-American town after her kid sister...
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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel

David Wellington - Running Press
Format: Paperback

It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive - in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven...
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