Rar I Hunger For Brains!

Kitty Pryde · Feb 25, 2010

Please hit me with your best zombie book recommendations. Of course I have already read World War Z, which is awesome. I am currently reading The Forest of Hands and Teeth (damn what a good title!) by Carrie Ryan and enjoying it much more than I thought I would. And I think a few Terry Pratchett novels have zombies in them too, but I've read every single book he's written, so I'm covered there

I know there's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but that seems a bit too stupid for my liking. I think there's some zombie trilogy that came out a few years ago, but I don't know the titles.

ETA: Last night my friend was telling me about a "really good book with a really bad cover" written like the journal of an army-type dude and his adventures during a zombie outbreak. Anyone know the title?

Please help me, as I hunger for ~~tasty human brains~~ good zombie novels!

Deleted member 42 · Feb 25, 2010

Forget the books; Jonathan Coulton "Re: Your Brains."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcH2UmK1uo

Wavy_Blue · Feb 25, 2010

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest has some serious zombie action and kick-butt adventure!

(Man, I'm pimping this book a lot around here lately...)

defcon6000 · Feb 26, 2010

The Zombie Survival Guide wasn't bad, by the same author as World War Z. Not really a story, but if you like satire it's an enjoyable read.

Wavy_Blue · Feb 26, 2010

Oh, there's also Zombie Haiku. Which is exactly what is sounds like: a book of zombie haikus.

FOTSGreg · Feb 26, 2010

Kitty, Kitty, Kitty <shaking head>...

If you want advice on zombies, zombie books, zombie movies, or anything else zombie, why would you come to the SF&F forum? Come on down to the Horror forum. We'll treat you to a wonderful time of tor...er, murd..., er..., mayh...er... Drat! We'll treat you good, okay?

You'll have a good time. Trust me...

Hmmm, zombie movies and books...

Zombie CSI is a pretty good analytical investigation of how a zombie infestation would be investigated.
WetWorks is a good anthology although a couple of its stories are, well, disgusting for their content.
Almost anything by Brian Keene is going to be good. I highly recommend Dead Sea, The Rising, and even The Conqueror Worms.
Cell is decent, but I'm not certain you can count the victims as zombies.

Zombie Diaries is awesome or so I'm told.
Zombieland is good but with too many funny scenes interspliced for my tastes (plus, I loathe Woody Harrelson).

Sean of the Dead is a great movie

Come to the Hounds basement. We'll give you dozens of other, er, choices...

Leanan-Sidhe · Feb 26, 2010

I haven't read it myself, but didn't a Zombies vs Unicorns anthology come out recently?

yttar · Feb 28, 2010

I think the trilogy you're looking for starts with Monster Island, but I forget who it's by.

Yttar

jhmcmullen · Mar 1, 2010

Monster Island (and Monster Nation and Monster Planet) are by David Wellington.

An early version of Monster Island is serialized here: http://www.brokentype.com/monster/

There's also Dead City by Joe McKinney, which I thought had some nice bits but didn't make it for me as a story.

The Book of All Flesh and its two successors contain some nice stories.

I liked Brian Keene's The Rising though the sequel City of the Dead didn't work for me. David Dunwoody's Autumn seemed too open-ended for my tastes: things weren't resolved in a way I like.

Actually, I know of a few books, but I haven't read enough to know which ones are good, so I'm going to abandon the pretense and point you to a list of zombie books: http://www.zombiebooklist.com/

Rar I Hunger For Brains!

Kitty Pryde

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Deleted member 42

Wavy_Blue

Adventure is out there!

defcon6000

Wavy_Blue

Adventure is out there!

FOTSGreg

Today is your last day.

Leanan-Sidhe

leaving trails of fairy dust

yttar

practical experience, FTW

jhmcmullen