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All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe final book in the Until the End of the World series is here! Cassie Forrest has sworn she’ll never let the world get the best of her again. She’s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it’s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely...Categorized as:
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Sanctum by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Any Sanctuary Stand? With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station to do their small part in salvaging humanity’s future. But the post-virus world isn’t kind to humans or their plans and nothing they find on their journey is what they expected... -
And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsCassie Forrest could almost believe life at Kingdom Come Farm is perfect, with Adrian and her friends at her side and spring on the way. The spring thaw also means millions of defrosting zombies, however, and if the past year has taught her anything, it’s that life in this new world is highly imperfect... -
Rules of Engagement by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRules kept them alive, but a single choice could destroy them. After discovering the identity of the mysterious Morning Star, and dividing Camp Olney, the Ford family prepare for an imminent attack from Jude Lawson. However, the real threat might not come from raiders but a powerful and ruthless group intent on making Whitefish home, and its residents captives...Categorized as:
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City of Stin by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKill the infection! Kill the Infected! In the aftermath of the battle for Monk’s Island, Murphy has been nursing Zed back to health in a remote house at the west end of the lake. But every day they see helicopters cross the sky, heading south and then back north again.Zed wonders if the helicopters are proof that not all civilization has collapsed...Categorized as:
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Grind by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTime for Revenge It’s time for revenge. Zed’s animosity toward Mark has been simmering through the deaths of too many of his friends. Zed realizes he can no longer pretend he’s able to take the high road and rise above his hate. He sets out to track the horde of naked Whites in order to find Mark and kill him.Of course, none of Zed’s schemes work out as planned...Categorized as:
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Torrent by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSurvive the infection! Survive the Infected! Following his none-too-soon reunion with his friends at the safe house, Zed is hoping things can finally fall into a stable routine, but in post-virus Austin, things are far from stable...Categorized as:
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Fever by Deon Meyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa--and the world, as far as they know--to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country... -
Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBOOK 3 IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to To Sail a Darkling Sea and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization... -
Rules of Darkness by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey learned the rules, then broke them to survive. One month after a crippling attack on the power grid, the country is still in darkness. As a new wave of violence sweeps the nation, the Ford family are soon drawn into a battle for survival with an unknown menace. Tasked with stopping the threat to protect the small town of Whitefish, Montana, Corey soon discovers a traitor is among them...Categorized as:
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Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...Categorized as:
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Fire in Winter by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Before you embark on a journey of vengeance, dig two graves.” - Confucius. With the dark cloud of civil war gathering on the horizon, Gabriel Garrett struggles to protect his new home and the new life he has just begun. But as he soon learns, a man’s past has a way of catching up with him, and Gabriel has more than his share of dark secrets...Categorized as:
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsConnor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end...Categorized as:
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Anarchy Rising by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnarchy Rising is the 2nd book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features eleven full-page illustrations. The 3rd book, Judgment Day, is due out in January of 2014After the worst pandemic in mankind's history, anarchy threatens to break apart the United States. The government is years away from providing even the most basic necessities...Categorized as:
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The Book of Riley 1 by Mark Tufo, Sean Runnette
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American bulldog. Follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary, and Riley's arch enemy Patches the cat...Categorized as:
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Rules of Survival by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe hated the rules until the power grid failed. Tyler Ford is a tour guide, a brother, and the son of a prepper from Whitefish, Montana...Categorized as:
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Warrior Within by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are those who do not wish for peace.As the Free Legion declares war on the survivors of Hollow Rock, Gabriel and Eric find themselves drawn ever deeper into the growing conflict. Aided by a fledgling militia, and a small contingent of federal operatives, the two warriors must find a way to defeat an unyielding enemy that threatens to destroy all they have grown to love...Categorized as:
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Dead Fire by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDead Fire picks up following an infected attack on Sarah Mansfield’s fortified house, during which 3 people seek shelter with the Zed Zane and his fellow survivors. In the confusion, however, Murphy is gunned down, and an unthinking, emotional Zed strikes out to enact revenge.Unfortunately, the shooting and commotion have only attracted more Whites...Categorized as:
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To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...Categorized as:
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State of Vengeance by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger... -
Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCivilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot.Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging.Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return...Categorized as:
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Yellowstone Hellfire by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsYellowstone is controlled by nature. Its beauty is breathless and tranquil. Crystal clear streams flow. Buffalo roam freely...Categorized as:
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All That Remains by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOn the brink of chaos, the journey of survival begins. Landon Gray, a skillful “ferry pilot” who delivers planes to customers has one final drop in Alabama before Christmas. But when an EMP causes the plane he’s in to crash on the remote, snow-covered mountains of North Carolina, he’s rescued by, Beth ‘Bluebird’ Sullivan, who claims to have lived off the grid since she was born...Categorized as:
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The Book Of Riley 2 by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen the zombie apocalypse strikes without warning one dog will hold the fate of her pack in her paws. This is the story of Riley, an American Bulldog, follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's younger brother Zachary and Riley's arch-enemy Patches the Cat...Categorized as:
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The Undead Day Three by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night's manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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As We Fall by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the system fails, will you fight to survive? Sam Wade is on a trip to reconnect with his estranged daughter studying in Boston when the interconnected U.S. infrastructure is crippled by an unknown attacker. As the internet, communication networks and the power grid go down, the world is soon thrown into turmoil and danger...Categorized as:
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So Long, Lollipops by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings**WARNING** This novella contains major spoilers from the novel UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DX73ZPY It’s suggested you read the novel before you read SO LONG, LOLLIPOPS... -
Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat happened to Benny Imura and his friends after they reached Sanctuary—and discovered that it was far from the miracle they had thought it would be? Jonathan Maberry shares a glimpse into a formative moment in an exclusive e-short story that also features Joe Ledger (Patient Zero, Extinction Machine) and Iron Mike Sweeney (The Pine Deep Trilogy)...Categorized as:
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Heathens by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCobra Wildcard. Sinner. Frequently misunderstood. I can be your best friend or your worst fucking nightmare. The Savages are my family and the Badlands is our paradise. When that’s threatened, no one is safe. Carnage and chaos unfold around me. Loyalties are tested. Truths start to unravel...Categorized as:
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Breakdown by Bruno Miller
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Post-Apocalyptic Survival seriesDo you have what it takes to survive? Ben Davis was prepared for disaster. He just didn’t know it would come so soon. He and his teenage son, Joel, are miles deep in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains when high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic detonations light up the pre-dawn sky... -
Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA family of survivors who fight back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few Marines...Categorized as:
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War by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn one side: the ravenous hordes of the Infected – insanely fast blue zombies who can think, heal and even reproduce. On the other: the vicious, hyper-violent remnants of the U.S. Government, obsessed with the destruction of the real America. Only Bruce and his brave clan of battle-hardened warriors stand to fight for the future in a high-tech military thriller that will thrill and inspire...Categorized as:
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Decisions by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the wake of his wife’s death, Bruce took the bloodiest of revenges on the gangs who preyed upon the innocent, all while protecting the farm—now called Base Hope—against a seemingly endless horde of the infected. Returning from the very brink of sanity, Bruce makes the decision to rebuild America. He begins by planning the construction of the city of New Hope...Categorized as:
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Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow did Riot escape from the Night Church? How did she survive the Rot & Ruin—and the horrors of her own past? There’s only one way to find out....Jonathan Maberry explores the origins of a fascinating new character in an exclusive e-short story set in the land of the Rot & Ruin...Categorized as:
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The Undead Day Two by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night's manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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World Undone by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven the best plans come undone.With their supplies reclaimed and food enough for the future, the group at Barry’s cabin can do more than just scrape by. Between fruitful gardens, great friends, and sturdy fences—not to mention karaoke—life in the zompoc is better than ever.Nothing is perfect, however... -
Apocalypse Machine by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE HUMAN RACE STARTED THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION ON EARTH. A chain of subglacial volcanoes erupt in Iceland. The melting ice floods the countryside. Poisonous gas descends on Scotland. A tsunami devastates the Norwegian coastline. An ash cloud rises into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across Europe, ushering in a new Ice Age...Categorized as:
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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsMy name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no law left except what you make of it... -
Reborn by Tara Brown
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwenty years ago a man made a child he never intended to love.Ten years ago the world ended and Emma turned her back on the man she believed was her father.Eight weeks ago she discovered the truth about her family, including the sister she never knew she had.Last week she had her heart broken by the one man she never imagined giving it to...Categorized as:
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Survival by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMike and Bruce have escaped the hospital and the city. Only to find infected aren't their only worry. With them they have brought survivors back to the farm and that was never part of any plan. How will they feed, clothe and help those who join them. How can those that join the family help them? They traveled through hell to come home but hell is now everywhere...Categorized as:
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The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm.Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe... -
Destroyer by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDestroyer finds Zed saying goodbye to one friend and pressing forward with two new ones to whom we are introduced in Book 2 – Infected. Mandi, whom Zed and Murphy rescued from the bunker, is immune to the virus. Russell, whose home the others plundered in search of food and other supplies, is also a slow burn, but lower-functioning, childlike and docile...Categorized as:
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Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIt's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa... -
The Last Infidels by A.R. Shaw
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhat the world dreads most, happened. Now that they've begun to thrive, the true reason for humanity’s demise becomes ever more apparent. In her dystopian and post-apocalyptic bestselling novel, The China Pandemic, A. R. Shaw created a realistic world after a much too plausible pandemic event. Now, the remaining survivors must conquer their enemy more sinister than anyone ever guessed... -
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Siege by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSiege is the conclusion to Rhiannon Frater’s As the World Dies trilogy, which should appeal to fans of The Walking Dead. Both The First Days and Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award from Mail Order Zombie. The First Days was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. The zombie illness has shattered civilization...Categorized as:
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The Darkness We Crave by Katie May
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMost people don't think about where they're going to be when the world ends. On the beach drinking margaritas? In the arms of a lover? How about in a shit-ass resort run by your shit-ass parents? I have always lived my life as the perfect daughter. At seventeen, I had no other option than to follow my parents' strict regiment... -
Rage by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMankind is going extinct and a horde has found the farm. Bruce has lost the love of his life and is losing his humanity. His sorrow has been smothered in hate. Bruce is the one who sets the tone for the survivors, to them he does no wrong... -
Babysitter of the Apocalypse: We Don't Sacrifice Kids to Zombies by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world overrun by the undead, with no experience in parenthood and an empty past that haunts her every step, Vicki is the last person you'd expect to be a caregiver. A borderline alcoholic struggling to keep her own demons at bay, she's suddenly thrust into the role of protector for two young children... -
Into the Fire by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow far will you go to save your family?Thirteen American cities devastated by nuclear bombs. Hundreds of thousands of people dead. And a nation descending into chaos.After fleeing the radioactive ruins of Miami, Dakota and Logan finally reach their destination--a cabin deep in the Everglades, surrounded by a million acres of sawgrass rivers, cypress forests, and gator-infested swampland...Categorized as:
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Wayward by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...Categorized as:
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