Books like 'Dead Town: A Deadwater Story'

Readers who enjoyed Dead Town: A Deadwater Story by Anthony Giangregorio also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

horror  action / adventure  monsters/creatures  zombies  male-mc

  • Legion by Dirk Patton

    Legion by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the thrilling V Plague series finale, the continued survival of what remains of the human race hangs in the balance and John is forced to make an impossible decision...
  • Abaddon by Dirk Patton

    Abaddon by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    John is changing after becoming infected with the virus and faces an impossible decision. He must find a cure before everything he has fought for is lost, but a cure will mean sacrificing the opportunity to defeat the enemy...
  • Primal by D.J. Molles

    Primal by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They're called Mr. No One and Mr. Nobody, and wherever they go, death follows. Lee Harden is out for blood. After a month, the cartel is looking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows, worried about the madmen in their backyard, who seem obsessed with little else but killing cartel members...
  • The Bones of Valhalla by Sam Sisavath

    The Bones of Valhalla by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FOR EVERY NIGHT, THERE IS A NEW DAWN.One night. That was all it took for the world to be forever changed. Creatures that once lived in the shadows rose, spreading like a plague across the globe, swallowing whole cities and collapsing unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge...
  • Reap of the Righteous by Christopher Artinian

    Reap of the Righteous by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the multi-award-winning author Christopher Artinian, comes the the third part of the post-apocalyptic zombie series people are calling, "Gripping", "fast paced and full of action", "very realistic", "captivating", "inventive", and "emotional". Safe Haven - Reap of the Righteous Civilisation has crumbled in a matter of months...
  • Defiant by D.J. Molles

    Defiant by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don't ever let it break you.The United Eastern States is crumbling. The fragile house of cards that Lee Harden and Angela Houston have built has begun to fall. Lee is up against a ticking clock, as he is recalled from Texas and given the last thing in the world that he wants: A promotion...
  • Infection by M.P. McDonald

    Infection by M.P. McDonald

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A pandemic survival novel The world has never seen a virus like this. Not only is it deadly, but it changes victims' behavior in order to spread the disease before they die. When Cole Evans first heard about the flu outbreak at a military base on a remote island, he felt a little uneasy...
  • The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SOME THINGS ARE STILL WORTH FIGHTING FOR.Killing has never been something Keo shied away from, but the events of the last year have made him rethink his bloody past. Except nothing lasts forever. Now, Keo has embraced his old ways and set his sights on a new target--and there is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose...
  • Abyss by Shawn Chesser

    Abyss by Shawn Chesser

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ABYSS: SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Edited by Monique Happy Editorial Services 128,000 words Outbreak - Day 1 Presidents, premiers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again...
  • Terminus by D.J. Molles

    Terminus by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only way out is through.Greeley, Colorado lies before him. Griffin’s army presses at his back.Lee Harden is out of options, and out of time.Inside the city, Sam Ryder is trapped behind enemy lines, and Acting President Briggs still maintains his stranglehold on the country—and Lee’s destiny.Choices. We are made by choices. And they make us...
  • The Undead: Part 14 by R.R. Haywood, Joe Jameson

    The Undead: Part 14 by R.R. Haywood, Joe Jameson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Undead. The number one best-selling UK zombie horror series.The Undead: Part 14.The second week reaches a thrilling climax as the group face their hardest day yet.A deadly infection spreads across Europe.The Undead Series: a terrifying account of one man desperately struggling to survive this harrowing event...
  • The Apocalypse Revenge by Peter Meredith

    The Apocalypse Revenge by Peter Meredith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Jillybean, moments of utter happiness and pure sanity are as fleeting and wonderful as sun-showers at a July picnic. Her time with Granny Annie is one such moment, but as always it ends far too quickly and she is once more thrust back into a world of crushing loneliness and endless despair.Setting out to find a family who will lover, she discovers an orphaned boy of her own age named Chris...
  • The Apocalypse Executioner by Peter Meredith

    The Apocalypse Executioner by Peter Meredith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The war with the Azael has left the people of Estes Valley weakened and isolated in their mountain retreat. Supplies of fuel and ammo are dangerously low and yet Neil bets most of what he has left on a gamble to find Jillybean, who was last seen in the forests of Missouri.Neil is the only one who sees in the little girl a chance at a new beginning...
  • ARISEN : Raiders, Volume 3 – Dead Men Walking by Michael Stephen Fuchs

    ARISEN : Raiders, Volume 3 – Dead Men Walking by Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Readers call the ARISEN series: “the new Gold Standard - by far the most thoughtful and intriguing zombie series ever written” … “the most harrowing, sustained action sequences I think I've ever read” … “the wildest and best rollercoaster I've ever been on” … “They grab you on the first page and kick your ass through the entire series” … “you never know what the hell is coming at you next” …...
  • The Isles of Elysium by Sam Sisavath

    The Isles of Elysium by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A year after The Purge, mankind is still an endangered species, but the Isles may finally offer the path to...
  • The Undead Day Ten by R.R. Haywood

    The Undead Day Ten by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly infection spreads across Europe.The Undead Series: A terrifying account of one man desperately struggling to survive this harrowing event.Day Ten and the struggle continues into week two of The Undead Series...
  • Where There's Hope by Frank Tayell

    Where There's Hope by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There is always hope. Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won’t stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking a way across the Channel, they make for the coast, unaware that Britain has been abandoned, Belfast is a ruin, and that radiation is seeping into the Irish Sea...
  • The Ashes of Pompeii by Sam Sisavath

    The Ashes of Pompeii by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    EVERY WAR REQUIRES SACRIFICES.The only way to survive in a post-Purge world is to keep your head down, but that's not always an option.Still stranded in the Louisiana countryside, Will, Danny, and Gaby race against the clock to get back to their friends, but the road home is treacherous and enemies lie in wait...
  • The Fires of Atlantis by Sam Sisavath

    The Fires of Atlantis by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Separated but not out of the fight.Gaby has been captured by a familiar figure from her past. Some might take captivity lying down, but they aren't Gaby.Will and Danny are close on Gaby's trail, but their rescue mission is detoured in a city under siege by a very dangerous new breed of ghouls. The reunited ex-Army Rangers will face their toughest fight yet if they want to get out alive...
  • The Spears of Laconia by Sam Sisavath

    The Spears of Laconia by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE A STAND.They've been relentlessly hounded ever since The Purge decimated the world, and every day since has been a struggle to stay one step ahead of the enemy.Keo has returned, claiming to have information that can turn the tide of war against the ghouls...
  • The Stones of Angkor by Sam Sisavath

    The Stones of Angkor by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The war for survival continues. The fight for Song Island is over. Despite suffering losses, Will and his group have claimed the island as their own and achieved the safe haven they’ve longed for since The Purge. Months later, Will makes contact with another group of survivors, and travels to their base in hopes of striking an alliance and gathering much-needed medical supplies...
  • Southlands by D.J. Molles

    Southlands by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After being sequestered to a bunker to recover from his wounds, Lee Harden is finally going topside with his fellow Project Hometown Coordinator, Terrence "Tex" Lehy. Lee wants to ally the UES with Texas, in order to combat the threat of a powerful oil cartel to the south. But Tex's methods raise serious questions, and Lee quickly discovers that Texas has its own set of problems...
  • Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...
  • Remains by Sam Sisavath

    Remains by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Third and final installment in the post-apocalyptic After The Purge: Vendetta storyline. ___________________________________________ THE VENDETTA COMES FULL CIRCLE. He’s been hunting it for a long time now—a one-eyed, blue-eyed ghoul that took everything from him—and now Wash is about to confront his greatest threat. Whether it ends in victory or defeat, it will end...
  • Reclamation by T.W. Brown

    Reclamation by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Years have passed since the dead rose and wiped out most of the living. Many survivors have gathered in pockets around the world. Some are bent on trying to restore what once was, others with a mind to create something new and better from the ashes of civilization, and then there are those who now thrive in the hellish chaos of lawlessness...
  • Gone by Shawn Chesser

    Gone by Shawn Chesser

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: GONE Edited by Monique Happy Editorial Services 98,000 words Outbreak - Week 1 Presidents, premiers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again...
  • Tokens by Sam Sisavath

    Tokens by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tokens is the second book in the After The Purge: Vendetta storyline, set in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world where Man has begun to reassert itself as the most dangerous species. ___________________________________________ TRAVEL THE POST-PURGE ROADS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Despite the odds being stacked against her, Ana has saved her little sister, and now all that remains is to return home...
  • Mort Vivant by Frank Tayell

    Mort Vivant by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all people died. Not all gave up hope. The outbreak was in February. By the end of November, Earth has become a hellish wasteland ravaged by the undead. Survivors from across the Atlantic seaboard took refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Beset by dangers from within, they departed to establish a new refuge in Belfast. Not all of them arrived...
  • The Undead Day Seven by R.R. Haywood

    The Undead Day Seven by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A deadly infection spreads across Europe.The Undead Series: A terrifying account of one man desperately struggling to survive this harrowing event...
  • Harden by D.J. Molles

    Harden by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been three years since Lee Harden emerged from his bunker into a world gone mad. Governments have fallen. And new ones have taken their place. In the United Eastern States, Lee and his team of battle-hardened operatives walk a tightrope of survival, keeping their fledgling society safe from the creatures beyond their gates--and from the enemies within...
  • The Undead Day Three by R.R. Haywood

    The Undead Day Three by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My 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...
  • The Gates of Byzantium by Sam Sisavath

    The Gates of Byzantium by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Man is no longer at the top of the food chain. The Purge has devastated the globe, turning much of humanity into night-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures (dubbed “ghouls” by the survivors), while small pockets of remaining humans have managed to carry on. With the loss of their sanctuary, Will and his small band of survivors are forced to seek shelter elsewhere...
  • The Distance by Sam Sisavath

    The Distance by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEY DON’T KNOW WHO THEY’RE MESSING WITH. Keo isn’t an easy man to kill. Many have tried, and none have succeeded. His skills are becoming legendary, but everyone has an Achilles heel. In the aftermath of Buck’s bloody surprise attack on Darby Bay, Keo has rushed to help his friends. But he’s too late, and the battle has already been decided...
  • Requiem by Sam Sisavath

    Requiem by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    THE WORLD WAS NOT READY Six years ago, the world was plunged into darkness. Five years ago, it got a second chance. Now the fight for what’s left begins… They Called It The Purge… History books call it The Purge, and it altered the course of human history. A breed of seemingly unkillable creatures that once lurked in the shadows of mankind’s past finally revealed themselves...
  • Capital Falling by Lance Winkless

    Capital Falling by Lance Winkless

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Capital Falling Lance Winkless As black smoke rises, order disintegrates... Former SAS soldier Andy Richards is no stranger to horrors, but no training could ever have prepared him for the nightmare unfolding at home. While a viral epidemic hammers London, Andy finds himself trapped in the epicenter, forced to protect his family...
  • Counteraction by M.D. Massey

    Counteraction by M.D. Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a hunter in post-apocalyptic central Texas, Scratch Sullivan has survived zombies, vampires, rogue militia units - heck, he even killed a werewolf with nothing more than a spear and a bad attitude. But what's a man to do when the local werewolf pack destroys his town and abducts his best girl? If you're Scratch Sullivan, you get spittin' mad - and then you get retribution...
  • Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown

    Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything hangs by the thinnest of threads. In a DEAD world, nothing is certain and nobody is safe. Friends have fallen, some enemies have been defeated only to be replaced by yet another. As the first year of the zombie apocalypse ends and a new year begins, can a person hope that the coming of spring can be a starting point for re-birth? If not..
  • Darkness Before Dawn by T.W. Brown

    Darkness Before Dawn by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winter has gone, but the world is no less inhospitable.The survivors of this first winter now face some of the darkest and most soul-wrenching choices thus far. From the outskirts of London to an island refuge in Oregon, small groups struggle to build a new life.Kevin recovers to a realization that shatters his dreams, yet he must stand up and take the role of leader…or die trying...
  • Mist City by Sam Sisavath

    Mist City by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new storyline... A new hero... Same deadly universe... A SHOOTER WITHOUT A TARGET. The man who calls himself John Smith once had a reason to fight: He was committed to a crusade he was willing to kill and die for. Trained by one of the best gunmen alive, Smith’s natural instincts with a handgun were honed to almost perfection...
  • Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess

    Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five years have passed since the collapse of civilization. The dead still walk the land, but humanity has proved itself strong and resilient. Large settlements have begun to trade, manufacture, and rebuild what was lost. Kell McDonald and his friends continue to work in isolation. On the verge of a breakthrough in their research for a cure, secrecy has never been more vital...
  • Cruising the 'Poc by R.S. Merritt

    Cruising the 'Poc by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Steve continues on the journey to check on his parents and keep his adopted family safe as they slog through the Florida heat towards the much hyped Tennessee cabin. There's more dangers in this 'new normal' than just the Zombies! He documents the journey in his Zournal...
  • Wildfire: Destruction of the Dead by Shaun Harbinger

    Wildfire: Destruction of the Dead by Shaun Harbinger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Operation: Wildfire. Deliver a batch of vaccine to two army camps. For Alex and his friends, the task sounds simple. But in a zombie apocalypse, even the simplest tasks are dangerous. With a new threat arising on the coast, and an old enemy determined to kill him, Alex must fight for survival while carrying out a mission to save humanity...
  • Mutation by Nerys Wheatley

    Mutation by Nerys Wheatley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bitten. Infected. Turned.Cured.Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes.Feared and despised.The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before.And Alex is trapped right in the middle of the outbreak...
  • Karen's First Day by Joseph Zuko

    Karen's First Day by Joseph Zuko

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Raising kids is tough. Keeping them alive as the zombie apocalypse begins is tougher. But that's exactly what stay-at-home mom Karen needs to do: fight fiercely to keep her young daughters safe as her husband Jim battles his way across the city, so they can escape the carnage together...
  • The Gem Cardoza Chronicle by Eric A. Shelman

    The Gem Cardoza Chronicle by Eric A. Shelman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the second book in the Dead Hunger series. Just thought we'd make it clear in case you found this one first . . .As Flex, his niece Trina, Gem, Hemp and Charlie brave the wild world teeming with the walking dead, they make up the rules as they go along. Flex Sheridan was an electrician before the world took a nasty turn; Gem, an artist...
  • Escape by Owen Baillie

    Escape by Owen Baillie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third instalment in the best-selling post-apocalyptic zombie series set in Australia. Battered, heart-broken and with infected amongst them, the main group begins the long journey south to Melbourne in pursuit of serum supplies and passage towards a safer life beyond...
  • The Gathering Darkness by J.T. Sawyer

    The Gathering Darkness by J.T. Sawyer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fort Lewis: the last bastion of civilization left in the western U.S. The Undead: nearly seven billion hungry flesh-eaters roaming the world. Carlie Simmons and her elite team: unstoppable and perhaps humanity’s final hope. With research for the antidote underway, Carlie and her team at Fort Lewis face a new threat from an emerging force in southeastern Washington...
  • The Dead Years - RETRIBUTION - Book 7 by Jeff Olah

    The Dead Years - RETRIBUTION - Book 7 by Jeff Olah

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. What would YOU do... How would YOU Survive? Book 7 (RETRIBUTION) begins with Megan and Eleanor having been abducted by those who ravaged their beach-side community and subsequently charged off into the cover of darkness...
  • Dead End by Flint Maxwell

    Dead End by Flint Maxwell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The chances of a fairytale ending in a post-apocalyptic wasteland are slim to none. But so are the chances of surviving hordes of zombies while traveling across the country. So, for Jack Jupiter, the chances mean nothing. He hasn't stopped before and he doesn't plan on stopping now, either...
  • The Scattered and the Dead Book 2.5 by Tim McBain, L.T. Vargus

    The Scattered and the Dead Book 2.5 by Tim McBain, L.T. Vargus

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Catch up with Izzy, Erin, Baghead, and Delfino in the fifth volume in The Scattered and the Dead series. Endings and beginnings. The road trip from hell continues as planned. Delfino shares revelations from his past as Baghead begins to recover from his injury.But there's a problem. They're being followed...
Fantastic book recommendations by book lovers for book lovers.
Find out more about thebooknaut.com.



Looking for more inspiration? Enter another book title to get more suggestions on what to read next.


Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.