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  • 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...
  • Bleed by Bobby Adair

    Bleed by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Survive the infection! Survive the Infected! Zed and Murphy are trying to find their surviving friends to finally get out of Austin and head west to safety, away from the zombie hordes. But trouble, their perpetual companion, dogs them at every turn as they discover that infected humans aren’t the only source of mortal danger...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Rite of Passage by Thomas A. Watson

    Rite of Passage by Thomas A. Watson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this Forsaken World, human kind is on the brink of total extinction. The parents of Lance and Ian have made it to the mainland, and must begin the harsh overland journey to their children. Johnathan, Sandy, and the others are unprepared for the expedition ahead. They must gather supplies and fight for every mile toward the cabin...
  • The Ruins 4 by T.W. Piperbrook

    The Ruins 4 by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Escape at what cost? Trapped in a new horror, the survivors struggle to regain their freedom...
  • Britain's End by Frank Tayell

    Britain's End by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Humanity is at a crossroads. Either all will survive, or our species will perish. Anglesey became a refuge for survivors from across the world, but living in the shadow of a decrepit nuclear power station was always a precarious existence. There is only one destination for their final exodus from Britain, but Belfast won’t become their new home...
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    dystopia  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...
  • Make Me King by Keith C. Blackmore

    Make Me King by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the apocalypse, the world’s most valuable resource… is the people that remain. And the knowledge and skills they possess. On the island of Big Tancook, Collie Jones is making plans. She informs the islanders that it’s time to resume her original mission—to find other survivors, screen them, and return them to the island...
  • Crucifixion by Dirk Patton

    Crucifixion by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the pulse pounding continuation of the V Plague series, John, Rachel and Dog have escaped from Atlanta, finding refuge at an Air Force Base in Tennessee. After being recalled to active duty, John strikes a deal with the Army that will help him rescue his wife in Arizona, but all of his plans are quickly put in jeopardy as a second wave of infection rips through the surviving population...
  • 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...
  • The Ruins Book 2 by T.W. Piperbrook

    The Ruins Book 2 by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Who will survive The Arches?A place of recovery has become a place of death as one survivor's worsening illness puts three in danger...
  • Mount Weather by David Achord

    Mount Weather by David Achord

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the ongoing saga of the Zombie Rules series, Zach, his family and friends are lured from their home in Tennessee and relocate to a post-apocalyptic bunker known as Mount Weather, nestled in rural Virginia. They have been promised a better life by none other than the President himself...
  • The Ruins Book 3 by T.W. Piperbrook

    The Ruins Book 3 by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New Threats Await in the SouthHaving endured the battle of The Arches, the remaining survivors journey in a new direction, hoping to find salvation...
  • Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...
  • Road of the Damned by Tony Urban

    Road of the Damned by Tony Urban

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 2 in the hit zombie series readers have described as, "Stephen King's 'The Stand' meets 'The Walking Dead'."In the weeks after a virus decimated humanity and left fewer than 5,000 people alive in the U.S., a diverse group of survivors struggles to stay alive...
  • My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga

    My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A mysterious outbreak has spread quickly, ravaging the globe. The illness is debilitating and deadly. Those who suffer from the virus succumb to a horrible death. Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there. The infection transforms them into an unstoppable force of mindless killing machines...
  • Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry

    Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Benny Imura’s journey through the Rot & Ruin is well known, but who were the others navigating the ravaged, zombie-ridden landscape? Jonathan Maberry returns to fill the gaps in what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and the land of Rot & Ruin...
  • The 40th Day by Deirdre Gould

    The 40th Day by Deirdre Gould

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Everyone here is already exposed. Don’t come here. Your family is dead. Your friends are dead. Do not trust anyone from the City. There may already be people out there who are infected and don’t know it. Do not let them in. Do not let yourself be moved by pity. They are deadly...
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    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • 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...
  • Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace... But when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies!Incursion: Vampire ApocalypseTHEM Post-Apocalyptic Series Book TwoIt's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place...
  • Gabby's Run: Paranormal Apocalypse by M.D. Massey

    Gabby's Run: Paranormal Apocalypse by M.D. Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    (WARNING: This zombie apocalypse end of the world novel from M.D. Massey is chock full of post-apocalyptic werewolves, post-apocalyptic vampires, post-apocalyptic shifters, and other things that go bump in the long dark night of a vampire apocalypse. THEM: Gabby's Run can be read as a stand-alone novel, or as an introduction to the world of THEM..
  • 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...
  • Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies II: Escape by Scott M. Baker

    Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies II: Escape by Scott M. Baker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a world overrun by zombies, breathing, living friends are hard to find. Would you risk your life to save them?Nurse Alissa, her friends, and her cat Archer fight their way through a zombie-infested state to get to the safety of her mountain cabin. It offers sanctuary as well as new challenges as all the routine commodities of the modern world are now luxuries...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  book  epidemy  fiction  horror  medical
  • 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...
  • Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook

    Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can be read as a standalone or companion to the Contamination series...! Don't trust what you eat. Don't trust what you drink. The infection is spreading... In a world plagued with violence and infection, Ken and Roberta Smith want nothing more than to find their son. Having been on the road for four days, they must now cross the remaining three hundred miles of desert wasteland to get to him...
  • Desolation by Bryan James

    Desolation by Bryan James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is lost.The undead blanket the land. The living struggle to survive. Amidst the wreckage and decay, Mike and his friends fight to continue their quest, risking everything to find Kate's daughter...
  • Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross

    Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Having been rescued from the forest, Elizabeth is shocked to find herself living with a small group of survivors. But when she's plunged into an unlikely reunion, she begins to realize that the task of saving humanity might require difficult decisions. Meanwhile, Thomas discovers the truth about another group of survivors...
  • The Promise by Shawn Chesser

    The Promise by Shawn Chesser

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Edited by Monique Happy Editorial Services 107,000 words Army veteran Lee Riker is staying in an Atlanta shelter and supporting himself with the odd carpentry job when his sister, Tara, summons him home to Middletown, Indiana for the reading of their mother’s will...
  • Confrontation by T.W. Brown

    Confrontation by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Several months have passed since the dead began to walk. The first winter has taken its toll in more ways than one as humanity continues to struggle to survive. Not every threat to humanity comes form the undead as so many have discovered man's ability to sink into depravity with the absence of law and order. Time and again survivors have fought, run. and regrouped...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Unleashed by Dirk Patton

    Unleashed by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    John Chase has just arrived in Atlanta on a business trip when America experiences the worst attacks in history. Nuclear bombs destroy cities and the widespread release of nerve gas sends the majority of the surviving population into a murderous rage...
  • Coming of Age by Thomas A. Watson

    Coming of Age by Thomas A. Watson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a meteor released a bacterium that caused the dead to rise, the world Ian and Lance knew was turned upside down. Forced to flee from the sulfurous Stinkers, the teenagers narrowly avoided their own demise on the way to an isolated cabin. With their parents lost to contact, the boys must lead their battered group in survival...
  • Zfinity by David Achord

    Zfinity by David Achord

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zombie Rules Book 3It's now two years since the zombie apocalypse changed the world. Survival is precarious for Zach Gunderson and his friends. They are encountering zombies who are evolving into something more than mindless automatons and the group dynamic is threatened by the revelation of a murderer in their midst...
  • The Last Refuge by T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair

    The Last Refuge by T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all ancient secrets are lost. Father Winthrop’s insanity and eloquence turn a rabble of starving militiamen into an army with a new purpose. With the spore eating away at William’s humanity, he finds a new place in the world as the survivors from the Ancient City expeditions discover a remnant of the past that could change everything...
  • Days 9 to 16 by Amy Cross

    Days 9 to 16 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Finally realizing that she has to leave the city, Elizabeth sets out alone along a deserted road. Eventually, however, she encounters some fellow survivors, and before long she's taken to a remote farmhouse where a small community is struggling to take shape. She soon discovers, however, that this particular farmhouse hides some dark secrets...
  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path...
  • Escape by T.W. Piperbrook

    Escape by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dan and Quinn Lowery may have escaped the initial infection, but their journey is far from over.Their once-safe location has been compromised, overrun by the agents and the infected.Now, in order to survive, they must first escape..
  • Unsafe Haven by Frank Tayell

    Unsafe Haven by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “Sooner or later, you have to trust someone.”A new novel, featuring new characters (and a few old) in the Amazon UK #1 Post-Apocalyptic series “Surviving The Evacuation”. Set during the first nine months of the outbreak, in Cumbria, Scotland and Wales.“There are no reported outbreaks in the UK or Ireland.” That is what the government broadcast. Nilda didn’t believe it...
  • Storm by John O'Brien

    Storm by John O'Brien

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A vengeful darkness… Gathers in the night… One threat has been destroyed - another grows stronger. Even though Jack and the teams have won a major confrontation, their lives still hang by a thread. There are decisions to be made, and ones that have never been more critical. Leonard continues to try to keep his crew together after being hit by another soul-shattering blow...
  • Hellifax by Keith C. Blackmore

    Hellifax by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Red Adept Select – “Voted Outstanding in Genre”A serial killer stalks the ice-glazed streets.Half-frozen deadheads choke the avenues.Infected vermin rise from the labyrinth of sewer systems, hungry for warm flesh.And a handful of survivors struggle to escape and find someplace safe. In his hunt for Tenner, Scott discovers he must contend with all of this, before things truly get worse.Welcome...
  • The Last Candidate by Frank Tayell

    The Last Candidate by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Whoever wins the election, humanity will lose. Nine months after the outbreak, ten thousand survivors from across the globe have found a refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Hordes of the undead ravage the wastelands of Britain and Ireland. Satellite images show that the rest of the world is no better...
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    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Countdown by Mira Grant

    Countdown by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.This is the story of how we rose.When will you rise?Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed...
  • Search and Rescue by Frank Tayell

    Search and Rescue by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all survivors are to be trusted. Not all the conspirators are dead. February: Within hours of the outbreak, the quarantine was sabotaged. Within days, the world was gripped by civil war. March: When the lights finally went out, billions were dead. Millions more had joined the ranks of the undead. May: Anglesey has become home to nearly ten thousand survivors from across the Atlantic...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Ireland by Frank Tayell

    Ireland by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They said there was no outbreak in Ireland. They lied. Within a few minutes of the outbreak, Manhattan was overrun by the living dead. Within a few days, the undead had reached every corner of the globe. There was no evacuation of Northern Ireland, and no quarantine in the Republic...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • The Divide by Erica Stevens

    The Divide by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In less than a day everything they've ever known has vanished and the world is in chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it’s not only the crumbling earth, and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also something unseen and even more lethal...
  • Anglesey by Frank Tayell

    Anglesey by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trapped. Alone. Unconcerned. Eight months after the outbreak, Bill Wright is trapped during a survey mission of Ireland. Surrounded by the undead, low on food and lower on water, he’s been in this situation before. Unlike before, help is only a rifle shot away. While waiting for the rescue he’s sure will come, he records the turbulent events since his last entry...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Infected by Bobby Adair

    Infected by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Slow Burn: Infected picks up the story of Zed, Murphy, and Jerome where Slow Burn: Zero Day ended.All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus. They’re not the mindless cannibals that most infected are. Nevertheless, their band of survivors, fearful about the trio’s infections, have ostracized them...
  • The Dark Knight by Nick Cole

    The Dark Knight by Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dark Knight by Nick Cole continues the story begun in The Red King as the survivors band together to build a modern-day castle against a tide of dark forces overrunning Southern California...
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