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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...
  • Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright

    Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mankind is fighting back. The demons have become less aggressive and confused, but that doesn't mean the war is anywhere close to over. New threats are arriving, and old foes are rallying. Soon, the final battle for mankind's survival will begin...
  • Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook

    Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Herauszufinden, dass ein Nachbar überlebt hat, nachdem die Untoten die Welt übernommen haben, ist nicht immer eine gute Sache. Es sei denn, bei diesem Nachbarn handelt es sich um den mürrischen, bewaffneten und pensionierten Green Beret, Gilbert Donohue. In diesem Fall findet man heraus, dass dieser Nachbar so etwas wie der sprichwörtliche Jackpot ist...
  • 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
  • Midnight by Chris Philbrook

    Midnight by Chris Philbrook

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The 3rd volume of the #1 rated horror series is here at long last. Tap tap tap went the zombie on the bridge. Things are getting stranger and stranger for Adrian Ring, and far more dangerous. It wasn't enough for the people of Westfield to follow Abby and her family home on Christmas Eve and try to kill them. Now they're back for more...
  • Extinction by Iain Rob Wright

    Extinction by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Continue the epic story of mankind’s struggle against extinction in Book 3 of the bestselling “Hell on Earth” Series: EXTINCTION. VAMPS: After dealing with his rival, Pusher, and escaping the clutches of treacherous Prime Minister, John Windsor, Vamps and his last remaining friend, Mass, set out with the mysterious Aymun. A man who came from the gate that imploded on Oxford Street...
  • Defiance by Iain Rob Wright

    Defiance by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Humanity's last chance could be a new beginning. It's been months since the demons arrived and slaughtered the world. The earth belongs to the damned and barely anything of civilisation remains, but some still fight. Mankind's last survivors remain defiant. Nestled deep in the middle of the UK's largest forest, a small group of adults fight to remain hidden in the apocalypse...
  • Dog Dayz by Mark Tufo

    Dog Dayz by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Talbot clan has settled in to life at Etna Station. Mike has earned the rank of Lieutenant, but there’s no time to rest. Colonel Bennington has ordered Mike and his squad of misfits on a secretive mission to New York City where they are tasked to complete a complicated rescue that rapidly becomes nearly impossible to accomplish...
  • Forever Between by Ann Christy

    Forever Between by Ann Christy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four year ago the world was destroyed by medical nanites gone awry, leaving humanity divided into three groups: the living, deaders, and the horrific in-betweeners. Two years ago, Emily braved that dangerous world to try and save a group of children trapped downtown. Now, it’s Veronica’s turn to try and save Emily in return...
  • 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
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Nightfall by Joseph Zuko

    Nightfall by Joseph Zuko

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jim and Karen Blackmore have discovered that when it comes to the zombie apocalypse, there is no such thing as safety in numbers. Between their separate groups of survivors is a city of the living dead, hungry for flesh and growing in numbers by the minute...
  • Uprising by A.R. Wise

    Uprising by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The High Rollers are falling apart. Billy is leading them into war against the wishes of Laura, who is intent on living in peace. Unbeknownst to them, one among them holds the cure that could save all mankind, and there are two powerful enemies that want it...
  • Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the penultimate book of the second series of Deadlocked, the High Rollers struggle to find their way after an enormous loss. They fell into the trap of a madman and the horde is closing in even as the town burns around them. Meanwhile, Hero is dealing with his contraction of what is known as the Tempest Strain, a virus capable of infecting any mammal...
  • 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 Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue

    The Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alaska can be a bleak and dangerous place, especially in the dead of winter. But when hair-raising whispers about an outbreak reach the small harbor town of Whitely, the townspeople face a new, unfathomable fear— the virus is coming for them.Sophie thought life was complicated when she had teen pregnancy and her squeaky-clean reputation as the mayor’s daughter to worry about...
  • 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...
  • Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry

    Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What 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)...
  • Estate Of The Dead by Jake Bible

    Estate Of The Dead by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jace Stanford has lost family, friends, and his arm to the zombie apocalypse that hit his formerly quiet, American subdivision of Whispering Pines. But he has also gained new allies, a new sense of purpose, and something he never in a million years would have thought would be a plus: the cannibal savant known as Elsbeth...
  • War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the early days after causing the end of the world, Kell McDonald was just trying to survive. Time passed, and along with others, a new world grew. Society began to be rebuilt. Years have passed since the mutated organism known as Chimera caused the dead to rise, and on the ashes of the old world, terrifying new forces have come into play...
  • Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry

    Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How 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...
  • United States of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    United States of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    White Flag Of The Dead: Book 4 During the Upheaval, city after city fell to the Enillo Virus, filling the streets with ravenous ghouls. Not even the countryside was spared, as millions of the undead flowed over the land. From the mountains of Appalachia to the beaches of the Atlantic, the East Coast was dead. Two groups must enter this nightmare...
  • Revelation by Kyle West

    Revelation by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive...
  • Survival by T.W. Piperbrook

    Survival by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since leaving the salvage yard, Noah Chambers has been plagued by the infected and hunted by the men who patrol the streets. In order to survive, he’ll need to summon strength he never imagined...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • 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
  • 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
  • What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and Winner of National Indie Excellence AwardNaomi sees her first corpse in a Colorado Springs grocery store, but it won’t be her last. With devastating speed, a plague sweeps first the city, then the state, then the world, leaving less than 1% of the population to go on...
  • Nano Z Trilogy Box Set by Brad Knight

    Nano Z Trilogy Box Set by Brad Knight

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This special edition bundle contains all three books from the Nano Z Series. Fired from his job of twenty-two years, Mack is contemplating his bleak prospects when things take a turn from bad to worse. While desperately trying to survive, he unwittingly helps Amber, a fourteen year old girl with a dark, troubled past...
  • The End Begins by James D. Dean

    The End Begins by James D. Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was always a joke. The “what ifs” and the planning were just conversations to have fun with. Who would be the first to go? Where would people be safe? Who would survive the zombie apocalypse? No one is laughing anymore. Awakening to a nightmare, Dan Foster is forced to flee his suburban Chicago home...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS TO RESIST After freeing Dan and Quinn, Sandy Duncan must fight to escape the lumberyard while protecting the others she came to save. The infected lurk outside the gates...
  • Deluge of the Dead by David P. Forsyth

    Deluge of the Dead by David P. Forsyth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 3rd book in the Sovereign Spirit Saga expands the scope of rescue operations and reveals that there are worse threats than undead cannibals facing survivors of the zombie apocalypse.Follow Scott, Carl and their companions as they struggle to defend a stronghold of civilization in the face of overwhelming odds...
  • Safe Haven by Thomas Baker, Robert Wagner

    Safe Haven by Thomas Baker, Robert Wagner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A day of death. A night of terror. The Outbreak begins. What if you withstood the zombie apocalypse only to discover there were worst monsters that survived?Thousands of years of civilization came to an end in an inconceivably short time. The worst wasn’t that the virus killed its victims, it’s how revived their dead bodies to spread itself around the globe...
  • Reavers by Timothy W. Long

    Reavers by Timothy W. Long

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Machinist Mate First Class Jackson Creed, Christy, and Frosty, have been separated from their companions. With no idea how to contact his friends, Marine Sergeant Joel "Cruze" Kelly, and out of supplies and ammo, the three reluctantly join a group who offer a secure and fortified location...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Day 100 by Amy Cross

    Day 100 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One hundred days after humanity was brought to its knees, Elizabeth Marter has joined a small group of survivors in Boston. Under constant attack from scavengers who live beyond the city limits, Elizabeth and the others desperately try to come up with a plan. But when they learn that a more organized enemy is on the way, they realize that they face a battle for what's left of their resources...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Into the Shadows by Jason D. Morrow

    Into the Shadows by Jason D. Morrow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ability to see into the future has only brought Waverly pain and suffering. She has been wrong about everything. Ethan...Remi...are all of them really dead? Stuck in Shadowface's compound, Waverly meets a girl named Amber who is determined to escape. Through a simple touch, Waverly can see that she is destined to escape with her. But she knows it is not the end. Shadowface must be stopped...
  • Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies by Scott M. Baker

    Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies by Scott M. Baker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One day can change a person's life forever.Alissa anticipated a normal shift at Mass General Hospital until the zombie outbreak spread through Boston like wildfire. When patients and staff in the ER begin to die, reanimate, and attack the living, Alissa must fight her way to safety to avoid becoming one of the ravenous hordes...
  • The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene

    The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty-two short stories based in the world of The Rising and its sequel, City of the Dead, reveal how the undead epidemic plays out across the globe. Nowhere is safe from the zombie invasion...
  • Parkway To Hell by Jake Bible

    Parkway To Hell by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Grove Park Inn. From the early 1900s right up to Z-Day, the Grove Park Inn was the place for the affluent to stay when vacationing in Asheville, NC. Everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to President Barak Obama stayed at the Grove Park. Artists, actors, diplomats, masters of industry, all called it a temporary home at one point or another. But that was before the zombie apocalypse...
  • Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson

    Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following the events of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr...
  • Diary of a Zombie by Sergi Llauger, Daniel Expósito

    Diary of a Zombie by Sergi Llauger, Daniel Expósito

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “The day I died was the day when I nearly lost the little humanity that was left inside me. The eternal promise of leaving as a peaceful spirit was never fulfilled; instead, I became a wandering soul, rooted to the entrails of this wasteland. You might think that smiling in the face of death should be something glorious, but there’s nothing glorious about this...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  zombies  adult  book  drama  fiction  horror  monsters
  • The Seventh Day by A.E. Watson, Tara Brown

    The Seventh Day by A.E. Watson, Tara Brown

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the window I can see her. She looks like she did yesterday. Same Clothes. Same Hair. But today her face is calm, dead calm. All their faces are dead calm until one of us makes a noise. The noise wakes them and then it starts. Their heads jerk to the right three times rapidly as they stand in the most awkward way. That's when we run. That's when we hide...
  • Family by Frank Tayell

    Family by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The final volume of Bill Wright's journal, from the Bestselling series 'Surviving The Evacuation', (78,000 words) Billions died. Civilisation collapsed. Zombies rule the Earth. But there is safety, so Bill and Kim are told, in a small village on the Irish coast...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Against the Current by R.S. Merritt

    Against the Current by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this second installment of the Zombies! series the horror continues as Randy and Kelly continue to battle their way towards Florida, Brenda and the girls keep fighting to stay alive and Kyler fights hard to make his way in this new world order. In this book the struggle to survive continues to get more intense as groups come together to keep outsiders out...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  zombies  adult  apocalyptic  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • The Living Dead Boy by Rhiannon Frater

    The Living Dead Boy by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Josh Rondell is twelve years old and known as the "living dead boy" due to his rampant love of all things zombie. As the head of the Zombie Hunters Club, he's obsessed with preparing for the zombocalypse. Though no one around him really believes that zombies will one day rise to devour the living, Josh is convinced it just might happen...
  • Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore

    Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain after civilization died two years ago, Gus knows that every time he goes down into undead suburbia could be his last...
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