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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...
  • 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...
  • The End of Everything: Book 4 by Christopher Artinian

    The End of Everything: Book 4 by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They escaped the cities. They lived through the storm. But there are more dark clouds forming on the horizon for Wren and Robyn. The undead have made escape impossible. Ruthless gangs patrol the highways and danger lurks in the shadows. A new friend, a new settlement and things are looking up, though all is not what it seems. In no time at all they find themselves in the worst kind of trouble...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  book  epidemy  fiction  horror  medical
  • Well Fed by Keith C. Blackmore

    Well Fed by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    War pigs. Road savages. And the crumbling asphalt of the open highway. After nearly four years, the zombie epidemic has almost burnt itself out. Gus’s new life on a communal farm is peaceful. The daily routine of policing the fields is rarely disrupted by straying undead. His drinking binges are over. Long days have thrown time over the memories of Annapolis. But this will all change...
  • 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...
  • The End of Everything: Book 5 by Christopher Artinian

    The End of Everything: Book 5 by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Since escaping the zombie infested cities, there has been no respite for Robyn and Wren. Now though, the sisters finally have a chance to start afresh. But the world has other plans. They thought they’d reached a safe community. What they’d found was a powder keg with a lit fuse. Their hardest lessons are only just being taught. With love comes sacrifice. With sacrifice comes pain...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  book  epidemy  fiction  horror  medical
  • 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...
  • Greater Love Hath No Man by R.S. Merritt

    Greater Love Hath No Man by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kyler orbits more closely around Randy and Kelly's world as the chase heats up to find the fugitives and bring them to the senator for vengeance. New territories are opened and the world continues to expand. Loyalties are built and destroyed as everyone struggles to beat their way through this new normal...
  • Still Standing by R.S. Merritt

    Still Standing by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The finale to the Zombies! series brings all the players together for one epic final battle. It's a fast paced slug fest to see if a new world will be born out of the ashes of the old or if the old ways will finally destroy mankind for good. A messy, bloody, dirty battle that has to be fought...
  • The End of Everything: Book 2 by Christopher Artinian

    The End of Everything: Book 2 by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For sisters Robyn and Wren, nothing will ever be the same. The cities are burning, the world is in chaos. The dead are rising...and they're hungry. Safety? Security? These words are meaningless now. They fight, they hide, they run. No rest. No respite. All they can cling to is hope. Hope they can find others. Hope they can learn the skills needed to survive. Hope they can stay together...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  book  epidemy  fiction  horror  medical
  • The End of Everything: Book 3 by Christopher Artinian

    The End of Everything: Book 3 by Christopher Artinian

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before the worst day of their lives, wild horses could not pull them together. Now, nothing can tear them apart...or so they thought. A chance meeting, a bad decision, a stormy night; and the fuse is lit to their most explosive 24 hours yet...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  book  epidemy  fiction  horror  medical
  • Deadbreak by Jorge Sánchez

    Deadbreak by Jorge Sánchez

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's been three long years since Deadbreak. That's what everyone's calling it – the day the dead rose. Every day since then Jeremiah Reid has had one goal: to make his way to his daughter. It's a new world out there and no one is safe. People are meaner, cities are in ruin, supplies are scarce. If he’s going to have a chance he’ll need his wits, a little bit of luck, and lots of ammo...
  • Scorched Earth by R.S. Merritt

    Scorched Earth by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The Keys are an ideal vacation destination until Frank and 50 of his closest friends get stuck there during a Zombie Apocalypse. They think the ride to get there took forever, wait until they try to get out! At the end of their journey lies a meetup with Steve and his crew...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Evolution by Eric A. Shelman

    Evolution by Eric A. Shelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ev o lu tion: 1) A change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift; 2) A motion incomplete in itself, but combining with coordinated motions to produce a single action, as in a machine. Hemp Chatsworth has already figured out how 90% of the Earth's population became what they are...
  • The Chatsworth Chronicles by Eric A. Shelman

    The Chatsworth Chronicles by Eric A. Shelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A gas emitting from the earth's core has transformed 90% of the living into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies, and the remaining 10% are fighting for their lives. Hemp Chatsworth takes the reins in book three of the Dead Hunger series, which finds our small band of heroes growing with each passing day...
  • Blood on the Floor by R.R. Haywood

    Blood on the Floor by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blood on the Floor. An Undead Adventure. Twelve days ago a deadly infection spread across the world. Populations have been destroyed. Law and order are gone. Life, as it was known, has ceased. The infected are now the strongest species and survival has become brutal. Heather has survived by hiding. Hiding is her thing. People are bad. What others do to survive is no concern of hers...
  • Nowhere To Hide by R.S. Merritt

    Nowhere To Hide by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Book 4 of the Zombies! series. This series is meant to be read in order, so if you haven't read or listened to Books 1- 3 yet you're in for a treat! In this addition to the series the world becomes a more complicated place for Kyler as he's asked to do things that are gradually eating away at his sense of right and wrong...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Violence Solves Everything by R.S. Merritt

    Violence Solves Everything by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pick up where Book 2 of the Zombies! series left off. Continue the adventure as Randy and Kelly continue the search for their daughters in a world gone mad. Kyler doggedly pursues his assigned espionage mission no longer knowing whether or not he believes in it...
  • Infected by Frank Tayell

    Infected by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Would you try to save the world? There is an evil cabal at the heart of government. For years it has bribed, blackmailed, and murdered in pursuit of global domination. In an attempt to destroy it, Tom Clemens rigged the presidential election. His candidate won, but the conspiracy wasn't stopped. Framed for murder, Tom is on the run...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Divided by Frank Tayell

    Divided by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It is a week since the outbreak began in New York. The president has been betrayed. The vice-president is dead. The government has collapsed. The conspirators are close to victory. Having narrowly escaped agents of the cabal, Tom Clemens heads to Washington hoping to get word of the conspiracy to the president. The highways become impassable, filled with millions fleeing from the cities...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • 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 Camping Shop: An Undead Short Story by R.R. Haywood

    The Camping Shop: An Undead Short Story by R.R. Haywood

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Camping Shop. An Undead Short Story THE UK'S BEST-SELLING HORROR SERIES By Washington Post, WSJ, Audible & Amazon #1 best-selling author RR Haywood...
  • Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests by Frank Tayell

    Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The battle might be lost, but the war isn’t over. Once it was home to half a billion people. A year after the nuclear war, Europe is a radioactive, storm-ravaged wasteland through which a hundred million undead inexorably march. In their wake, they leave nothing but ruins. Ahead of them flee those few who managed to survive this long. Chasing them are the dregs of humanity...
  • Sifting Through The Ashes by Mark Tufo

    Sifting Through The Ashes by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Etna is in disarray and ripe for the picking. Will the zombies destroy the base and everything inside or will the destruction come from within? Michael is desperate to save his family and friends, will help come from an unforeseen quarter? Everything rides on the head of an unstable needle and one gunshot will change everything...
  • Atlantis by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien

    Atlantis by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jack, Mike and Trip were ripped from their loved ones and thrown into a dangerous world they know nothing about, relentlessly pursued by Night Runners, Zombies and a terrifying new creature known only as Whistlers. Like their own worlds, civilization has collapsed and danger lurks around every corner...
  • 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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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  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...
  • 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...
  • Return of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson

    Return of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If there was one thing Scout Johnson never learned, it was when to quit. Before the dead rose, Scout was a working mom, doing anything she had to do to take care of her family. It was never easy, but she always came through. That all changed when corpses began returning to life...
  • 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...
  • Rocky Mountain Die by Jake Bible

    Rocky Mountain Die by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Asheville to Knoxville, Cannibal Road to the Tomb, Jace Stanford and the Whispering Pines survivors have been on the run and fighting for their lives non-stop. Now, with the plains to their backs, the crew are just steps from their destination: The Stronghold of Boulder, CO. All they have to do is make it through the nightmare that is Denver, CO...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  humor  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • 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...
  • Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies III: Firestorm by Scott M. Baker

    Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies III: Firestorm by Scott M. Baker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will Alissa and her group survive the coming conflagration?Alissa has become used to the daily routine of a world filled with unspeakable horror. However, not all monsters are the living dead. The end of the world has brought out the worst in people, and one group of survivors crave what Alissa's team have and will do anything to take it from them...
  • Dorm Life by Camille Picott

    Dorm Life by Camille Picott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you survive the apocalypse when the only things your companions care about are pot, video games, and beer? This is the predicament Kate finds herself in after running two hundred miles to find her son. Holed up in a dorm with Carter and his friends, she is surrounded by college kids who have no interest in gathering supplies, fortifying their home, or even taking out the trash...
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    apocalyptic  humor  zombies  audiobook  book  comedy  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • Homecoming by Jeff Olah

    Homecoming 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 Six of The Dead Years brings the group back together or at least what's left of them. Mason, Savannah and Lockwood return to the beach house and to the unforeseeable horrors that have fallen on their family...
  • Tim2 by Mark Tufo

    Tim2 by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Timothy lived a life only a psychopathic sociopath could enjoy and understand. When he was bitten on the first day of the zombie-apocalypse he turned the tides on a single-minded virus he affectionately called Hugh. Together they terrorized a city before seemingly meeting their untimely demise. Nobody could have foreseen his resurrection...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • The Ark by Tony Urban

    The Ark by Tony Urban

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They survived the zombie apocalypse, but that might be the least of their problems… After discovering The Ark, a mysterious island compound founded by Ramey's father, Wim and his companions soon realize that it's not the Utopia they'd imagined and find themselves oppressed by the brutal and often bizarre leadership...
  • Cannibal Road by Jake Bible

    Cannibal Road by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forced from their home of Asheville, North Carolina, Jace Stanford's family, along with a convoy of suburbanites, misfits, criminals, and soldiers, must battle their way through the I-40 corridor of Eastern Tennessee...
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    apocalyptic  humor  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Alive for Now by Bob Howard

    Alive for Now by Bob Howard

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B01A4YRRTI Set on the coast of South Carolina, an unknown infection has caused people to die and come back to life as reanimated corpses, attacking any living person. This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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:
    apocalyptic  dystopia  zombies  adult  book  fiction  horror  monsters
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