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The Undead Day Fifteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the post apocalyptic world moves into the third week, Howie is starting to feel the pressure. New faces, new rules and the infection continues its deadly evolution...Categorized as:
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The Undead Day Sixteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new landscape was formed after the storm, and with it the promise of a new beginning.One race to dominate this land. One race to survive.Words were uttered beneath the Saxon while Howie fought the undead. Words that brought a whole new pressure.To be relentless and unceasing. To charge forward and never give up. To do what it takes to survive.That pressure was building and it became too much...Categorized as:
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'Till Death Do Us Part by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBT, Gary and Mrs. Deneaux race to the Talbot compound in a desperate bid to turn the tides of a lost war. Is Michael dead? Is the question plaguing the Talbots as they prepare for the final showdown with a merciless enemy hell bent on their absolute destruction...Categorized as:
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![Empire of the Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
Empire of the Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies. The ARISEN series returns - putting Alpha team, MARSOC, and One Troop Royal Marines face-to-face with their most lethal adversaries ever - in the most blistering and heart-stopping chapter yet of the epic saga...Categorized as:
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![Extinction Ashes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri]()
Extinction Ashes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ashes have fallen and the dust clears to a startling discovery. . . . Beyond the reach of the nuclear infernos, the masterminds survived and continue their assault on outposts across the Allied States. Timothy Temper and Sergeant Ruckley narrowly escaped one of those attacks. On the run from hostile forces, they fight to get an urgent message to command-the monsters aren't the only threat...Categorized as:
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![Alive by Courtney Konstantin]()
Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth...Categorized as:
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![Death of Empires by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
Death of Empires by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies.With over 175,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military zombie-apocalypse series returns, powering toward its epic and cataclysmic conclusion...Categorized as:
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![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 ratingsThe 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... -
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The Apocalypse Sacrifice by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith people fleeing the valley in droves and Estes no longer the safe haven it had once been, Neil Martin must make some hard choices. His group has dwindled to seventy homeless refugees who have very little left to survive on. They desperately need to find a place to call home before their many enemies realize how defenseless they truly are...Categorized as:
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The Apocalypse Revenge by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor 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...Categorized as:
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The Flood by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsLONDON UNDER SIEGEWith the tide of dead lapping at the walls of London, Major Jameson must decide whether to roll the dice and lead One Troop on a desperate mission into the fallen Russian Empire, to retrieve a designer pathogen so lethal it even kills the dead..Categorized as:
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Deathmatch by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHumanity's most fearsome enemy is no longer death. ALPHA AND MARSOC MEET THEIR MATCH Lurking in the bush is the dark shadow cast by the operators – a terrifying force every bit their equal in skill, ferocity, and sheer resolve… but utterly unconstrained by humanity, compassion, or brotherhood...Categorized as:
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![The End Has Come and Gone by Mark Tufo]()
The End Has Come and Gone by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsShe is coming for you...Categorized as:
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The Apocalypse Fugitives by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeaten and battered in mind and body, the fugitives limp west, unaware that the human world is fading all around them, unaware that the last remnants of the goodness of man is being ground under the heel of evil at every turn...Categorized as:
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![Nemesis by Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
Nemesis by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsARISENHope Never Dies.Africa Wasn't Ready.Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground.Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity...Categorized as:
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![Cataclysm by Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
Cataclysm by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHope Never Dies.This is the end game - and it's not going well.The battle to keep the undead tide from the walls of London is lost. Africa is a deadly hall of mirrors, leaving Alpha team riven with dissension and doubt. And the one man who might save the world is crashing to Earth half a world away. Only our greatest warriors can walk through this fire.Betrayal. Chaos. Courage...Categorized as:
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![Warrior Within by James N. Cook]()
Warrior Within by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are those who do not wish for peace.As the Free Legion declares war on the survivors of Hollow Rock, Gabriel and Eric find themselves drawn ever deeper into the growing conflict. Aided by a fledgling militia, and a small contingent of federal operatives, the two warriors must find a way to defeat an unyielding enemy that threatens to destroy all they have grown to love...Categorized as:
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Allegiance by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the fifth, never-before-published, novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces Captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into a ravenous horde.Through an overwhelming storm of pain and adversity Captain Lee Harden has fought and survived...Categorized as:
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![Convoy of Carnage by David A. Simpson]()
Convoy of Carnage by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe first book in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world were fiendishly clever. After decades of planning, the contagion was unleashed and overnight hundreds of millions died and came back as rampaging, undead monsters...Categorized as:
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Rage on the Rails by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 3 of 3 The finale of the Zombie Road tale. It's been a month since the outbreak and the survivors of the zombie apocalypse have started a new life in a walled city. There are still a few enemies that need to be dealt with, the kind that can think and plan, and they can be more devastating than a horde of the undead...Categorized as:
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Bloodbath on the Blacktop by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 2 in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world almost succeeded. They were fiendishly clever but they didn’t take into account the vets, the truckers and the two-fisted fighters who didn’t know how to give up. Gunny and his band of survivors continue their journey along the Zombie Road, saving as many as they can along the way...Categorized as:
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![Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien]()
Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this explosive fourth installment of the popular A Shrouded World Series, Jack is seemingly back from the dead. Mike and Trip are in a desperate bid to help their friend before he falls victim to whatever is plaguing the inhabitants of Valhalla... -
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Surviving the Turned by Mike Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Orphans: Surviving the Turned Vol II picks up immediately where book one left off, with your heart broken and beating...Categorized as:
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Reclamation by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears 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... -
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![Torment by Courtney Konstantin]()
Torment by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**Please be aware that while there are no scenes of rape, there are scenes of attempted or perceived rape. Trigger warning for scenes of torture and physical abuse** It’s been months since the zombie outbreak took over America, and Alex Duncan is slipping... -
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The Apocalypse Renegades by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNothing is simple anymore in the new undead world. Crossing a road, making tea, meeting new people, all can turn deadly in a twitch of an eye. For the Renegades who are unarmed and hounded over half the state by ruthless bounty hunters, there’s only one thing that they can say is simple: dying...Categorized as:
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![Storm of Ghosts by James N. Cook]()
Storm of Ghosts by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor years, exiles from North Korea, China, and Russia have terrorized the Western Seaboard of post-Outbreak America. And for years, the remnants of U.S. military forces have struggled to defeat them. No more. After U.S...Categorized as:
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Mount Weather by David Achord
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 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...Categorized as:
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![The Undead Day Six by R.R. Haywood]()
The Undead Day Six by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night’s manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Apocalypse Exile by Peter Meredith]()
The Apocalypse Exile by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe journey across the zombie-filled country does not get easier for the renegades. The Great Plains, the heart-land of America is now home to vast herds of the undead. These savage hordes sometimes stretch as far as the eye can see. Among them live the Azael—men who have regressed back to the bloody and chaotic roots of our collective ancestors where only the strong or the blood-thirsty survive...Categorized as:
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![The Undead Day Five by R.R. Haywood]()
The Undead Day Five by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night’s manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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![Road of the Damned by Tony Urban]()
Road of the Damned by Tony Urban
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 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...Categorized as:
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![The Undead Day Four by R.R. Haywood]()
The Undead Day Four by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night’s manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Apocalypse Outcasts by Peter Meredith]()
The Apocalypse Outcasts by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere are no Happily Ever Afters in the new Undead World. There are no vacations or time-outs or do-overs. There is only the endless daily grind of living or the shockingly horrific fact of death that hangs over every living creature left on the face of the earth. For some that death lies in a single mistake or a moment of bad luck, or simply in fate...Categorized as:
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![My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga]()
My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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![Trust by D.J. Molles]()
Trust by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDan Molles' stunning Remaining saga continues in this first novella in the series set in a world ravaged by a virus that has turned 90% of the population into ravenous animals.While Captain Lee Harden struggles to fulfill his part in Project Hometown his trusted friend and ally Major Abe Darabie works to hold up his end of the mission...Categorized as:
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![Extinction Edge by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Extinction Edge by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bioweapon designed to save the world...A scientific discovery that will alter human history...And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions...Categorized as:
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![Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom]()
Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPOST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more... -
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Home by Frank Tayell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn an undead world, zombies aren’t the greatest threat. The outbreak began in February. Nations went to war. Governments collapsed. Billions died in the chaos and anarchy that followed. Billions more were infected. They died. They came back. It is now October, and out of the tens of millions who lived in southern England, only ninety people remain... -
![Lost Roads by Jonathan Maberry]()
Lost Roads by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSimon & Schuster has bought Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin: Broken Lands, which will push reset on his YA series Rot & Ruin, about teenagers surviving the zombie apocalypse...Categorized as:
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![The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Bonnie Gill]()
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Bonnie Gill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe law is gone. Zombies are here. Will Raven and her misfit friends survive?Raven Murphy is a prepper, but not for the same reason most other folks do it. She’s the reason her ex-boyfriend went to jail. If he ever gets out, she’ll need to grab her sister and head off grid...Categorized as:
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![The Queen of the Dead by Peter Meredith]()
The Queen of the Dead by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Corsairs have been driven away but only temporarily. Jillybean knows they'll be back in even greater numbers, lusting for vengeance. Yet she is trapped on the hilltop surrounded by thousands of zombies and worse, she is out of medicine and fast becoming dangerously unpredictable...Categorized as:
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![Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown]()
Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverything 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.. -
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Darkness Before Dawn by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinter 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... -
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![Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess]()
Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive 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... -
![After the Roads: Sidney’s Way, Volume 1 by Brian Parker]()
After the Roads: Sidney’s Way, Volume 1 by Brian Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe survivors learned how to fight the infected, but not how to defeat the virus. The Texas Safe Zone is home to four million refugees, trapped behind the walls of Fort Bliss – too many people and not enough food. In a desperate gamble, the Army unit responsible for securing the walls begins to cast its net far and wide for pre-outbreak food storage locations. Not everyone will make it home...Categorized as:
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![War of the Undead Day Three by Peter Meredith]()
War of the Undead Day Three by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the great battle between man and the undead apparently won and the situation seemingly in hand, the president leaps into action to take all the credit he can for saving the country and defending the Quarantine Zone...Categorized as:
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![Escape by Owen Baillie]()
Escape by Owen Baillie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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... -
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Tim2 by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTimothy 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...Categorized as:
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![Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross]()
Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaving 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...
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