Thursday, December 23, 2010

Caution: Zombie Crossing


If You Like Zombies ...

Then You Might Like One Of Our Favorite Zombie Books!

  1. Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby

While trying to cast a love spell on her date on the eve of the senior prom, Mia inadvertently infects her entire high school class with a virus that will turn them all into zombies.


  1. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

From the author of The Zombie Survival Guide : This is the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat told through a series of first-person accounts. (Warning this book is located in the Adult Department so it may not be suitable for younger readers.)


  1. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

This book prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. It outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack, and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. (Warning this book is located in the Adult Department so it may not be suitable for younger readers.)

  1. Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow (not solely zombies but does include them here and there)

Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.


  1. The Enemy by Charlie Higson

After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.

  1. Zombie Blondes by Brian James

Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.


  1. My So-Called Death by Stacey Jay

After dying in a cheerleading accident Karen turns into a zombie and enrolls at a boarding school for the undead where she uncovers a murder mystery.


  1. You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay

Megan Berry can communicate with the Undead and teams up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies.


  1. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman

A Graphic Novel! Read the book that the TV show is based off of! (Warning this book is located in the Adult Department so it may not be suitable for younger readers.)


  1. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.



  1. Sabriel by Garth Nix (A fantasy novel with animated dead fights)

Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

  1. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. ( Book 2 is called The Dead Tossed Waves and book 3 is called The Dark and Hollow Places)



  1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith

A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. (Prequel is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies : Dawn of the Dreadfuls)




  1. Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.




Do you have a favorite zombie title?
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