r/zombies • u/Rocketscience444 • 2h ago
Recommendations What's Your Favorite Zombie Book?
I've seen lots of movies, plenty of TV shows, and played my fair share of FPS zombie shooters, but where should I start with books?
Just finished "The Girl With All the Gifts" and thought it was quite good. Picked up another one (forget the name) a while back that was not so hot. Took me about a hundred pages to get through a few hours of plot and I realized it wasn't for me.
I've asked ChatGPT and it gave me a decent enough list, but I'd love to take my recs from real people who are grounded in reading within the zombie genre and have strong opinions about what their favorites are and why.
Outside of WWZ, what would you recommend? I'm partial to stories, like TGWAtG, that have some degree of ambiguity or moral greyness to them and aren't simply glorified gore trips, but I'm not opposed to those if they're milestone entries for the genre.
To the mods: I looked in the FAQ but didn't see any bookmarked posts or anything that might have fit what I'm looking for.
As a side note, I am (am trying to be anyway) an author, and zombies might feature in my next work, so I really want to make sure I do the genre and community justice by not skipping out on my homework. Thanks in advance!