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Books like Monster Island: 9 series to read next

Monster Island is horror and zombie horror, about survival, set in contemporary, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Monster Island is 3 books, 2006–2007.

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Jerusalem's Lot
World War Z
The Andromeda Strain
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
The Living Dead (Albemont)
Zom-B
The Strain
The Labyrinth
Rats

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about vampires and grief and loss, set in small town.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

World War ZSeries

seriesMax Brooks3 books2006

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in contemporary.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

About coming of age, set in british isles and big city.

“The Enemy opens Charlie Higson's seven-book YA horror series, set in London after a mysterious sickness turns every adult into a voracious, flesh-hungry threat and leaves children to fend for themselves in a city gone feral.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Enemy →

The Living Dead (Albemont)Series

seriesL. I. Albemont3 books2012

Horror and zombie horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in contemporary and our world.

“Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected.”
from the catalogue description of Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead

Start with Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead →

Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

About race and racism.

“B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school, making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their pursuers.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Zom-B →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires.

“When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather is called in and instead uncovers a vampiric plague beginning to spread through New York City.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Strain →

The LabyrinthUniverse

universe48 books2001

Horror, dark in tone, set in contemporary.

“Here the walls between apocalypses are thin, and the same old hungers press against all of them.”
from the catalogue description

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RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Set in british isles and big city.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Rats →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Monster Island?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Monster Island on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Monster Island?: Monster Island. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Monster Island.
How big is Monster Island?: Monster Island is 3 books, 2006–2007.

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