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Books like Resident Evil: 9 series to read next

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

Resident Evil is 7 books across 1 series, 1998–2004.

“The Umbrella Corporation makes cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and — in a laboratory beneath a mansion in the Arklay Mountains outside Raccoon City — something that gets out.”
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The Andromeda Strain
Rats
Jerusalem's Lot
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
World War Z
Zom-B
Monster Island
The Strain
Peeps

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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Set in british isles.

“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.”
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Start with The 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.”
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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

Post-apocalyptic, about coming of age, set in british isles.

“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.”
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Start with The Enemy →

World War ZSeries

seriesMax Brooks3 books2006

Post-apocalyptic, about war.

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

Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

Post-apocalyptic, 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.”
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Monster IslandSeries

seriesDavid Wellington3 books2006

Post-apocalyptic.

Start with Monster Island →

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 →

PeepsSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld2 books2005

“The apocalyptic threat to the world that begins in Peeps continues in The Last Days, which features some of the same characters.”
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Start with Peeps →

Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Resident Evil?: The Andromeda Strain — the closest match to Resident Evil on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Resident Evil?: Resident Evil is 7 books across 1 series, 1998–2004.

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