Series
Books like The Walking Dead: 9 series to read next
The Walking Dead is zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, 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.
The Walking Dead is 11 books, 2011–2017.
“The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it's forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople's amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him.”
from the catalogue description of Rise of the Governor
- Jerusalem's Lot
- Desperation/Regulators
- Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
- The Shining
- The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
- Zom-B
- The Indian Lake Trilogy
- The Passage
- The Strain
- Jerusalem's LotSeries
seriesStephen King3 books1975
Eerie in tone, about vampires.
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- Desperation/RegulatorsSeries
seriesStephen King2 books1996
Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival and madness, set in contemporary and north america.
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seriesStephen King4 books1989
Psychological thriller.
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- The ShiningSeries
seriesStephen King5 books1977
About psychic powers and addiction.
matchedcontemporarydarknorth americatensehorror
seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009
About coming of age, set in british isles and big city.
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- Zom-BSeries
seriesDarren Shan12 books2012
About race and racism.
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- The Indian Lake TrilogySeries
seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021
Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.
matchedcontemporarydarknorth americasurvivaltensehorrorsmall town
- The PassageSeries
seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010
About vampires, set in near future.
matchedsurvivaldarknorth americatensepost-apocalyptichorrorscience fiction
- The StrainSeries
seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009
About vampires and plague and pandemic.
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Read next in The Walking Dead
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 The Walking Dead?
- Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to The Walking Dead on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with The Walking Dead?
- Rise of the Governor. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Walking Dead.
- How big is The Walking Dead?
- The Walking Dead is 11 books, 2011–2017.