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Books like Warm Bodies: 9 series to read next

Warm Bodies is zombie horror, set in north america, emotional in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Warm Bodies is 3 books, 2010–2017.

“In an abandoned airport where the dead shuffle through half-remembered lives, a zombie known only as R feels something stir when he meets Julie, a survivor he chooses to protect instead of eat.”
from the catalogue description

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Alone (James Phelan)
The 5th Wave
Earthseed
The Ashes Trilogy
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Ship Breaker
Night
The Wolves of Mercy Falls
Pen

Alone (James Phelan)Series

seriesJames Phelan3 books2010

Tense in tone, about plague and pandemic.

“Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion.”
from the catalogue description of Chasers

Start with Chasers →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

Dystopia, about faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Tense in tone.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

Tense in tone.

“The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Tense in tone.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
from the catalogue description

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The Wolves of Mercy FallsSeries

seriesMaggie Stiefvater4 books2009

Fantasy, about werewolves.

“Set in the fictional town of Mercy Falls, Stiefvater has stated that the real town of Ely in Minnesota would be its closest neighbouring destination, with the two towns sharing a similar climate.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Shiver →

PenSeries

seriesFrancesca Lia Block2 books2013

About quests.

“Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who wishes her dead.”
from the catalogue description of Love in the Time of Global Warming

Start with Love in the Time of Global Warming →

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 Warm Bodies?: Alone (James Phelan) — the closest match to Warm Bodies on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Warm Bodies?: The New Hunger. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Warm Bodies.
How big is Warm Bodies?: Warm Bodies is 3 books, 2010–2017.

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