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Books like Zombie Games: 9 series to read next

Zombie Games is zombie horror, set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Zombie Games is 5 books, 2012–2013.

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World War Z
Zom-B
Jerusalem's Lot
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
Night
Left Behind
Day by Day Armageddon
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Red Hill

World War ZSeries

seriesMax Brooks3 books2006

About war and plague and pandemic.

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

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.”
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Start with Zom-B →

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 →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

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 →

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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Left BehindUniverse

universe63 books1995

Science fiction and dystopia, about faith and religion, set in near future.

“Pilots vanish from their cockpits, drivers from moving cars, children from their beds, clothing left folded where the faithful stood.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Day by Day ArmageddonSeries

seriesJ. L. Bourne6 books2004

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, set in our world.

“An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Day by Day Armageddon →

Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

seriesCarrie Ryan9 books2009

Set in near future.

“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 →

Red HillSeries

seriesJamie McGuire2 books2013

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“Nadie despierta pensando que ese día tendrá que enfrentarse al fin del mundo.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Hill →

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 Zombie Games?: World War Z — the closest match to Zombie Games on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Zombie Games?: Origins. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Zombie Games.
How big is Zombie Games?: Zombie Games is 5 books, 2012–2013.

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