This is a new feature I developed where each month we will look at our favorite – the best – series in a genre or topic.
The topic here, by my definition, is a series with main characters who are Zombies or dealing with Zombies. These are the ones which came to mind. I enjoyed some more than others. The team had to help me find some of these.
Since I haven’t read everything, it’s a subset of the possibilities. I’m sure I am forgetting some great authors. There are also plenty of authors I have yet to read. Please share your favorites with me in the comments, also.
My favorite Zombie series are (in no particular order):
Broken World White Trash Zombie Ex-heroes
by Kate L. Mary by Diana Rowland by Peter Clines
Newsflesh trilogy Joe Ledger , Rot & Ruin Razorland
by Mira Grant by Jonathan Maberry by Ann Aguirre
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It is no secret that I love a good zombie story 🙂 My favorite zombie author is Sarah Lyons Fleming. She has 2 interconnected series – Until the End of the World and The City. Her new series, Cascadia, will probably have some connection to the other characters as well. The audiobooks for these books are fantastic!
I did love White Trash Zombie and Kate L. Mary writes some pretty awesome zombies. It has been a long time since I read the Razorland series but I remember being disappointed in the final book. I actually had no idea that Ex-Heroes was a zombie series. I will have to check that one out!
I have very limited experience with this theme. However, I found I loved them because really they are like scifi dystopia. I guess I thought of them as horror which I don’t read. The thing is horror in my mind is this scary, sort of no plot story, maybe like movies where the characters are TSTL. So maybe really I would enjoy well-written horror and I’ve been too judgmental. So I’m very happy to have your recommendations of a series you love in this theme.
I can’t believe I haven’t read the Newsflesh Trilogy, its one I hope to start some day ?
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this theme which has some connection with horror.
Favorite would have to be White Trash Zombies because it’s the only series with the main character as a zombie that I can recall reading. I have read many books with zombies in them as the “villain” or as a secondary character.
yes, exactly. I came to that conclusion when I started thinking about this theme.
I haven’t read any of these and not too many Zombie-based books. I nominated the Deadtown series by Nancy Holzner. The main character isn’t a zombie, but her sidekick is. I love the mythology of the series. I highly recommend!
The Nancy Holzner series was on my research list as I had wanted to read it. I stopped reading the first book because the main character wasn’t a zombie and realized later it is highly unusual for the main character to be a zombie so it got lost. But that is a series I plan to read. Great suggestion!
I’ve only read the first White Trash Zombie and own the second but have yet to read it. My favorite is Melanie Karsac’s Harvesting series. It’s so different and includes other paranormal elements. It would be great on NetFlix. Wishful thinking.
I don’t know that one – I’ll have to check it out!
Yay zombies! Have to try the one my Peter Clines you mention.
I had never heard of it until one of my team mentioned it. I really enjoyed it.
I do love a good zombie series! Newsflesh is a favorite of mine. I also loved Red Hill by Jamie McGuire. I think they appeal to me because they’re survival-against-the-odds stories.
Exactly! I’m surprised how much I really love them. I was always thinking horror not survival.
Top faves for me Grant and Rowland. You selected some brilliant series and authors.
Thanks. I do what I can to pick some good series and some are recommended by the team if I am not as well read in the genre.
I haven’t actually read many zombie books! The only one I can think of is Boneshaker by Cherie Priest which I really enjoyed! I never continued with the series though (this was back in high school).
I had read very few myself but I enjoyed researching this theme. I’m not much on horror but I definitely enjoy the survival themes.