52 Weeks of Zombies: A Book List

A year of zombies just fell into your lap! It's zombie-a-go-go! Fifty-two weeks and fifty-two books to satisfy your craving for the infected, rotters, meat bags, the walking dead - any term you use, I've got 'em!

Books are listed in no particular order. Young adult fiction is included in the list. There are overwhelming amounts of great zombie reads. Obviously, I can't include everything. If you don't see a must-read book on my list, please share it with me and the community below in a comment. Thank you and happy reading!

1. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks: The recorded history of the survivors of the zombie epidemic.
2. Feed: Newsflesh #1 by Mira Grant: In 2014, cancer is cured, but a new disease emerges and the infected are walking the earth.
3. Rot and Ruin #1 by Jonathan Maberry: Follow Benny, a teenager learning to survive in a zombie apocalypse.
   
4. Warm Bodies #1 by Isaac Marion: R is a zombie with a problem. Zombies aren't supposed to fall in love, but he can't help being attracted to Julie.
5. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks
6. Cell by Stephen King: There's a reason to hate technology and your cell phone.
   
7. The Walking Dead: Book One by Robert Kirkman: Unless, you've been living under a rock, you know about the cult classic show. ;)
   
8. The Rising #1 by Brian Keene: The dead are coming back from the grave and they're intelligent. Jim is on a cross-country mission to rescue his son. Will he make it?
9. Patient Zero: Joe Ledger #1 by Jonathan Maberry: A Baltimore detective leads a secret government task force to stop a terrorist group from using a biological weapon that turns the living into zombies.
10. My Life as a White Trash Zombie: White Trash Zombie #1 by Diana Rowland
11. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies #1 by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen: A classic with an undead twist!
12. Dead of Night #1 by Jonathan Maberry: What happens when you inject a serial killer with an experimental drug? Find out now!
13. Monster Island #1 by David Wellington: Gary, one of the undead, wakes up intelligent in a world of hungry zombies. Follow his story and a group of school girls turned soldiers.
14. Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S.G. Browne: Great Rom-Com featuring a zombie support group. (I laughed out when I read this one.)
15. Alice in Zombieland: The White Rabbit Chronicles #1 by Gena Showalter
16. The Girl with All the Gifts #1 by M.R. Carey: Melanie is a very special girl.
17. Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson
    
18. Z-Boat by Suzanne Robb: There's nobody to rescue aboard The Peacemaker, but there is something waiting for the crew of The Betty Loo submarine.
19. Bunnypocalypse #1: Dead Reckoning by Cain S. Latrani: Bunny Beckman, a stripper, is now living during the apocalypse of the undead.
20. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden
21. Dying Days by Armand Rosamilia: Darlene Bobich is fighting zombies in sunny Florida.
22. Dead Shambles by Chris Raven: A play in which seven survivors seek protection in their local police station.
23. Love & the Zombie Apocalypse: Zombie Apocalypse #1 by Chelsea Luna: Can Rachel and Cage, two teenagers, survive the trip to Ann Arbor Michigan?
24. Days with the Undead: Book One by Julianne Snow: Five people try to survive the undead.
25. Wither: The Chemical Garden #1 by Lauren DeStefano: Sixteen year old Rhine has only four years to live. Her father is looking for an antidote. What happens to the corpses in the basement?
26. Dying to Live #1 by Kim Paffenroth: Jonah Caine is the lone survivor of the apocalypse.
27. History is Dead by Kim Paffenroth: An anthology. The living dead have always walked among us. Follow them throughout different periods of history.
28. Ravage by Iain Rob Wright: Follow poor Nick as he tries to survive the zombie apocalypse at an amusement park. He's just a regular dude having a really bad day.
29. Hollowland: The Hollows #1 by Amanda Hocking: Nineteen year old Remy is crossing the country and no zombie will stand in her way.
30. Enclave: Razorland #1 by Ann Aguirre: Deuce and Fade are exiled from the protection of the underground in New York City during the zombie apocalypse. Will the two teens survive?
31. A Quick Bite of Flesh by Robert Helmbrecht: A zombie flash fiction collection. Perfect for those times when you want a bite to eat, but are in a rush. Hehehehe.
32. Ashes Trilogy Book #1 by Ilsa J. Bick: Who is left standing after an electromagnetic pulse takes out all of our technology and how will they survive during a zombie apocalypse?
33. Married with Zombies: Living With the Dead #1 by Jesse Petersen: A couple in counseling and on the verge of divorce must survive the zombie apocalypse.
34. Red Hill #1 by Jamie McGuire: Will they survive the zombie apocalypse at Red Hill Ranch?
35. Love and Decay #1 by Rachel Higginson: Zombies can ruin a teenage girl's happily ever after!
36. The Forest of Hands and Teeth #1 by Carrie Ryan: Mary must face the truth about The Forest of the Hands and Teeth and choose between her village or her own future.
37. Strange Angels #1 by Lili St. Crow: Dru must learn to live in the zombie apocalypse without her dad. Will she learn how to use her special gifts?
38. Soulless by Christopher Golden: A mass seance is being broadcast in Times Square. What happens next?
39. Zombie Blondes by Brian James: High school was never scarier.
40. Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez: Zombies might be dining there. You never know. Undead cattle? Are those a real worry? Read to find out.
41. Day By Day: Armageddon #1 by J.L. Bourne: One man's personal journal of the zombie apocalypse.
42. The Enemy #1 by Charlie Higson: Teens in London fight their way through the zombie apocalypse from a supermarket to Buckingham Palace. Will they make it? Will they be safe?
43. Dead Sea by Brian Keene: Will the survivors be able to escape from the old ship they've taken refuge in or will the zombies win?
44. Living Dead #1 by John Joseph Adams: A zombie shorts anthology.
45. Zombies Vs. Unicorns by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier: Which do you think is better? Zombies or unicorns? An anthology.
46. Generation Dead #1 by Daniel Waters: The teenagers aren't staying dead!
47. This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers: Six students must survive the zombie apocalypse.
48. The Remaining #1 by D.J. Molles: The Captain waits in his bunker. He'll open the steel door soon. What will he find?
49. Sabriel: Abhorsen #1 by Garth Nix: Sabriel must enter the Old Kingdom to search for her father, Abhorsen. Sometimes the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear. Will she survive and find her father?
50. Working Stiff: Revivalist #1 by Rachel Caine: Bryn Davis discovers a drug that resurrects the dead while working at the mortuary. Now she's in a race to take down the pharmaceutical company that owns the drug patent before she becomes a zombie herself!
    
51. Dead in the West by Joe R. Lansdale: An Indian medicine man has put a curse on a Mud Creek, Texas and the preacher is the only one that can save them from turning into the undead!
52. Book of the Dead by John Skipp and Craig Spector: An anthology of shorts. What really happened on that first Night of the Living Dead in George Romero's cult classic?