Books like Dread Nation
After the dead rose at Gettysburg and ended the Civil War, Jane McKeene, a Black girl trained at a combat school to protect white people from the shamblers, is sent to a town in Kansas.
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Rot & Ruin
Benny Imura, fifteen, needs a job in his fenced town in a zombie-ridden California, and reluctantly becomes an apprentice to his older brother Tom, a zombie hunter.
Patient Zero
Joe Ledger, a Baltimore detective, is recruited by a secret agency after he kills a terrorist who then gets back up, and learns of a bioweapon that turns people into the walking dead.
The Amulet of Samarkand
In a London ruled by magicians, Nathaniel, a young apprentice humiliated by the powerful Simon Lovelace, summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, and sends him to steal Lovelace's amulet.
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Mary lives in a fenced village ruled by the Sisterhood, surrounded by a forest of the Unconsecrated, and dreams of the ocean her mother told her about.
Feed
In 2039, twenty years after cures for cancer and the common cold combined into a virus that raises the dead, the blogging siblings Georgia and Shaun Mason are picked to follow a presidential campaign.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Rick Grimes, a small-town Kentucky deputy, wakes from a coma in hospital to find the dead walking, and sets out to find his wife and son.
Dead Witch Walking
Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter for Cincinnati's Inderland Security, quits to go independent, and her old employer puts a price on her head, leaving her to survive with a living vampire and a foul-mouthed pixy as partners.
The Boy on the Bridge
Twelve scientists and soldiers cross Britain in an armoured lab called the Rosalind Franklin, looking for a cure for the hungry plague, and Stephen Greaves, a gifted teenage boy among them, finds something new.
The Rising
After a demonic force reanimates the dead all over the world, Jim Thurmond, a construction worker in West Virginia, sets out across a ruined America to find his young son, who has called him from New Jersey.
Warm Bodies
R, a zombie who can't remember his name, eats the brain of a young man and, flooded with his memories, saves the man's girlfriend, Julie, and falls for her.
Steelheart
Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.
A Master of Djinn
A queer woman detective investigates a locked-room murder in a 1912 Cairo powered by djinn, automatons, and revolutionary politics.