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Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith · 2009 · US · horror · romance
★ 3.32 Goodreads · 143,441 ratings

Austen's novel with zombies: the Bennet sisters, trained in the deadly arts in China, defend Hertfordshire from the unmentionables while Elizabeth spars with Mr Darcy.

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12 books for readers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen · 1817 · UK 94% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 474,548 ratings
shares: parody, Regency, courtship · hopeful, ironic

A young woman raised on gothic novels arrives at a country estate expecting dark secrets and discovers instead the real dangers of misjudging people.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813 · UK 94% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 5,032,509 ratings
shares: Regency, courtship, enemies to lovers · romance-driven, story-driven

Elizabeth Bennet, the witty second of five unmarried sisters, and Mr Darcy, a proud and wealthy gentleman, misjudge each other badly, and only slowly learn how wrong they both were.

Heartstone

Elle Katharine White · 2016 · US 90% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 5,677 ratings
shares: courtship, enemies to lovers, retelling · speculative, story-driven

In a world of gryphons and dragons, Aliza Bentaine's family hires a band of monster hunters to protect their land, among them Alastair Daired, a proud dragonrider.

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion · 2010 · US 89% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 110,586 ratings
shares: zombie, retelling, zombies · easy read, clear-cut

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.

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons · 1932 · UK 88% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 56,996 ratings
shares: parody, comic · clear-cut, exterior

Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.

The Princess Bride

William Goldman · 1973 · US 88% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 965,768 ratings
shares: parody, comic · easy read, exterior

A father reads his son the 'good parts' of an imaginary Florinese classic, and the framing and the fencing and the Sicilian and the six-fingered man turn out to be the most quoted comic fantasy in English.

Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 2015 · US 88% match ★ 4.06 Hardcover · 569 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Simon Snow
shares: parody, enemies to lovers · easy read, romance-driven

Simon Snow, the worst Chosen One ever chosen, starts his last year at the Watford School of Magicks dumped by his girlfriend and missing his roommate Baz, a vampire he is sure is plotting against him.

The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey · 2017 · UK 87% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 31,386 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in The Girl with All the Gifts
shares: zombie, zombies · easy read, speculative

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.

Half a Soul

Olivia Atwater · 2020 · Canada 86% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 89,897 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Regency Faerie Tales
shares: Regency, courtship · clear-cut, easy read

Ever since a faerie lord took half her soul when she was a child, Theodora Ettings has felt very little, which makes her London Season awkward, until she meets Lord Elias Wilder, the rude, unfashionable magician who might help her.

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Max Brooks · 2003 · US 86% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 106,512 ratings
shares: zombie, parody · exterior, clear-cut

A deadpan survival manual for the zombie apocalypse, written with meticulous pseudo-military detail.

Eric

Terry Pratchett · 1990 · UK 85% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 84,429 ratings
Book 9 of 41 in Discworld
shares: parody, retelling, comic · exterior, low-key

Rincewind is dragged to Hell itself, where a bored teenage demon king wants someone to show him a good time.

Dread Nation

Justina Ireland · 2018 · US 84% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 36,771 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Dread Nation
shares: zombie, zombies · action-packed, easy read

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.