Zombies book series in reading order

by Darren Shan

by Richard Kadrey

Robert Kirkman

181 books• 31 series

Robert Kirkman, born 30 November 1978, is an American comic book writer, screenwriter and producer. Kirkman co-created The Walking Dead, Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast, Oblivion Song and Fire Power for Image Comics, wrote Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics, and worked with Todd McFarlane on Haunt. Kirkman is one of the five partners of Image Comics and serves as its COO. The catalogue gathers 181 volumes published between 2001 and 2026, listed as graphic novel and omnibus collections, from Battle Pope, Vol. 1: Genesis (2001) to The Emissary (2026). Charlie Adlard shares the credit on 2 volumes and Sean Phillips on 1.

Charlie Higson

35 books• 7 series

Charlie Higson, born 3 July 1958, is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer who has also written and produced for television. Higson is the author of The Enemy, a young adult post-apocalyptic series, and wrote the first five Young Bond novels. King of the Ants (1992) opens the catalogue of 35 titles, followed by Happy Now (1993), Full Whack (1995) and Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen (1996). The Dalek Factor (2004) appears next, then SilverFin (2005), Blood Fever (2006), Double or Die (2007) and By Royal Command (2008). Spies, zombies, survival and London appear in the subject tags.

Paul Tobin writes comics and graphic novels, with children's fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror and humour among the subjects. The 69 catalogued books start with Hulk and Power Pack Digest: Pack Smash! Digest (2007) and include Thwip! (2009), Colder (2012) and Lawnmageddon (2013). Series include Plants Vs. Zombies, Bandette, Colder, Genius Factor and Adventures of Captain James Owen. String (2025) is the newest title, and Messenger is scheduled for 2027.

Darren Shan

67 books• 7 series

Darren Shan is the pseudonym of Darren O'Shaughnessy, an Irish writer born on 2 July 1972. The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata and Zom-B are the young adult series O'Shaughnessy is best known for. The Saga of Darren Shan became a manga from 2006 to 2009 and a live-action film in 2009, and a prequel, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, followed from 2010 to 2012. Koyasan and The Thin Executioner are other children's books under the Shan name, and Archibald Lox was self-published from 2020 to 2022. The catalogue lists 67 books from 1999 to 2022, with vampires, demonology, zombies and horror among the subjects.

Jonathan Maberry

146 books• 35 series

Jonathan Maberry, born May 18, 1958, is an American suspense author who also works as an anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright and writing teacher. Horror Novel Reviews named Maberry one of Today's Top Ten Horror Writers. The catalogue holds 147 books from The Black Road (2002) to Bewilderness (2026), with Avalon Station due in 2027. Listed series include Pine Deep, V-Wars, Rogue Team International, Rot & Ruin Graphic Novels and Kagen The Damned, and Joe Ledger and Benny Imura are among the tagged characters. Subjects include horror, zombies, vampires, terrorism and superhero comics.

David Moody is an English horror writer born 19 November 1970. Autumn, released free online in 2001, first brought Moody to public attention, and a film version starring David Carradine and Dexter Fletcher came out in 2009. Universal Pictures took film rights to the Hater trilogy in 2008, with Guillermo del Toro and Mark Johnson attached as producers. The catalogue holds 29 books from Straight to You (1996) to Kemberton (2026), with series including Autumn, Hater and Front, and subjects such as zombies, epidemics and survival.

Diana Rowland writes urban fantasy, best known for the Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series. Fifteen books are catalogued between 2009 and 2022. Mark of the Demon (2009) opens the catalogue, followed by Blood of the Demon (2010), Secrets of the Demon (2010), Sins of the Demon (2012), Touch of the Demon (2012), Fury of the Demon (2014) and Rise of the Demon (2022), while My Life as a White Trash Zombie (2011) names the second sequence. Before writing, Rowland worked as a bartender, blackjack dealer, pit boss, street cop, detective, computer forensics specialist, crime scene investigator and morgue assistant. She graduated from the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and in 2005 took first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for the short story Schroedinger's Hummingbird. Rowland lives in south Louisiana.

J.L. Bourne writes apocalyptic horror. Day by Day Armageddon (2004) opened a zombie sequence continued in Beyond Exile (2010) and Shattered Hourglass (2012), with Origin to Exile (2011) collecting part of it. The Tomorrow War books, Tomorrow War (2015), Ghost Run (2016), Serpent Road (2017), form a second series, and Trilobyte a third. Survival, the end of the world and dystopian science fiction are the standing subjects across 10 catalogued titles, the last of them in 2020.

Laurell K. Hamilton

60 books• 11 series

Laurell K. Hamilton is an American writer of fantasy and romance, born February 19, 1963, and the author of two main series. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, a New York Times bestseller, features Anita Blake, a zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant to the police; the series spans novels, story collections and comics, with six million copies in print. The Merry Gentry series follows Meredith Gentry, a princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie who works as a private detective and faces repeated assassination attempts. The catalogue holds 60 titles from Nightseer (1992) to A Glimmer of Death (2026), with Guilty Pleasures dated 1993. The Zaniel Havelock series is also listed.

Gena Showalter is an American novelist, born in Oklahoma in 1975, who writes contemporary romance, paranormal romance and young adult fiction. Showalter sold a first book at age 27 and has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The catalogue lists 116 books from The Stone Prince (2004) to The Kraken Bride (2026). Lords of the Underworld, Alien Huntress, Angels of the Dark and the White Rabbit Chronicles are among the linked series, and vampires and demonology recur in the subject headings.

Peter Clines

15 books• 2 series

Peter Clines built his catalogue on Ex-Heroes, a series that sets superheroes against zombies and opens with Ex-Heroes (2010). Fifteen books date from 2010 to 2025, including the Lovecraftian Threshold novels 14 (2012) and The Fold (2015), plus short stories gathered in anthologies. Los Angeles, werewolves, super-soldiers and Project Krypton recur across the work. Clines, born in 1969, worked as a props master in film for 15 years before writing full time.

Kevin J. Anderson

182 books• 44 series

Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author, born March 27, 1962. Tie-in work covers Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, including comics such as Tales of the Jedi with Tom Veitch. Original series include the Saga of Seven Suns, Saga of Shadows, Terra Incognita, Gamearth and Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, and Assemblers of Infinity was nominated for a Nebula Award. Rebecca Moesta shares credit on 9 catalogued books. The catalogue lists 182 books from Resurrection, Inc. (1984) to Sleep With the Fishes (2026).

R.L. Stine

589 books• 64 series

Robert Lawrence Stine, born October 8, 1943, is an American novelist who writes horror fiction for children. Goosebumps, the series Stine created, sold more than 400 million copies in 35 languages and grew into a franchise of two television series, video games, comics and two feature films. Fear Street, Stine's horror sequence for teenagers, passed 80 million copies and was adapted for film. Stine has been called the Stephen King of children's literature. The listing runs to 590 titles, from How to Be Funny (1978), published as Jovial Bob Stine, to How to Train Your Dummy, scheduled for 2027.

Rachel Caine

63 books• 11 series

Rachel Caine was the pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad (April 27, 1962 to November 1, 2020), an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense and horror. The catalogue lists 63 books under the Caine name, starting with The Undead (1993) and Cold Kiss (1995). Series include Weather Warden, Outcast Season, Morganville Vampires, Stillhouse Lake, Great Library, Red Letter Days and Revivalist. Subjects on file include vampires, weather control, jinn and university towns.

John Ringo, born March 22, 1963, is an American author of science fiction and military fiction, with several New York Times best sellers. The work ranges from straight science fiction to military and political thrillers, and more than seven million copies are in print in seven languages. The catalogue starts with A Hymn Before Battle (2000), followed by Gust Front, March Upcountry and March to the Sea in 2001, and reaches Beyond the Rift (2026). Series include Posleen War, Black Tide Rising, Council Wars, Looking Glass, Troy Rising, Von Neumann's War and Special Circumstances. Subjects include space warfare, human-alien encounters, Navy SEALs and survival.

Seanan McGuire

160 books• 32 series

Seanan McGuire, born January 5, 1978, is an American writer and filker known for urban fantasy. McGuire writes science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the Up-and-Under children's portal fantasy series as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, and the work has earned the Alex, Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. The catalogue records 162 titles, starting with Rosemary and Rue (2009) and A Local Habitation (2010), with A Divided Duty (2026) the newest and A Song of Sugar Sparrows due in 2027. Series include October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, Newsflesh, Velveteen, Alchemical Journeys and Parasitology.

James Scott Bell is a novelist and a writing instructor. Legal thrillers dominate a catalogue of 91 books published between 1988 and 2025, covering the Mike Romeo, Ty Buchanan, Trials of Kit Shannon and Mallory Caine, Zombie-at-Law series. Lawyers, Los Angeles and Christian suspense recur as subjects, alongside a line of books on authorship and craft technique. The run opens with The Night Carl Sagan Stepped on My Cat (1988).

Max Brooks

16 books• 3 series

Max Brooks, born May 22, 1972, is an American writer and actor, and the son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Zombie stories run through much of Brooks' writing. Brooks was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. The catalogue holds 16 Brooks books from 2003 to 2024, beginning with The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (2003) and followed by World War Z (2006). The Harlem Hellfighters (2014) and Tiger Chair (2024) are also listed. Subjects include zombies, war, survival skills, humor and comics.

Richard Kadrey, born August 27, 1957, is an American novelist, freelance writer and photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The catalogue holds 37 books from Metrophage (1988) to In the Devil Wind (2026), including Kamikaze L'Amour (1995), Butcher Bird (2005), Sandman Slim (2009) and Kill the Dead (2010). The listing also includes the Covert Culture Sourcebook (1994) and From Myst to Riven (1997). Series include Sandman Slim, Another Coop Heist, Discreet Eliminators and Carrion City. Subjects include the occult and supernatural, angels, zombies, subcultures and Los Angeles.

Joe McKinney (1968-2021) was a San Antonio author who also served as a Patrol Supervisor with the San Antonio Police Department. McKinney wrote horror, and the catalogue records zombies, epidemics, monsters and paranormal fiction among its subjects, with Texas and Houston as settings. The listing holds 31 books published between 2006 and 2022, from Dead City (2006) to Forlorn Hope (2022), and includes the Retreat series. Anthology volumes in the listing, among them Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, carry other contributors including Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul Kane and Jeremy C. Shipp.

Horror is David Wellington's field. The American writer, born 1971, is best known for a Zombie trilogy and also publishes science fiction under the name D. Nolan Clark. Monster Island (2004) opens the 27-book catalogue, with Monster Nation the same year and Monster Planet in 2006. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, knights and thieves appear in the subject records, along with the fictitious character Laura Caxton. Laura Caxton, Jim Chapel, Ancient Blades Trilogy, Red Space and Cheyenne Clark are the series credited to Wellington, whose most recent title is Erebus-13 (2026).

Bianca D’Arc is a romance writer with an interest in science fiction, fantasy and the paranormal, and brings science into the writing. D’Arc ran a laboratory for six years while in graduate school. The catalogue lists 131 books from Angel in the Badlands / Ezekiel (2006) to Heart of Gold (2026). Subject records cite paranormal romance, dragons, knights, vampires and zombies. Dragon Knights, Grizzly Cove, Guardians of the Dark, Brotherhood of Blood and Tales of the Were, with its Kinkaid Shifters and Redstone Clan branches, are among the series.

Zombies, survival and horror tales are the subjects recorded against Keith Blackmore's catalogue, with comedy listed alongside. The 33 books run from 2010 to 2026, opening with Flight of the Cookie Dough Mansion (2010), The Missing Boatman (2010) and The Troll Hunter (2010), and reaching Breeds 4 (2026). Mountain Man (2011), Leeches (2011), Hellifax (2012) and Safari (2012) appear among the earlier titles. 131 Days, Mountain Man short fiction, He-Dog Chronicles and Isosceles Moon are the listings credited to Blackmore.

Mark Cheverton writes Minecraft adventure fiction for children. Gameknight999 is the central character, across Invasion of the Overworld (2013), Battle for the Nether (2014), Confronting the Dragon (2014) and Saving Crafter (2015), with Herobrine and Entity303 supplying the antagonists of the Herobrine Reborn, Mystery of Herobrine and Wither War runs. Cyberbullying, zombies and video games sit among the subjects. The catalogue holds 31 books between 2012 and 2021.