Monster Island vs Zone One: Which Should You Read?

Monster Island David Wellington · 2006 ★★★★☆ 3.7 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate

It's one month after a global disaster. Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and…

Zone One Colson Whitehead · 2011 ★★★☆☆ 3.5 265 pages · ≈ 4 h 54 m · Moderate

Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been…