18 books like I Am Legend

What to read after I Am Legend — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Autumn David Moody · 2010 · ★ 3.7 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate THE WORLD IS DEAD!Two months ago, billions of people were killed by a deadly germ. Days later, they rose up again in massive numbers. Since then, cities worldwide have become rat-infested, germ-filled hellholes, ruled by the living dead.WELCOME TO LONDONA group of survivors are trapped in the rotting heart of the capital, hopelessly outnumbered. They've heard rumours of a safe haven to the north… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Living with the fall Hannah Thompson · 2015 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Flo's dreams of becoming a zombie hunter were shattered by the death of his father a few years back. Left with no choice but to stay where his family needs him, Flo searches out danger to keep his skills sharp. When his luck finally runs out and he is infected by the zombie virus, Flo is slowly drawn into a world he never expected to experience."--Page 4 of cover. Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Aftertime Sophie Littlefield · 2011 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization. Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters--people turned hungry for human flesh by… Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Zombies

Rebirth Sophie Littlefield · 2011 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back. Yet with the first winter, Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the land. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance that can end only in disaster.Now the leader of the survivalist community where… Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Zombies

Xombies Walter Greatshell · 2004 · ★ 3.5 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Henry Cadmus grew up on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams is one he associates with his childhood… and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Horizon Sophie Littlefield · 2012 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As hope emerges from beneath the wastelands of California, Cass Dollar must overcome the worst of what's inside her to defeat the Beaters once and for all. Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Zombies

Autumn David Moody · 2005 · ★ 3.7 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate THE WORLD IS DEAD!Two months ago, billions of people were killed by a deadly germ. Days later, they rose up again in massive numbers. Since then, cities worldwide have become rat-infested, germ-filled hellholes, ruled by the living dead.WELCOME TO LONDONA group of survivors are trapped in the rotting heart of the capital, hopelessly outnumbered. They've heard rumours of a safe haven to the north… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

The walking dead Robert Kirkman · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Purification David Moody · 2011 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle survivors are forced to contend with in a world torn apart by a deadly disease. 99% of the population of the planet has been killed in less than 24 hours. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, the bodies soon… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Zone One Colson Whitehead · 2011 · ★ 3.5 · 265p · ≈ 8h · 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 violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers":… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

World War Z Max Brooks · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate “The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the… Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Vampires and the undead Anita Ganeri · 2010 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in 'Byron' and 'Polidori' to Le Fanu's… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

The undead Jim Pipe · 2011 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Tales of bloodthirsty spirits that prey on the living are told in countries all over the world. But do vampires really exist? What are they? And how do people defend against them? Shares: Zombies, Vampires

The twelve Justin Cronin · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the… Shares: Human experimentation in medicine, Vampires

Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble Zombie P. I.) Kevin J. Anderson · 2012 · ★ 2.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From a New York Times bestseller, "a zombie sleuth prowls the mean streets as he works a half-dozen seriously weird cases" in this urban sci-fi fantasy(Kirkus Reviews).   Single Dead Detective Seeks Clue   Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell being a detective--especially for zombie P. I. Dan Chambeaux.… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

Jailbait zombie Mario Acevedo · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Vampires versus Zombies, round one . . .Vampire detective Felix Gomez has seen a lot of weird things since becoming one of the undead — nymphomaniacs, aliens, and X-rated bloodsuckers, just to name a few — but now he comes face-to-face with the worst sort of undead.To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious teen with clairvoyant powers whose cooperation comes at a… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

The Onts Dan Greenburg · 2005 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin face giant ants, ghouls, zombies, and a treacherous orphanage matron when they leave their miserable home at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage to live with the Mandible sisters in the Dripping Fang Forest. Shares: Zombies, Vampires

That's Spooky Aaron Frisch · 2013 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Moderate Shares: Zombies, Vampires

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