13 books like Living with the fall

What to read after Living with the fall — 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

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, Dystopias, 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

I Am Legend Richard Matheson · 1954 · ★ 4.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Epidemics, Zombies

Life after Bryan Way · 2013 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Moderate College student Jeff Grey comes home to be confronted by something he'd only read about in fiction and seen in movies: Zombies. Despite lungs beset by asthma and a total lack of survival skills, his lifelong desire to endure an undead apocalypse sees him unite a small group of acquaintances, but with the town quarantined as emergency infrastructure breaks down, Jeff and the rest of the survivors… Shares: Dystopias, 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

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: Dystopias, 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

The boy on the bridge Mike Carey · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived."--Dust jacket. Shares: Dystopias, Zombies

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 Robert Kirkman · 2004 · ★ 4.3 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are… Shares: Dystopias, Zombies

The Walking Dead Volume 2 Robert Kirkman · 2004 · ★ 4.3 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Moderate An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living. This volume follows our band of survivors on their tragic journey in search of shelter. Characters… Shares: Dystopias, Zombies

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