10 best-selling science fiction books like The Living Dead by George A. Romero

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The Living Dead

By: George A. Romero

3.78

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Living Dead by George A. Romero , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Search and Destroy (The Walking Dead: Novels, #7) by Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

1. Search and Destroy (The Walking Dead: Novels, #7)

By: Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.72

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Search and Destroy! The latest in Jay Bonansinga's New York Times bes… read more

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  • audiobook
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • science fiction
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2. The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

By: Carolly Erickson

3.64

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1) by Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

3. Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)

By: Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.86

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Based on "The Walking Dead" graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln ("Tea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • thriller
  • science fiction
Cover of This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Keith Taylor

4. This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War

By: Keith Taylor

4.10

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate cover edition for B074JXHFYK February, 2031: The global population now sta… read more

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  • audiobook
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • science fiction
Cover of Autumn (Autumn, #1) by David Moody

5. Autumn (Autumn, #1)

By: David Moody

3.37

Format: 320 pages,

In less than 24 hours a viral epidemic destroys nearly all of the population. Within moments each v… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • science fiction
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6. Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir

By: Edward C. Raymer

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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7. They Thirst

By: Robert McCammon

4.38

Format: None pages,

A MASS MURDER. A DISAPPEARANCE. A CEMETERY RANSACKED. It looked like another ordinary day in Los An… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

8. Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)

By: Jonathan Maberry

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • science fiction
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9. Monster Island (Monster Island, #1)

By: David Wellington

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to th… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • science fiction

10. The Pariah

By: Graham Masterton

4.58

Format: 226 pages,

The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John and Jane Trenton… read more

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11. Assassin's Code (Joe Ledger, #4)

By: Jonathan Maberry

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Timesbestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledg… read more

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12. The Rising (The Rising #1)

By: Brian Keene

3.81

Format: None pages,

Nothing stays dead for long. The dead are returning to life, intelligent, determined...and very hun… read more

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13. The Wolfen

By: Whitley Strieber

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The savage killing of two New York City policemen leads two detectives, a man and a woman bound tog… read more

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14. Descent (The Walking Dead #5)

By: Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Written by Jay Bonansinga, based on the series created by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Descent… read more

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15. Nights of the Living Dead: Anthology

By: Jonathan Maberry , None

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landm… read more

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16. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
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17. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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18. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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22. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Living Dead by George A. Romero

23. The Living Dead

By: George A. Romero

3.78

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t… read more

Similar categories in George A. Romero's The Living Dead book and George A. Romero's The Living Dead

  • audiobook
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • suspense
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • thriller
  • science fiction
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24. Full Immersion

By: Gemma Amor

3.77

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

3.84

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Whilst Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is perhaps best for his plays such as Uncle Vanya and The Seagull,… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Megalodon vs Colossal Snake

By: Michael R. Cole

4.17

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Brought to life by the miracle of DNA cloning, a 93-foot Megalodon shark has escaped captivity. Wit… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Electric Eel: Bloodbath (Deep Sea Predators #3)

By: Michael R. Cole

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Before the megalodon, before the kraken, there was the incident on Maxwell Island. Powerful individ… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Defiant (After the Tide #2)

By: Anthony J. Melchiorri

4.69

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

In the shadowed ruins of post-apocalyptic Guatemala, a critical CIA operative has vanished into sil… read more

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  • zombies
  • horror
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30. Przeklęte trumny zawsze są zamknięte

By: Klaudia Zacharska

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kiedy w idealnej, kochającej się rodzinie dochodzi do tragedii, na jaw wychodzą mroczne sekrety, a … read more

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31. Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers (The History Press)

By: Dick Roberts

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the Steel City, "Yinzer" is a term of endearment, reserved for the city's most beloved and embra… read more

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21 Top fiction books like The Living Dead by George A. Romero

Transform Your Habits

Search and Destroy (The Walking Dead: Novels, #7)

Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)

Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.86

Transform Your Habits

This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Keith Taylor

4.10

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21 Top fiction books like The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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