Allergies – Zombie Novels

If you’ve been doing a lot of reading this autumn, you might be wondering whether there’s anything new that can catch your interest.

The great news is that there is!

The right zombie novel can make a great difference in your reading options. Finding new and dystopian zombie novels to read in the autumn can be difficult, but it’s not impossible.

Check out these reads.

October 2022 Zombie Novels With Diverse Characters

Broken Undead

Zombies never stay dead.

It’s been a month since the zombie infection took hold of humans everywhere. One month and six days and still we don’t know what started the infection or how far it’s spread. All we know is that we’ve got to take this thing one day at a time if we want to stay alive.

And trust me: we want to stay alive.

Our little group has found ourselves in the heart of an undead city. Trying to make our way around the city didn’t work so well. We finally decided to just try to make our way through. We’re searching for other survivors. We’re searching for food. We’re searching for anything that can help us get Greta home to her family.

None of it is going to matter if the zombies claim us before we make our next move, though.

None of it’s going to matter if we can’t make it home.

Broken Undead features: POC main characters (Winter, Isaiah), an older main character (Greta), and touches on the topic of mental health and wellness, including depression.

Fear the Undead

Zombies never stay dead.

Winter has seen a lot of terrible things since the start of the apocalypse, but the trouble isn’t even close to being over.

After surviving the most horrific farmhouse filled with creepy dolls – why do those even exist? – the group continues on their journey.

Then their car breaks down.

Then one of their members faces an injury.

Then they have to decide whether facing a mob of zombies is worth it to save themselves.

Winter just wishes that the dead would stay dead in Fear the Undead.

Author’s note: this is the fourth book in the Stay Dead series and should be read in order.

Fear the Undead features Black characters, senior citizens, and characters with allergies.

Choosing Zombie Books

When you’re looking for the best zombie books with diverse characters, make sure you take the time to check out dystopian authors who write creatively. There are a lot of dystopian zombie novels available that will help you come up with ideas for surviving the apocalypse and living at the end of the world.

If you’re looking for additional apocalyptic stories, check out these dystopian novels from Amazon.

Red Rising

Year One

Ready Player Two

Zombie, apocalyptic, and dystopian novels will make a huge difference in the way you experience the world and the way you view things around you. Great zombie novels can help you relax while encouraging you to think in new and creative ways.

Zombie books offer a couple of wonderful things to readers.

First off, they’re a lot of fun. In most zombie books, characters do anything from exploring abandoned cities to saving lost children to catching stray cats.

In some zombie books, the characters focus on things like finding good weapons, building new settlements, and even trying to solve the cause of the zombie apocalypse.

If you’re reading a lot of zombie novels, though, you may ask yourself whether it’s possible to find anything with a diverse cast of characters.

For example, are there any books featuring gay survivors? What about characters who aren’t white? Are there any zombie books about characters who are older than, say, 25?

The answer to all of these questions is yes.

Your first stop when looking for diverse zombie books is going to be author L.C. Mortimer. Mortimer’s work tends to be diverse, unique, and most of all, very fun.

Mortimer’s books err on the side of less gore and more character development, so if that’s the type of thing you’re interested in, then it’s time to pick up a couple of books by this American zombie novelist.

Start with a standalone like Beyond Rainbows to experience the zombie apocalypse in a new way. In this book, the characters we experience are living in a treehouse, which would definitely be a fun way to survive the apocalypse. They’re a ragtag bunch of survivors who spend most of their time trying to avoid fighting and instead want to find ways to live with the apocalypse.

Unfortunately for our characters, “normal” died a long time ago.

Once you’re done with Beyond Rainbows, make it a point to read something else by Mortimer, such as her Stay Dead series.

In the first book of the series, Wild Undead, we’re greeted with zombies almost immediately. The main character is just hanging out, trying to enjoy a much-needed vacation, when everything goes wrong. In fact, total hell breaks loose on board the ship.

Right away, we don’t know who is going to live or die, and we certainly don’t know whether they’re going to be able to make it through the rest of the apocalypse.

The next book, Lost Undead, follows our main characters. We get to see them landing on an island and figuring out what’s going to happen next.

Book three has the saga continue. During that book, our team ends up in a city that is all but ruled by the undead. It’s while they’re there that we get to see what comes next for the survivors.

Will they keep trucking on?

Or is this the end of the line for our heroes?

In the Stay Dead series, we have a diverse group of characters, including a bisexual Black female character, a Black male character, an older main character, and a white male character who is allergic to just about everything under the sun.

The most important reason to seek out diversity in books is that representation is important.

Not every person in real life has the same backstory, the same life experiences.

Here are a few diverse characters and where you can read their stories:

Gregory – orthodontist (Beyond Rainbows)

Winter – Black female lead (Wild Undead)

Kyle – asthma (Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse)

Mark – PTSD (Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse)

Greta – older lead (aged 70ish) (Wild Undead)

Isaiah – Black male lead (Wild Undead)

Genevieve – uses a wheelchair (The Chasing of Zombies)

Eshe – lesbian (The Chasing of Zombies)

If you haven’t branched out and tried reading something with characters who are diverse, start with these books.