Reading order

The Zombie Survival Guide reading order

Max Brooks

  1. The Zombie Survival Guide2003
  2. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks2008
  3. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attack: Downtown LA2011
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3 volumes
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2003–2011
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The Zombie Survival Guide
Start withThe Zombie Survival Guide2003 · Volume 1 of 3

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Publication order

3 volumes2003–2011Completed

  • A deadpan field manual for surviving a zombie outbreak, written as if the threat were real: weapons, defence, escape routes and a history of “recorded attacks”.
  • Fun to dip into rather than read straight through.
  • Max Brooks later used the same world for World War Z, his more acclaimed novel.
  • The sequels here are graphic-novel versions of the attacks.

Every volume in order

Read: 0 of 3
  1. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
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  2. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attack: Downtown LA
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