February Zombie Group Read Nominations

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Please make your suggestion for our February Zombie theme group read. The poll will go up on January 8th.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I vote for Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. I've heard the Joe Ledger series is action-packed zombie hunting goodness.

[Ctgt]

I like that, Lady D.

How about World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I think the movie is coming out soon.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

That's a good one too, Ctgt!

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

I'm not much of a zombie fan, but I am going to nominate I, Zombie by Hugh Howey. I loved another of his books, Wool, so hopefully this one will be just as good.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Zombies... wow... I have a new experience coming. I'll have to go look at my TBR and all of those "Free-books" I DLed from Amazon and see if one looks like a good nomination!

[Kevin]

One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon

This book is not available in ebook format, but can be found used for a 1.00 or 2.00 on Amazon.

One Rainy Night

[Kevin]

Lisa wrote: "I'm not much of a zombie fan, but I am going to nominate I, Zombie by Hugh Howey. I loved another of his books, Wool, so hopefully this one will be just as good."

Hi Lisa,
I'm not a huge Zombie fan either, I just thought it would be an interesting twist to our regular noms.

I have only read one Zombie book, "The Rising", by Brian Keene.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

The Rising looks interesting, I'm still searching for a nomination. I know so little of this Zombie-sub-genre.

The movies are always fun though, so, there should be fun books behind them somewhere! (I am building a list of potential reads from this thread too).

[Grammar*Kitten]

Elements of the Undead Omnibus is a brilliant Zombie novel - it is comprised of three books called Fire, Air and Earth which are all great but a little short independently of each other. – reasonably priced for kindle at £3.18/$4.99 too.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Andrea wrote: "Elements of the Undead Omnibus is a brilliant Zombie novel - it is comprised of three books called Fire, Air and Earth which are all great but a little short independently of each other. – reasona..."

Ah! A new voice, with a good recommendation! Thank you!

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

And welcome to the group.

[Grammar*Kitten]

Zombies are very much my thing - I could probably recommend quite a few! I hadn't figured action/adventure as featuring this kind of action, and it piqued my interest! Thank you :)

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Your welcome,and, it may not be "action adventure" but here, we also celebrate action as it appears in other genres, with in reason of course.

[Grammar*Kitten]

In fact, The New Zed Order: Survive is also brilliant, as is Gray Dogs.

Too many enjoyable zombies, in my humble opinion!

[Eileen]

I'm always in for a good zombie book. Wasn't there a movie that just came out that was made from a book staring Brad Pitt? Does anyone remember the title of the book?

[Grammar*Kitten]

That was World War Z - but it's one of the less-good ones that I've read. It's... a bit boring, if I'm honest!

[Tad]

I second Patient Zero. It's got great action and for the first in a series, it's really well-written and a lot of fun!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Andrea wrote: "Elements of the Undead Omnibus is a brilliant Zombie novel - it is comprised of three books called Fire, Air and Earth which are all great but a little short independently of each other. – reasona..."

We'd probably have to just go with the first book for the purposes of this challenges, so I will add Fire to the poll.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Andrea wrote: "In fact, The New Zed Order: Survive is also brilliant, as is Gray Dogs.

Too many enjoyable zombies, in my humble opinion!"

We appreciate all the options. Which book is your top nomination, Andrea? I'll add that one to the poll.

[Grammar*Kitten]

New Zed Order is probably more action/adventurey, I would say that one!

[Eileen]

Andrea wrote: "That was World War Z - but it's one of the less-good ones that I've read. It's... a bit boring, if I'm honest!"

Thanks, Andrea. I'll try and think of another book to nominate.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Hi David. We really discourage advertising your work on the nomination threads. I am going to have to delete this post because it wouldn't be fair to other authors on the board if I let this one pass. You are welcome to discuss your work under appropriate Folders such as the Author/Reader interface or promotions.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Andrea wrote: "New Zed Order is probably more action/adventurey, I would say that one!"

I'll add this as your nomination. Thanks, Andrea!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

The poll is up. It closes on January 15th, so get your vote in:

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/77223

[Jonathan]

urgh I keep missing out thanks to a lack of notifications from Goodreads even though I keep changing my settings and clicking on the 'email me when people comment'. It's only slightly annoying however...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Sorry about that, Jonathan!

We try to get the nomination thread up the first day or so of the month, and the poll around the 7th or 8th to close by the middle of the month.

I don't like to send out a lot of group messages because I don't want to be annoying.

[Jonathan]

Yeah that's fine, I'm just still trying to work out how to cut back on nominations from groups that I don't really follow as much. I have a select five or so groups that I'm very active in and several I visit semi-regularly. Yet my notifications get bogged down by the ones I visit less regularly despite multiple changes to my settings. It might just be a goodreads thing. Either way I liked the nominations so far, so all is good :D

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Yeah, it's hard to keep up with all the group reads for the various groups I'm involved with. Frankly, I suck at it. I can maybe get in one or two a month, with all my other reading.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Patient Zero won the poll, and the discussion will begin on/around February 1st.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Oh, and FYI, this book is availible at Audible.com for those with credits or cash to burn!