World War Z

Read this book in January. Pretty cool

Written in a fictional documentary style "recounting" World War Z (Z for Zombie). The zombies are just people who come down with an incurable virus or disease that turns them into walking dead - and any bite or wound spreads the disease. It is pretty cool because it gradually fools you into believing it, the interviews are well written and seem like real accounts of historical details. Lots of grim stories of survival and desperate strategies.

If you are into apocalyptic fiction, this is pretty neat, and it comes off as a pretty convincing "what-if" scenario - where the reactions seem like they'd be the ones we'd make if we were faced with a similar scenario. It definitely makes you think.

The author's/book's website is pretty cool too - you can go through lists of ways in which you could improve your chances of surviving the zombie war and ways in which you should fight a zombie.

I answered a survey on their site and determined that me and my family only had a 36% chance of surviving the period after the zombie war... creepy.

Tips for fighting/surviving zombies can be found in the Zombie Survival Guide by the same author (Max Brooks).