World War Z

From the author who brought you The Zombie Survival Guide comes a collection of stories from the Great Zombie War some time in the future.  Max Brooks writes a great account of the "war" in World War Z. In the future, the zombie epidemic reaches dangerously high levels to the point of the human race almost being wiped out.  The unnamed interviewer in the novel goes across the world to interview different people who have experienced the Great Zombie War and each interviewee offers their own story.  Each story is unique and offers a different perspective of how each country handled the epidemic.  If you're familiar with Studs Terkel's The Good War, this is where World War Z gets a good amount of inspiration to the point of Brooks being labeled "this generation's Studs Terkel" on the back cover of the book.  Since it involves zombies, you can also see a George A. Romero influence, as Brooks slips in some social commentary to the effect that the reader will be aware of it and not be distracted from the overall story.

Zombie parodies in books is reaching out of control levels, but for those who only seek the best, World War Z should be one of the first books to pick up.