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Slow Burn Books in Order

11 books from Slow Burn (2013) to Mark's Damnation (2026). Rated 4.7 across 4,327 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Slow Burn

    Book 1 2013 3.8 (182)

    A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels....

  2. Slow Burn

    Book 2 2013 4.5 (60)

    They're not the mindless cannibals that most infected are. Nevertheless, their band of survivors, fearful about the trio's infections, have ostracized them....

  3. Slow Burn

    Book 3 2013 4.6 (53)

    After seeing the carnage at the dormitory, a raging, vengeful Zed wants only to kill Mark, his nemesis and the former leader of the ROTC squad....

  4. Slow Burn: Dead Fire

    Book 4 2014 4.6 (333)

    Dead Fire picks up following an infected attack on Sarah Mansfield's fortified house, during which three people seek shelter with Zed Zane and his fellow survivors....

  5. Slow Burn: Torrent

    Book 5 2014 4.6 (291)

    Following his none-too-soon reunion with his friends at the safe house, Zed is hoping things can finally fall into a stable routine, but in post-virus Austin, things are far from stable....

  6. Slow Burn

    Book 6 2013 4.6 (271)

    Zed and Murphy are trying to find their surviving friends to finally get out of Austin and head west to safety, away from the zombie hordes....

  7. Slow Burn: City of Stin, Book 7

    Book 7 2015 4.4 (237)

    In the aftermath of the battle for Monk's Island, Murphy has been nursing Zed back to health in a remote house at the west end of the lake....

  8. Slow Burn: Grind, Book 8

    Book 8 2015 4.6 (231)

    It's time for revenge. Zed's animosity toward Mark has been simmering through the deaths of too many of his friends....

  9. Sanctum

    Book 9 2016 4.7 (232)

    With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station to do their small part in salvaging humanity's future....

  10. Firestorm: A New Slow Burn Apocalyptic Adventure

    Book 10 2021 4.8 (2.4k)

    Fourteen years have passed since the virus ripped through the global population, crushing the modern world and leaving the cities crawling with the infected....

  11. Mark's Damnation

    Book 11 2026 5.0 (4)

    Before the apocalypse, they called him a monster. When the world ended, they needed him to be one.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Slow Burn is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.