Daniel Waters Books In Order

Generation Dead

Phoebe is just your typical goth girl with a crush. He’s strong and silent. and dead.

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren’t staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed ‘living impaired’ or ‘differently biotic,’ they are doing their best to fit into a society that doesn’t want them.

Fitting in is hard enough when you don’t have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you’re not, it’s close to impossible. The kids at Oakvale High don’t want to take clas*ses or eat in the cafeteria next to someone who isn’t breathing. And there are no laws that exist to protect the differently biotic from the people who want them to disappear for good.

With her pale skin and Goth wardrobe, Phoebe has never run with the popular crowd. But no one can believe it when she falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids. Not her best friend, Margi, whose fear of the differently biotic is deeply rooted in guilt over the past. And especially not her neighbor, Adam, the star of the football team. Adam has just realized his feelings for Phoebe run much deeper than just friendship. He would do anything for her, but what if protecting Tommy is the one thing that would make her happy?

Generation Dead is a sharp, funny, and breathtakingly original novel from an exciting new talent.

Kiss Of Life

The phenomenon that’s been sweeping the country seems to be here to stay. Not only are the teenagers who have come back from their graves still here, but newlydeads are being unearthed all the time. While scientists look for answers and politicians take their stands, the undead population of Oakville have banded together in a group they’re calling the Sons of Romero, hoping to find solidarity in segregation.

Phoebe Kendall may be alive, but she feels just as lost and alone as her dead friends. Just when she reconciled herself to having feelings for a zombie her Homecoming date Tommy Williams her friend Adam is murdered taking a bullet that was meant for her. Things get even more confusing when Adam comes back from the grave. Now she has romantic interest in two dead boys; one who saved her life, and one she can’t seem to live without.

Passing Strange

Karen Desonne is used to pretending to be something she’s not. She s always passed as a normal, all American teenager with her friends, her family, and at school. It cost her the love of her life, and that she s dead, she s still passing this time as alive. Meanwhile, Karen s dead friends have been fingered in a high profile murder, causing new anti zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale s undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the murder was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his anti zombie zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete s girlfriend. Karen s only hope is that the enemy won t realize who she really is because the consequences could be even worse than death.