For some a zombie apocolypse is the most terrifying way to imagine the world ending. A world full of human undead would be a living nightmare but a house full of zombie books is one of our wildest dreams.

Every year thousands of books go out-of-print and yet many of them deserve wider exposure. AbeBooks has chosen 25 books we would raise from the dead and reprint if we were a mad scientist. Our reasoning is that demand remains strong for this selection of literature as we see buyers scouring the world’s used and rare booksellers.

Read our list of books we would bring back from the dead