2008 books
37) Joseph Millard, The Gods Hate Kansas, 1964
Invisible aliens arrive in meteorites that crash in Kansas, turn scientists into zombies who are then transported to the moon as slave labour to fix their spaceship, and zombified female scientist is rescued by non-zombified boyfriend. This first appeared in Startling Stories more than twenty years earlier in 1941, is pure pulp now, and provides a case study in how spectacular titles can make weak stories look like good books while giving them extra shelf-life too: this was later filmed as They Came From Beyond Space, and this first edition cover has since become something of a pulp icon.