hmmm... not sure how much you'll like my suggestions, but the books that I've liked most that I've read this year are:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Graveminder by Melissa Marr <-- for you zombie folks
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
(I went with the more grown up books and left out any YA fiction, lol)