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I am stupidly fond of 'World War Z'. Subtitled 'An Oral History of the Zombie War'. I know, I know; sounds like utter trash and yet—set aside the zombies if you can—it's fabulous. Max Brooks has framed this novel as a true account of the zombie plague, recorded in the decade after the war was declared won. It's framed as an oral history, so the texture of the book is dense and rich with many voices: the soldier, the mother, the politician, the scientist, the teenage cannibal, the blind Japanese horticulturalist, the Deep Submergence Combat Corp diver. All those first person voices, all survivors—it's fascinating and remarkably moving. I've read this in hardcopy a couple of times and then found it on Audible's top audiobooks of all time list—at #3. It's really that good.