World War Z
I remember Max Brooks' World War Z being immensely popular at one point in college. Since one of the big battles in the book takes place at the college I went to (or rather, the college across the street), I just chalked it up to that. And since I wasn't much interested in zombies at that point in my life, I made no real effort to read the book myself. But then my book club chose it for the month of January, so I gave it a try. World War Z isn't at all what I was expecting. The scope is massive, actually covering the entire world. There's a section devoted to the front in the United States, but there's also sections about how the plague started in China and the civil war it sparked there, Russia's attempts to maintain control of the military, Israel's decision to lock their borders, a nuclear war between Iran and Pakistan, the emergence of Cuba as a new economic superpower, the complete disappearance of North Korea, and the evacuation of Ja...