World War Z by Max Brooks (2007, Paperback, Reprint)

World War Z is of course the sequel to the Zombie Survival Guide which is a great work, but World War Z is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. You might know that the book is the "oral history of the zombie war" and it is presented as a documentary of the accounts of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse. I am fan of any kind of post-apocalyptic fiction, and this is some of the best of it. Every page is a mind blowing thoroughly researched work of art. The author takes into account every aspect of every imaginable (and unimaginable) element of human nature, politics, religion, culture, military theory, geography, and history. I pity anyone who reads this book and does not have a basic appreciation of history and military strategy. To them it would just be a story, but it is so much deeper then that. As far as I know, every real world fact that the author dealt with is well researched and accurate. Not only that, each topic discussed is realistically how one would expect it to effect an apocalypse of the human race by living dead. An intelligent, amazing read from cover to cover, you will not want to put it down!