World War Z

Back when I read this for the first time, in 2012, I said World War Z by Max Brooks was the best book I'd read all year (and it was December) - and I went into it this time, still thinking it was one of the best books I'd ever read. And it is really well written, very clever, really interesting and very impactful - but it's also incredibly gore, extremely unpleasant, wildly depressing and all-round grim. And I'm just not in the mood for that at the moment, so I didn't finish it this time around.