Wool
Chet bought me this book and demanded I read it, and honestly that was a good call. The book reminds me a bit of Oryx and Crake, but perhaps that's unfair given I read that one eight years ago and have probably forgotten some important details. The book is well paced and engaging. Despite being as long as many of Neil Stephenson's books, I felt it was a much more approachable read than that. I found the second half of the book a bit harder to read that the first half, because it doesn't pull many punches in terms of the consequences of people's actions and is pretty good at building suspense. There were definitely points where I had to pause because I was pretty sure something bad was going to happen to someone I'd grown fond of. That said, it was still a great read. I've gone and bought the next two in the series because I'm confident I'm going to want to read them now too.