"Free: the Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson was highly readable and quite interesting. He explores how companies have used "free" over the years in order to make money, and explains how the current global economy depends on free. Unlike some nonfiction it was never dry or boring.
"The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan was a YA mixture of M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" and a bad zombie movie. I didn't care for it at all. The premise is ridiculous: a group of villagers have fenced themselves in from the forest where the unconsecrated (zombies) live, and are ruled over by a group of nuns known as the Sisters. Mary dreams of a world her mother told her about, before the unconsecrated, where there were oceans and beaches, and she yearns to escape and see these places for herself. From there the story takes some strange turns and never really gels: a lot goes unexplained and makes no sense, and I'm used to suspending belief in my fiction! The main character, Mary, is completely annoying and has no redeeming or endearing qualities whatsoever--two different brothers are both in love with her, willing to risk their lives for her, and she really doesn't seem to care either way. Cold. There are better zombie themed books out there.
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