Y: The Last Man—One Small Step

Written by: Brian K. Vaugn

First line: Yeah, you're a regular man of steel all right.

Why you should read this book: Yorick and his band of merry misfits find their journey interrupted by a Russian woman looking for help in saving the space station astronauts, who are running out of air and making a last-ditch attempt to get home on a compromised craft. Their mission is complicated by the tenacious Israeli soldiers, whose allegiances are unclear, and the whole things turns into, as the Israelis might say, a balagan. Then, the monkey Ampersand has an unusual excursion with a troop of actors.

Why you shouldn't read this book: You seriously think the world would be better without Y chromosomes.