The Humans
By Matt Haig
Simon & Schuster
Professor Andrew Martin’s been murdered. Unfortunately, nobody knows that Andrew’s been murdered because the alien who murdered him has taken on Andrew’s identity. His physical identity, at least. The dossier provided to the alien by its leaders, who have sent the alien to wipe out humanity, is unfortunately not comprehensive enough to help the alien understand how actual humans behave. Even worse, this new Andrew is actually a lot more likeable than the old Andrew. So as the alien Andrew learns more about humanity, the more ambivalent he becomes about killing the people he’s growing to love. A nice reminder that maybe most of us aren’t as bad as we think we are.