When the Moon Hits Your Eye

 When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, 326 pages.

One day, with no obvious cause, the entire moon spontaneously turns to cheese. The rest of Scalzi's book is a shockingly serious treatment of a very silly premise. He peeks in on a wide variety of characters, rarely stopping on the same one twice, as all of society tries to figure out how to exist in a world where the moon can suddenly turn to cheese. 

I was really impressed how real and human the characters felt in a book that I really only expected to be a long (very funny) joke. Especially towards the end of the book, when the consequences of the cheese moon are looking dire, I found myself remarkably moved more than once. I think this reads more like a short story collection than a novel, but I really enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend this as a shockingly meaningful book with a ridiculous premise.