The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Read this while waiting for her last book of the vampire series Breaking Dawn. The story is post apocalyptic science fiction I guess, aliens have invaded and taken over human bodies, but these are not violent aliens, instead they displace the soul of the human host and replace it with a benevolent alien soul. Conflict, war, murder, deceit and lies all come to an end. Everyone works for the greater good and there is no longer any need for money as all contribute to society. Except for the few unconverted humans. This is the story of Wanderer, a soul place in the body of Melanie, one of the last 'wild' humans, and the unexpected conflict between them when Melanie refuses to leave

Really interesting, kind of linked into the stuff Rowlands talked about in The Philosopher and the Wolf, in that it is a meditation on what makes us as humans unique is our ability to lie, deceive and be violent and murderous, and that the right to be this way is something desperately precious to us. We cannot grow by fighting against and accepting our negative thoughts and feelings if we don't have those feelings in the first place.