The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

Fred was boring in life, boring in death and, after he woke up as a vampire, boring as one of the undead. Drew Hayes makes his hero timid, socially awkward and troubled by low self-esteem, a man who has never sought adventure. At his high school reunion Fred reconnects with an old friend, and the renewed friendship sets off a chain of events that throws him into the parahuman world. That world holds cheerful zombies, wereponies who drive trucks, maniacal necromancers and ancient dragons, and now one undead accountant doing his best to survive. Even after it ends, the book suggests, life can stay a bloody mess.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Fabrice Grinda included it on a list of books he recommends that he said were unrelated to his career.