Book 82: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

I really liked this one.  Everyone in the town of Midwich falls into a deep sleep.  Anyone who enters the town borders also immediately passes out.  After a day or so, they wake up and all the women are pregnant.  After the initial shock they realize something odd is happening, and decide to go through everything as a community.  The children are all born, but they are strange.  The mothers feel little or no love for the kids who all seem to share their thoughts.  The book continues on revealing how the British government deals with the situation and how the children grow.

This is a pretty well known book.  It spawned a couple movie versions called Village of the Damned.  An easy read, it was published in 1957, so comes across as a pretty straightforward story.