If you decide to read The Rosie Project, prepare yourself for a laugh. If I'm wrong, which happens (insert your groans here), then go to page 1 and re-read because you missed something. 
 Within it are some of the funniest moments I've read in a long time. If the book were only humorous, it would be enough, but it also becomes a love story. Therefore, the story plays on two emotions, and by doing that it excels. Call me a sucker for the unconventional love story. 
 Don Tillman is a brilliant genetics professor but socially inept. To find a wife, he will do it in the best way he knows how - by creating a questionnaire. In the process of his "Wife Project" he is set up with Rosie, who no way passes as a potential wife candidate, but quickly puts Don on a track leading in an alternate direction. The subject is original. This is the kind of book to remind us that people are more alike than different, and that opposites do fit. 
 Although we learn that Don has autism, an early hint in the book leans towards Asperger's Syndrome, his exact prognosis is not specifically revealed. This is probably intentional by the author, and I'd say for the best. The reader is left to figure it out, and by the time we do, our affection for Don exceeds any need to know. The book does a great job in highlighting Asperger's in a positive way.