Water For Elephants is a good, quick read about Jacob Jankowski, who, at 90 (or 93) reflects back on the time he jumped a train and inadvertently joined a travelling circus.
For the life of me I can't figure out why I wanted to read this so badly when it first came out. I found this book to be all over the place. It's an overly descriptive, painfully slow book about ZzzZzz. Talking about it bores me.
A semi-autobiographical book about a sixteen year old schizophrenic girl who lives in her dark imaginary world. Her parents take her to a mental hospital where she stays for three years.