Novels I have read and liked :-)

Survivor or Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin
Miss Wyoming or JPod by Douglas Coupland
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen fielding
Syrup by Max Barry
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster
Shooting from the Lip by Katie Puckrik
Drowning the Hullabaloo Blues by Michael O'Dwyer

I would recommend any of these to you. Each one was a pleasurable, if brief journey into a different world.