The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

 

The Lotus Eaters is an award-winning novel that tells the story of an American woman who goes to war-torn Vietnam as a combat photojournalist and finds herself in a love triangle with two men.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he was killed in the September 11 attacks.