Here are links to my suggestions for books to read on various topics.
Adultery
The Beach
Boyhood
Community
Criminals
Dubious Relationships
Femmes Fatales
First-Person Narrators
Good Books into Terrible Movies
Happy Families
Hooking Up in the Depression
Kids
Loners
LGBT Portrayals
Middle-Class Realism in the 1950s
Monterey County
Movie Stars
Not So Happy Families
Panoramas
Politics
Short Stories about Place
Slackers
Working Women