I'm a book freak
and for a 2 week holiday I usually take about 8 or 9 books for reading by the pool!
If you like true stories, I have to recommend a book called "A piece of cake" by Cupcake Brown. It's about her life, she was fostered as a child by her uncle who was very abusive and she ran away and became a junkie, prostitute and gang member who was very active with guns and ended up in hospital pregnant and having been shot. She turned her life around and is now one of America's top lawyers. It's a truly incredible read.
Another that I really like is called "My best friend's girl" which is about a woman who sleeps with her best friend's fiance and falls pregnant. The friends fall out and don't speak for a few years until the friend who cheated contacts her friend to say she is dying and ask her to adopt the daughter which she conceived with the friend's ex fiance. Her best friend is black and it's an amazing story of how they overcame racism, grief etc together.