A book recommendation for people who love life

I'm borrowing this statement and modifying a bit but: I can neatly define my reading epochs this way. There are books I read before The Places In Between and books I will read after The Places In Between. It cleaves my reading life into two new fresh epochs.

This story is phenomenal. Perhaps a recommendation for the book that gets selected -for Freshman I think it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Places_in_Between

Yet, I think we all enjoy books for our own reasons.