Gone with the Wind

This really turned out to be the epic novel I expected it to be. Fantastic summer read. Full of complex and fallible and endearing heroes, led by the most selfish and most insensitive and most ignorant heroine of them all - Scarlett O'Hara. Yet despite all her bad traits, you still love her. And of course Scarlett and Rhett's dynamic is highly entertaining to read, and their dance - which is set up for failure all along - leads to one of the most satisfying unhappy endings.