High Fidelity

One sentence synopsis... Lovable loser Rob Fleming (Gordon in the movie and Brooks in the TV show) recounts his desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable heartbreaks - and predictably learns life lessons along the way. .

Read it if you like... Hornby has a knack for making not-so-standup guys likable (see his other novel's main characters in ‘About a Boy', ‘A Log Way Down', ‘Fever Pitch', ‘Slam', need I go on...) so if you're looking for a clever, charming, but irresponsible man child these books are for you. Always funny but also the same formula again and again. .

Dream casting... honestly the movie (staring John Cusack) and the new Hulu shoe (staring Zoe Kravitz) nailed it. This is the rare case of the film/show being better than the book. Mostly because they scrap the last few chapters which slog down the rest of the novel.