Two books everyone should read that didn't get as much publicity as they should have; About the Author by John Colapinto and The Rich Part of Life by Josephine Humphries.

Another good, light novel; Hot Plastic by Peter Craig, who also wrote The Martini Shot. (His mother is the actress Sally Fields).

Also: anything by Haven Kimmel. She wrote two autobiographical (non-fiction) stories, A Girl Named Zippy, and She Got Up Off the Couch, and two novels, The Solace of Leaving Early and Something Rising Light and Swift.