Atonement.

Okay, the movie was pretty good, but the novel was just gorgeous and incredible.

This is the kind of book that people want to grow up to write.

This is the kind of book that makes you say, wow, I am so inspired to write something so pitch-perfect about Life, and Love, and War, and Peace, and Et Cetera.

This is also the kind of book that makes you say, Oh shit, that book was so perfect that no other book will be so perfect again, so I might as well give up and go drink some more wine instead of ever trying to write a book so good.