Another pick I am sure to get complimented on, in the category of Mass/Pulp Fiction, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It's a romance, so I figure it fits there, but if there are objections...
From Sparks'
website, here's a description of the book...
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A love story, written in both first and third person narrative, in two different time periods, that tells the story of Noah and Allie; how they fell in love in the 1940s, and how they fall in love again in the 1990s, when Allie is suffering from Alzheimer's and no longer remembers him.
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I can be elitist and say I read this well before it was a movie. I can continue my elitist streak and say that I enjoyed the book much more than the film, even though Gosling is pretty hot.
Without ruining anything, the ending is what really got me. It was beautifully written, sappy but not disgustingly so.