Local Woman Loses All Credibility by Including Book About Pathetic 30-Something Single Woman in Pile of Break-up Recovery Books

I need some book recommendations, my friends.

Recent developments inspired me to put together a stack of non-relationship-intensive books that I can thrust into the hands of breaker-uppers and the-recently-broken-up-with as said individuals walk out my front door after a therapy session in the Sky Lounge. The stack, ideally, includes books with the power to transport the jilter/jiltee to a completely different place and make him/her forget about another human being whom he/she (1) may still care about; (2) recently ceased to care about but whose absence is nonetheless annoyingly felt; and/or (3) publicly claims to cease to care about while secretly, achingly, devastatingly still does care about.

Obviously, the single most important criterion is that the books MUST NOT DISCUSS RELATIONSHIPS OR LOVE. This is tricky, as discussions of relationships of any kind are pretty hard to avoid. The situation is complicated by the fact that pickings are slim, as my library is quite small (I eschew purchasing books at book stores, and frequently loan (read: give away) the occasional good title I might pick up at a thrift store). Anyway, I apprently blew it with a certain friend who reported that a book I had mindlessly tossed in the pile--Children of God Go Bowling, by Shannon Olson--is basically about a perennially single and sad thirty-something. It seems that I was so wrapped up in the NO RELATIONSHIPS criterion that I had forgotten to make sure that the relationshipless characters in a relationshipless book should not feel pathetic about their relationshipless status. Plus I had some vaguely happy memories of the book, which is written by a local author and was a surprisingly good, albeit light, read with a pretty cover to boot.

In light of my failings, I am asking for your help. I need a list of books that are really, really good, with the power to transport the reader from reality and are hard to put down. Am also not averse to fluffy books if they match the transport/put down criteria. Here are examples of a few books that I currently have on the pile:

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt)
The World According to Garp (Irving)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden)

Help?