Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Published in 1997 (I finished it on January 01, 2001)
Sure there's a good movie, but READ THE BOOK! This is one of those stories that will give you a small (or large) shovel to change your life around a bit. You'll end up seeing what the important things are, and maybe what they aren't. Yeah, this one is a deep moving story.

So many books … (you know the rest)