About a teenage couple that run away from abuse home, they end up meeting a few people that show them the tips and tricks of squatting/living on the street, eventually they get involved in drugs and Heroin and it follows the story of them spiralling out of controlling, trying many times to quit etc.
My favourite recent book has been one that I put off for years because it's so huge. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
For a shorter, less influential book but with very much the same ideas, you can read The Fountainhead.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, A Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too Much], Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire Bombing of Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe,’ a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From. Peace.
I read that recently, been meaning to read it for years.
Last book I read was The Book Thief, before that was Dorian Grey, currently reading a massive collection of JG Ballard's short stories, most of which are really good.