I suggest reading The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald).

As a great fan of Fitzgerald it can easily be said that so much of his work is overlooked...resting his name primarily on The Great Gatsby. While I love the novel,I also love the lives and the stories of the lives lived by the Fitzgeralds. While The Beautiful and Damned is not an autobiography (despite a rumor of a movie of the same name coming out in 2010 that is a biography of the Fitzgeralds) it does comment on the society in which they lived...and comments of the aspects of that society that eventually ruined them.

Summary from provided link (Barnes and Noble):

The novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, a Harvard- educated, aspiring writer, and his beautiful young wife, Gloria. While they wait for Anthony’s grandfather to die and pass his millions on to them, the young couple enjoys an endless string of parties, traveling, and extravagance. Beginning with the pop and fizz of life itself, The Beautiful and the Damned quickly evolves into a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic society in which beauty is all too fleeting.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beauti ... 451/?itm=2

Hello and welcome abbylee:

I love F. Scott Fitzgerald, I haven't read The Beautiful and the Damned. It sounds good. This needs to be moved into the
Announcement: Fiction Book Suggestions Wanted: Aug. & Sept. 2009 forum. I am afraid that if it is not moved, when the list is summarized, your suggestion will become lost. You can find the link on the main page, look for the chimp.