The Hundred Foot Journey. My goodness that man needs an editor to tell him thst book is twice as long as it should be!

It’s a different war, but you might enjoy The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers.

I had a friend who wrote an absolutely brilliant book. He published with a smaller publishing house. Perfect shitstorm of lousy agent lousy publisher. My imperfect understanding is that because it wasn’t added to the world catalog it would never be purchased by most library systems.

I think being available in libraries would have gotten him more new readers. So, royalties on library books aside, the exposure from library circulation has value.