Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
If I had known what this book was really about, I just might have read it some time ago. The cover and beginning of this book suggests that this is the story of students at an elite Catcher in the Rye-esque boarding school, but as it is revealed that this is the story of a community of clones that are raised so that they can contribute their organs for the medical betterment of the society from which they have been isolated.
The author never abandons the style of the writing that sets up the story as an English society novel. The emotions and subtle social nuances of the characters (such things that I might never notice in a typical conversation/interaction) are far more important than the greater frame of the story. However it was Ishiguro's audacious portrayal of clones falling into (or perhaps creating?) a society that somehow showed their human-ness instead of their lack of human-ness --which also existed -- which made this much more of a society novel than sci-fi. I held on until the end, but ultimately thought that despite great potential, this book didn't take me everywhere that it certainly could have, even emotionally.