I read Interview in my 20s (~15 yrs ago) so might not think so highly of it if I read it now, I suppose. At the time, I found the vampire's take on immortality quite interesting.
And if I had been 20 when I read "The Book Thief", I may have liked it. If it wasn't the 100th book I read on the subject of WWII and the holocaust, I may have liked it, too.
Death's moronic ramblings just killed the book for me. Here's a list and there's a list. Sky was the color of this and that. I like the color yellow. Wtf? Grow up and say something interesting, dammit. I would have thrown The Book Thief out the window if I didn't have to read it for book club. Those ladies all like "vanilla" books so I don't expect them to hate all the books I hate, but everybody was with me on this one.
I just finished Dan Simmons' "Drood" which is about the last year of Charles Dickens' life, written from the pen of his friend and BIL Wilkie Collins. It is a brick of a book and a bit hard to get into, but goes into London's catacombs, opium dens, "underworld" of people living there, Dickens' fascination with "mesmerism" and a mysterious character called "Drood" who was apparently the namesake for his last and unfinished book.