You may have seen the Tony-winning musical or the movie adaption with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, but before that, The Bridges of Madison County was a book written by Robert James Waller. This bestselling novel, published in 1992, tells the story of Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and a farm wife waiting for fulfilment of a childhood dream. This heartwarming novel is definitely worth a re-read right now.