I would recommend Mockingbird by Walter Tevis. This is what the back cover says:
"In a dying world where humans are drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, where there is no art, no literature, and there are no children, where some would rather burn themselves alive than endure, Spofforth is the most perfect machine ever created. But his only desire is the impossible - to cease to be. Yet there is hope in this bleak, depressing time, hope that a man and a woman discover in love and in books, hope for the future, hope even for Spofforth."
The Wikipedia entry has a spoiler and doesn't do justice to the book so posted this instead.
