hmm..i haven't read much outside of BMW training manuals in the past year
only 2 books i rememeber reading are both fiction.
my ex let me borrow her copy of 'Shanghai Baby' by Wei Hui, which was banned in China for its liberal standpoint of the main charcater's (female) sexual exploration throughout the book. Though alot probably got lost in translation it is quite an entertaining read.
Other one i read was 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' by Ernest Hemingway (yes, it was a book before a song, what do you think inspired Hetfield?
). If you didn't read it in high school, go get it. Few authors have ever mastered the art of character development and setting the way Hemingway did. Granted there are parts that seem to drag on, but you can clearly visualize everything that is being said.