I just finished [i]The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay[/i] by Michael Chabon and I highly recommend it. It took me a while to finally begin it, and a while to actually finish it too, but it is so worth it.
I didn't think a book about comics, Nazis, golems and Houdini could be so deeply moving! It also won a Pulitzer, for those of you that are in to accolades.