NONFICTION:
The Rising Tide by John M. Barry - the great Mississippi flood of 1929 and how it changed America.

The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whittaker - a true tale of love, murder and survival in the Amazon.

FICTION:
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris (and Oprah's Book Club Book)

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (a mind-bending romance)

PHILOSOPHY/ECONOMICS
After the End of History, The Curious Fate of American Materialism by Robert E. Lane (a fictional series of dialogues between two Yale professors; one a humanist philosopher, the other a materialist economist)

I also read The Kite Runner, an outstanding first novel!

Robert