a smidget of recent reading:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie
Nights at the Circus [note: long, with lots of spoilers], by Angela Carter
Fury, by Salman Rushdie
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, by Angela Carter
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley