I keep an ongoing list of books that I want to read, mainly culled from reviews in various newspapers or my favorite book nerd website. Although the length of this list is as strong as ever the quality of the books on it seems to be falling off of late. Very rarely am I attracted by a review and then find the book unreadable, but there's been a lot more meh. I don't like meh.

Therefore, I need your help. Please tell me something you've read recently (or maybe not so recently) that really knocked your socks off. Fiction, nonfiction, scifi, classics, trashy bodice-rippers, whatever, as long as you turned the last page and thought, "Damn, that was a great book."