I enjoyed "The curious case of the dog in the night-time" a LOT, and also "The Kite-Runner." Highly recommend them both. One of the great joys of my last year is that I've gotten back into reading a steady stream of good fiction, and I'm very impressed with the quality of fiction that's being written & read currently. (I got my late-life BA just over 10 years ago, and did some graduate work, and reading gradually kind of became "work" -- and sometimes about as dry as eating sand. Then I started selling a few books on-line, and re-discovered reading for FUN, FUN, FUN!)