What's the best book you've read recently?

My nominations:

* Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor (about Bram Stoker, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the artist's life and the secret world of homosexuality in turn-of-the-(last)century England.

* Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - re-reading it; a superb book full of heart based on a hostage-taking by the Túpac Amaru in the 1990s.