The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons. Entertaining and downright hilarious book about the National Basketball Association. Worth reading for the footnotes alone.
Great North Road by Peter Hamilton. Doorstopper with excellent plot that I couldn't put down. Twenty years ago, Bartram (one of the patriarchs of a very rich and influential family of clones) was brutally murdered, along with the rest of his household, in his billionaire's stronghold. One woman, Angela Tremalo, lived, and was convicted of the murders. She denies it and says that an alien did the deeds. She is now in prison - and yet another murder of another member of the clone family (the Norths, giving a double meaning to the title) with the same modus operandi, happens and makes people think - maybe she was right. Police Detective Sid Hurst gets the unenviable and highly politicized job of finding out what really happened. There's a lot more to the book than this; recommended as a very good read. Hamilton doesn't disappoint.
The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde. Fforde's patented absurdity in the next volume of the adventures of Literary Detective Thursday Next. Too much fun to summarize. Best if read from the beginning of the series, which starts with The Eyre Affair . Don't miss this series if you love books.
