I also like CSM101's idea. Let's all list what we've recently read and are currently reading - it might give us some ideas.

Am currently reading:

All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Have recently read:

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo by Christiane F

Iron Kingdom

On the bookshelf to read:

The Third Reich in Power

Ein eisiger Tod by Ian Rankin

Deadline by Simon Kernick

Gibraltar

Inferno: the devestation of Hamburg

Die Fluchttunnel von Berlin