An Echo in the Bone, by Diana Gabaldon (on CD)

Holy COW, Diana! Is there ANY research that you've done that you have NOT included in the book?? So this covers less than two years (1776-1778) three countries (U.S., Scotland, and France), and 40 CDs!!!

I had to stop a couple of times and 'clear my palate' for a day or two, but I had to get back and finish the story...
...which left me hanging as far as Jemmy's fate, not to mention Claire, who is now a bigamist, and the whole Ian mess.

Cain, by José Saramago

Weird. Good. Needs to be read slowly and carefully.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs

Very interesting book, about WWII orphans on an island off Wales, except they really aren't exactly as the grandson of one learns when he returns to investigate his grandfather's stories after his death. Turns out there is time travel involved, and these children are definitely peculiar in some very interesting ways. Plus, there are period photographs gleaned from collections the author has had access to. Quite an interesting book. I hope Riggs writes more.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu

Blackout, by Connie Willis

Ooooh, frustrating: it's not until the last page that I realized that this is part one of the story. Now I have to wait six months to read the rest of it! Gah.

The Last Synapsid, by Timothy Mason

This is a kids' book that is set in a mountain area VERY similar to Ouray, Colorado: one of my favorite places on Earth. It's a time-travel, historic fiction, "green" fantasy that somehow works. Basically, a fore-runner of all mammals has gotten lost in time and decided he likes our time better than his own. If he doesn't go back to his own, all mammalian life on Earth will never happen. Another 'synapsid' (these dinosaur-like critters) has also started to time-travel in order to make the other one come back and do its job to evolve into humans.

Not a bad story, for the average 10-year-old. ;-)