Oh yeah, 2 more...

Neil Gaiman's new book, The Graveyard book, which he describes as The Jungle book, but substitute the jungle with a graveyard. It's won a handful of awards, so I guess it must be good. Although for once I wasn't so excited over Dave McKean's cover. I kind of prefer the alternate cover(by another artist).

Also, this one I just found out about today. Flowers for Algernon. Apparently it's quite controversial and many have tried to ban it, especially in Canadian schools where it is studied by 9th graders. But the story sounds good and potentially heart breaking. A new medical procedure is discovered that can increase a person's IQ. This procedure is tested out on a mouse named Algernon, and after it is proven successful, it is used on a man with a very low IQ. It works, but the rate that the patient's IQ increases is uncontrollable, until the man is unable to connect with the people around him. Later, the mouse's IQ suddenly drops sharply, and it dies. The man's IQ regresses back to it's former level and he shuts himself off from the world.