[>BKA< T Wrecks]

You don't want me to start with books 'cause I'll be very likely to mention a truckload of South American novels and short story collections of which I don't know if they've been translated at all and if so, if the translation is ok.

Dunno if you've read those already:

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize, and a great read)

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (I'm sure you know the story; this book is BRILLIANT)

Oh, and if you like novels with a WWII background, I can recommend
William Wharton - A Midnight Clear. The story takes place in the last years of WWII, when a small allied scout troop is sent into a forest in deepest winter to find out if a large mansion somewhere inside is still held by German troops or already deserted... this is not a typical war story (meaning that there's next to no fighting) , but pure suspense! I couldn't pull away from that book until I had read it to the last page.

All these books I mentioned here are books of the kind I like: They are real pageturners, but there's something much deeper to them than to any John Grisham "good lawyer vs. bad lawyer" mumbo-jumbo... they are the kind of books you just can't put back into their shelves after you read them, because for the next 20-30 minutes you'll be busy with your thoughts...