Pratchett's Discworld's cycle of course, looking forward to his next book.
A non-fantasy book that fascinated me for hours was
"Alice Sebold: Beautiful bones"
The story of an 11-year-old girl, raped and murdered. In her heaven (That's the German title) she watched her family cope with this, observed her murderer, had troubles with her guardian. All written in the naive language of a child - not pathetic or sentimental, just beautiful.
Kiya
Carrie, did you ever read Henry VIII by Margaret George?