I just finished reading "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown. It kept me reading, but it wasn't that good. I would recommend it though for anyone who liked "The Da Vinci Code" or "Angels & Demons" which were his more famous titles. This book has the same protagonist as those two; Professor Robert Langdon.
I didn't see a section for this in the children's books so... just finished The Witches by Roald Dahl (yeah, not a lot of time for noveling these days, so children's classics it is!)
LIFE BEFORE MAN - Margaret Atwood (realistic) MY LIFE IN THE NORTH WOODS - Robert Smith. Surprisingly well-written narrative of a winter in the Maine Bush, 1930s. He's a terrific writer.
I read Atwood's "Life Before Man" some years ago. It was a good read and some scenes are still vivid to me now. I am currently reading "The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon", a biography of the great British figurative painter. It is redolent of Soho in the 'fifties, and is a raucous account of a milieu that has largely disappeared.