Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire....salvaged from the bargain bin again at booksale sm city lucena just yesterday....so engrossing, I'm now on chapter 39....
David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". A little caveat: "Infinite Jest" is over a thousand pages long, so much so that a colleague quipped that it's almost as thick as the average Webster's dictionary one could find in a well-to-do home back in those days when the Internet was a luxury only few could afford. There is also a section solely dedicated to footnotes, so more than one bookmark is required to read it.