Book Match

If you liked Saturday, here are several titles you may also enjoy:

Atonement, also by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini
The Swallows of Kabul, by Khadra Yasmina
The Amber Photograph, by Penelope Stokes
The Hotel Alleluia, by Lucinda Roy
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve (actually, all of Anita Shreve's books are intense, contemporary and very readable).

Martha Hutzel
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If you liked "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer, you might enjoy these titles:

"The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint" by Brady Udall The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain, and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences.

If you liked Katherine Neville's The Eight, you may also be interested in her 2008 novel, The Fire, and these titles:

The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb
Agent Sarah Trent and Professor Xander Jaspers search the globe for a missing 16th century manuscript that outlines a plan for world domination.

If you liked  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , I'm betting the outrageous humor is the draw.
If so, you may want to try one of the books listed below:

The Philosophical Strangler, by Eric Flint 

If you liked "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb, you may enjoy these titles:

Jemima J by Jane Green. Jemima is close to 100 pounds overweight -
treated shabbily by her roomates, passed over for promotions at work and
invisible to the man she loves. She decides to lose weight and change
her life. But will it be an improvement?

If you like books like John Grisham's that feature law, politics, international relations, and intrigue, you might like these titles.

Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp takes on both Baghdad and Washington, D.C. to avert World War III.

Here are suggestions for books that pick up on the sword and sorcery, quest, and dragon aspects of "Eragon": 

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

"An epic fantasy of gnomes, trolls, dwarfs and elves in which a simple man, Shea Ohmsford, is pitted against the greatest power of evil the world has ever known."-catalog summary

The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

If you liked "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, you might enjoy these other titles for their mix of science fiction, satire and social commentary:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

"A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue.
Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined."-catalog summary

Catch 22 by Heller

Romance and lust and family dynamics feature prominently in "Rococo" by Adriana Trigiani. Some other titles that you might like:

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy... (B)ehind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina...an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them. (from Barnes & Noble)

"An Unpardonable Crime" by Andrew Taylor best fits into the category of literary mysteries in a historical setting. This is a genre that I personally enjoy reading, especially if a real person from history is featured in the story. Here are some other good titles in this genre.