I've read a few good ones lately, both fiction and non-fiction.
Fiction: Welcome to Harmony by Jodi Thomas. If you're a Debbie Macomber fan, you'd like Jodi Thomas. Same sort of thing, relationships among the people in a small town. Mellow, absorbing, satisfying.
Non-fiction: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a true story by William Kamkwamba (the boy, now a man) and Brian Mealer (a professional writer). It's the story of this boy, poor and uneducated, and living in the African country of Malawi who can't afford to go to secondary school but uses library books to learn to build a windmill. He of course doesn't have the materials for this, so he makes them out of trash, such as melting plastic bags and fusing them together... he uses the windmill to light his house at night (with old car batteries, all he can get), recharge other people's cell phones and eventually to provide water so his mother and sisters don't have to trek a distance to get it.
What I'm reading right now: The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. He's a professional writer, and he did this as a project for this book. He's a New Yorker, Jewish by birth, though agnostic and non-observant. He decides to spend one year living according to the Bible itself - not according to religious leaders or traditions, but trying to follow the Bible directly. He spends a lot of time reading it, interpreting it, reading books about it and visiting various groups who practice in different ways. He spends the first part of the year following the Old Testament, the Jewish Bible. The last part of the year he devotes to examining and living by the New Testament, the Christian Bible. Anyway, it's very interesting to read what he learns, what he thinks about it, and his humor - he's very funny.