I recently read a couple of really, really good ones, but the authors names are on my Nook, which is not with me:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - about two young kids in SF - one Chinese and one Japanese, and the problems they had being friends at the beginning of WW2 and how they reconnected later in their lives.
The Angel of Death Row - non-fiction, but reads like fiction. True story of the first female public defender in Chicago
Same Kind of Different as Me - truly the best book I've read since "The Help". About a poor black man and a wealthy white couple in the south, and how they connected. Awesome read.
Cane River - even BETTER than the help. Follows a black family through the slavery days. It is truly one of the best books I've ever read in my life.