So far this year I read The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster about a divorced retired man who moves back to Brooklyn to die, and winds up reconnecting with his favorite nephew (and finding reasons to live).
I followed that up with Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey, which was freaking hilarious and more than a little insane. A hapless family move to Tampa after a typo in a magazine makes their crime rate appear to be DRAMATICALLY less than it really is, while they cross paths with a straight edge, sociopath history buff and his sidekicks: his crackwhore girlfriend and his Every Drug Available friend.
Next was Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow...a supernatural urban action book that was VERY hard to read...a "Hunter" having to stop a "Hellbreed" and a rogue "Were"...I don't mind books that don't have anything NEW to say in their genre, but there were some inconsistencies with the internal logic (or at least things that weren't explained very well), and the protagonist was completely unlikable...an unlikable protagonist is great, if you can pull it off.
I read House of Dark Shadows in about two days...it is the first book in the Dreamhouse Kings series. Though the entire book is basically a prologue for the series, I plan on getting book two to see where it's all going. Basically, in the beginning, this big dude kidnaps a woman living in said house...but takes her away somewhere inside the house...and they are never found. Years later, The Kings move to this house and creepy stuff starts happening all over again...
I just started Bubba and the Dead Woman, which has been pretty funny so far...set in a small Texas town and Bubba Snoddy comes home from pulling an all-nighter at work (after everyone else quits, leaves early or refuses to answer their phone) to find a dead woman in his front yard...and he's the prime suspect, since it's his ex-fiancee.