Book Recommendations: Help A BlogHer

Everyone needs a little help from time to time. This is a thread where we can discuss what we want or need and our fellow BlogHers can chime in with their recommendations.

Maybe we have a pile of books from the library and we just can't decide which to read. Maybe we're in a slump and need something that will knock our socks off. Or maybe it's been a little while since we picked up a book and just don't know where to start. Or maybe there's a book that we just all need to read and someone is just bursting to tell us about it.

Help us out by giving us a little bit of info about what you are looking for.

Fiction/non-fiction/who cares?
YA/Romance/Sci-Fi/Chick-lit/Fantasty/Food-lit or any combination there of?
Are you looking for a certain flavour of book, perhaps one that will make you feel the same way another book did?

Everyone have their thinking caps on? Ready, set, recommend!