I've read a few books over the last 3 months. Here's my ultra-short reviews (in no particular order).

Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, Post Captain
and H.M.S. Surprise: Good, but not outstanding. O'Brian has a tendancy to massively understate keys parts of storyline
and I find that some sub-plots just do not come to a satisfying conclusion.

Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon,
Broken Angels and Market Forces: Great reading, but extremely violent. Morgan write reasonably hard SciFi set
in the far future (in the case of Altered Carbon/Broken Angels) or some kind of near alternate future (Market Forces).
Altered Carbon and Broken Angels are a series, so read them in that order. Market Forces is an unrelated work and probably
a good place to start.

A short anecdote about
Market Forces (from an interview with Morgan:
Market Forces was originally written as a film script, bit rejected because

the central character was too morally ambivalent for Van Damme or Stallone to pick up

If you find Market Forces too violent then don't read the other books. None the less – you won't want to put these
books down.

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and
Deception Point: The Da Vinci Code is an outstanding read, and highly recommended. The others are average
thrillers, and no where near the same standard.

Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: a pretty sad story from the point of view
of and Autistic boy (and math genius) growing up. It's an interesting read, but I'd hesitate to recommend it unconditionally.