books please?

next week is our last week of class before summer break. My prof doesn't believe in finals and actually gave (what i think is an)incredibly small reading assignment. So i'm feeling like i'm free and can do whatever i want. not that i don't usually, but i always have that homework cloud hanging over me when i do. so i've started reading again. last week (a bit premature, i know. but i was getting antsy) I read Eragon. and now i've got the next in the series, Eldest. I really liked the first, so I'm looking forward to this one too. If you've never heard of them, they fall into the dragon/fantasy genre. The author was 15 when he started the first book and he became a best selling author at 19. knowing this going in, I read with a generous attitude (as normally I'm just a touch critical....who me?). but it wasn't necessary. they're really good books. the most impressive part to me was the plot line - somehow i just didn't expect a teenager to develop such an extensive plot line. The books are about the size/length as the later Harry Potter's and they read about the same (if it takes you a day to read harry, you'll finish this in about the same time) anyway. I'm looking for recommendations on what to read next. I have an incredibly hard time when i go to the library trying to find something i want to read. it seems that about 90% of the books i pick up just seem lame or cliche or whatever when i read their little synopsis. maybe the synopses can't do justice to the real story - but that is what they are there for, right? I'm considering joining/starting some sort of book club so i can get some recommendations and have the excuse of a deadline to finish reading some books. I'm thinking of starting something since i can't seem to find anything in my immediate town. i was thinking about doing something online, but that's intimidating for some reason. I tend to be rather quite for the first several months in a new group. in person, everyone gets used to you and thinks you are quiet or shy or whatever and then when you actually say something they're all so excited you're 'joining' the group. that's not the reason i do it, but it is kinda a fun result. when you do that online, however, you're just an invisible lurker that suddenly appears. not as much fun. another thing that sounded fun was a sort of book circle, where there's some sort of group of people that pass books around. so you buy it, read it and then send it to the next person and someone else sends you their book. i kinda like that idea too, but i'd like to add some sort of space for the previous person to record what they thought about the book. nothing scholarly, just a little comments. in the mean time, anybody have any recommendations? please, please? next on my list so far are Kite Runner and A Series of Unfortunate Events (recommended by Chris a good year ago I think) anybody?