Some recent reads I cannot recommend highly enough:

Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Driftless by David Rhodes
Gilead and its sequel Home by Marilynne Robinson
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

And while not recently read, some of my all-time favorites include:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Until I Find You by John Irving
Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Ferrol Sams's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels: Run with the Horsemen, The Whisper of the River and When All the World Was Young.