Blindness ~ Jose Saramego
I finished this last month ant it is a fantastic book. Saramego writes differently than anything you will ever have read before and it works well. He got the Nobel Prize for Literature recently, but it is not a heavy or hard read, it flows nicely.
The Sound and the Fury ~ William Faulkner
This is a pretty heavy read compared to Blindness but it is excellent and Faulkner is great at providing the reader with some fantastic imagery. I just started it but it is very good so far, however I do find that I am reading at a slower pace due to some of the dense language that Faulkner uses. It is not a light, summer novel, that is for sure.