Interesting you like McEwan and Enright. If that's a style you enjoy then I heartily recommend Sadie Jones' The Outcast.
Wow, books my fourth love, there are so many where do I start. R.F. Delderfield; God is an Englishman and Give us this Day. Kate Mosse; Labyrinth Hemingway; everything but if you want to look into the dark side you really need to read "Hunting with Hemingway" by his younger Brother's daughter Hilary Hemingway Lone Survivor was very good but BlackHawk Down was as good if not better. Karin Slaughter is a very good new comer if you like murder and mayhem plus the girl is from Atlanta so I've got to give her a plug. "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson is true and unreal. About the two men who discovered the WWII sub off the coast of the US in 200+ feet of water. I was into scuba as a young man so it was a special read for me. If you are into classics then you must read "To Kill a Mocking Bird". King and Koontz are two pretty good writers. Some of their stuff is better than others. I do like the Dark Tower series and Koontz later stuff is better. So many that all of you have pointed to are good to many to name. If you like SiFi David Weber's Honor Harrington's series is very good.
I will def give it a try man... I like reading a lot and have been having a bad series of books unfortunately. I do thoroughly enjoy Ian McEwan... unfortunately I read somewhere that he faced accusations that Atonement was plagiarised, which was really sad to me because I really really really loved that book.
I have heard a unanimous "don't even try" I think I am gonna go on a different direction for a bit. Maybe come back to it at some point. But not anytime soon.
Do consider "The kindly ones" by Jonathan Littell. Won the Goncourt two years ago, and should be translated in English by now. One of the best novel I've ever read with the Open Veins of Latin America by Galeano (in spite of its blatant left wing perspective, the research done is really impressive). It tells the story of a former SS officer who helped carry out massacres during World War Two. In the case you might be nauseated by WWII as many are, I understand. He does swing from his childhood in France, to his life as a member of the Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine, to Stalingrad, to convalescence in Berlin so the reader learns plenty about the Eastern front, social life in Berlin in 1940, and 1945. Really a stunning opus.
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward is another in a similar vein. If you want to be really bold, try some Patrick Hamilton; 20,000 Streets Under The Sky is a classic as is Hangover Square. London just pre and during WW2, with a very black comedic twist. Just beautifully written. They're 20th Century classics.
