As an awkward segue from the "Movies" thread, I thought I'd recommend Kristin Hannah's Winter Garden. It's very hard to get into at first, and at first the mother is an extremely unlikable character, but once I got about a third of the way through I couldn't put it down. It's more of a "chick" book. Kelley and Maggie, if you haven't read it, I urge you to give it a try. It's historical fiction, much like Hannah's The Nightengale.
I just finished Into Thin Air and couldn't put that down, either. I was surprised to see in the Postcript that Jon Krakauer actually spoke with my first journalism professor, Steve Weinberg after the book was published and another account (The Climb) of the disaster had come out.
Now I have to watch Everest again so I can make more sense of the plot.