reading habits

I've yet to go back and list everything I read last year, but I am definitely continuing my trend of non-fiction reading. Aside from a short list of favorite authors (Neal Gaiman, Umberto Eco, William Gibson, and Martin Cruz Smith) there's not much fiction that I find appealing right now. A couple of times I've gone to Borders with the specific intent of getting some new science fiction, and have either walked out with a computer book for work or nothing at all.

I still have the first volume of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant that I bought back in 2004 and have started I think three different times now but always have put down in favor of something else. Part of that is my wandering attention span, and I will admit that part of it is also not being in hurry to get plunged back into a depressing story. I read the first two trilogies in the series when I was in high school. They are good, character driven stories, but horribly depressing. I'm sure that some of my high school experience would have been better without the emotional influence these works left with me. The latest volumes don't appear to be a miserable, and there's plenty of resolution to be had from where the story left off, so I will eventually read it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for some good fiction?