The dark is rising by Susan Cooper, awesome and you can't stop reading it until you've reached the last word of the last sentence on the last page.
i also love the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey, if you're a fan of dragons, go for it.
i also suggest Marion Zimmer Bradley, she's my favorite author. i'm a fan of Darkover, but if you don't like much scifi, read instead The Mists of Avalon, it's the best story about Arthur and the knights of the round table, the lady of the lake etc i've found.
i also like Oliver Twist, i read it when i was a kid and had a terrible nightmare that kept me up all night. sometimes it's good to read some classics.
one last i particularly like : Red blood rivers (les rivières pourpres in french) by Jean-Christophe Grangé. this one is a thriller, totally breathcatching. i missed my station reading it in the underground
there is also a movie with Jean Reno, but the book is much better than the movie.