I like a lot of Stephen King, Michael Crichton (RIP), Dean Koontz, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, and some John Grisham.
October Sky (Rocket Boys) by Homer Hickam is a good book, as well as The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Greggory Maguire books are also...