Novel recommendations

Computer update, for those who care: it's still somewhere in the bowels of FedEx, and supposedly will be delivered to a facility near me tomorrow. Maybe. I think the computer gods are trying to tell me something, really.

Anyway, I am once again asking my flist for suggestions, this time for sci-fi and fantasy novel recommendations, since I have to put something on my amazon wishlist under $50 for a family gift exchange, and I don't honestly have any good ideas, since when I see a novel I want to read I either buy it or get it at the library. So--read anything good lately?

(I already have the latest two Connie Willis books, and I'm not getting the new Robin McKinley, since I've heard it ends on a cliffhanger and she never does write sequels of things. That pretty much exhausts my knowledge of "recent things I'd want to read in scifi/fantasy.")

Insta rec

I was just going to read the first part of this on my dinner break at work, and here I am three hours later, still at work because I couldn't stop reading: starandrea's I Got Soul But I'm Not a Soldier. It's a Dean/Castiel AU where John is a pastor (and Dean is a youth pastor), and Castiel is a rogue angel who travels from town to town helping people. There aren't any other supernatural beings besides angels in this 'verse, but Castiel has to live a life on the road because helping humans is frowned upon by the hosts of heaven. He's never been tempted to stay anywhere before he met Dean. This is long, slow-building, and very enjoyable romance, especially if you have a wingkink (seriously some of the best wingkink stuff I've ever read). I wouldn't have thought I would buy Dean as a ministerial type, but it really worked for me in this story, and I also loved Sam in this (he's in a threesome with Jess and Sarah, which does NOT make his minister father very happy).