I'm currently grinding my way through a bunch of romance novels to get a feel for the pacing and rhythm of the things before i start writing one myself...
The Chickamauga Campaign, Volume I, A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22nd - September 19, 1863, by David Powell.
Just finished "Oryx and Crake," Margaret Atwood's first book of her "MaddAddam" trilogy of dystopian speculative fiction. Next up, "The Whites" by Richard Price writing as Harold Brandt.