A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

My non-western lit class was one of the best classes I took in college.  Every single book the professor picked was amazing, and this was one of them.  We were supposed to read it over the course of a week I believe.  I read it in two days.  The dynamics of the relationships of the characters and the culture was just amazing and I could not make myself put it down.  I loved it, and the entire classes did as well.  And it helped when my final paper was about this book, so I made an A for the paper and the course :]