Currently easing my self into summer reading with Violets are Blue by James Patterson.
Thrillers are my guilty pleasure, and there's something about Patterson that makes me want to keep reading on. I know the books aren't well written, and yet the short, punchy chapters and dialogue really pull me along for the ride. I also relate really well to Alex Cross, which surprises me as he is a lot of things I am not (black, tall, tough, moralistic, religious). The way he writes psychopaths always astonishes me as well.
Outside of the summer I only really read for my book club, which very rarely chooses thrillers, so it's nice to have a change of pace from literary fiction. That said, I am eyeing Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (got in a recent Kindle daily deal) and The Secret History by Donna Tartt (my choice for book club after the superb Goldfinch) hungrily.