Alloy of Law
I got the new Brandon Sanderson book, "The Alloy of Law," and I definitely have to recommend it to all of you. It's in the same world as his Mistborn trilogy, but you don't have to read those first to enjoy this one. Obviously, he hints at things that happened in those books, but this book is set 300 years in the future from then, and the world has changed and evolved. It's very much a western/steampunk fantasy novel. The characters are fun and it is really cool to see Allomancy with revolvers and trains. It's a quick read--short for a Sanderson novel at about 350 pages. (I'm glad--now I have something I can recommend to people that won't intimidate them!)