A GREAT read is the OUTLANDER series by Diana Gabaldon. I am rereading it now, and as absorbed as I was the first time.
From Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...939971-4324709
The novel begins in the year 1945, and the plot revolves around the adventures of Claire Randall, an Englishwoman and combat nurse during World War II, who is reunited with her husband, Frank, after the war. While on a second honeymoon in Scotland, she visits a strange flat topped hill in the highlands of Scotland, where a forbidding stone circle draws her. Touching one of the stones, she is hurled through a vortex in time and finds herself in eighteenth century Scotland.
There, she meets James Fraser, a brave and brawny Scotsman, and finds herself thrust into the midst of clan warfare and intrigue. Finding in Jamie a soulmate, she falls passionately in love, but is conflicted because of the feelings she harbors for the husband she left behind. She goes on, however, to have enough adventures to last a lifetime. What happens to these star crossed lovers in eighteenth century Scotland is riveting.
I swear the problems I have dating are because I'm half in love with Jamie Fraser! ha ha
Anyway, there are 4 books in the series, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager and Drums of Autumn. The fifth is due out in October--so if you start now, you'll be done in time as each book is 800 plus pages.