I've been concentrating on YA and mysteries recently to help me write a YA historical novel set on a military base in North Carolina and a contemporary YA mystery. Among those books I've particularly enjoyed reading are the following:
Robin Merrow MacCready's Buried; D. James Smith's The Boys of San Joaquin;
John Michael Cummings's The Night I Freed John Brown; Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier; and Tim Tharp's The Spectacular Now.