Atonement's a pretty good one; I read it (or at least part of it) in my British Novel class last year. But then again, I like pretentious snobby Literature major-type novels like that.

Have you read all of the Sandman books? I'm on The Wake right now. The Sandman is an amazing series of comics, I love it. I've been wanting for a while to write in some sort of encounter with the Endless into the Ariel comics. I know it isn't Marvel but I'll make an exception in this case, since they're not strictly DC either.