Replying to Good books to read.

I'm extremely bored at the moment and decided to give Dante's Inferno another try again. I figured I should use most of my free time this summer actually reading for a change. So does anyone have any good books that they reccamend reading? I'm looking for kind of deep intellectual stuff, but I also like dragons, mythology, and the like. So a mix of the three would be excellent.


Gimme what you got. And please include a short sparknote about what the book is about.