My new favorite author

Since I didn't read much while in law school, I've been trying to catch up now that I have some extra time on my hands and before bar study starts in a few weeks. I've read two books by Jonathan Safran Foer and cannot rave about them enough -- "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." It does no good to try and explain the plots because they aren't those kinds of books. They are the kinds of books that make you pause after every chapter because you think you might be, however slightly, a different person for having read it and you need time to find the contours of your new self before moving on.