I've been cranking through both audiobooks and "real" (printed) books lately.
I listened to Duma Key by Stephen King, his most recent novel, this past couple of weeks. This is one of King's books in which the supernatural element emerges fairly late, or at least it's pretty understated until 2/3 of the way through the book. I actually enjoyed the first part of the book the most -- it's basically about a guy trying to get some kind of life back after almost dying in a terrible accident. He loses his wife, relocates to an island, and starts drawing and painting again. This part is really compelling and mature, but it turns in a more "typical Stephen King" direction, with gruesome scary stuff. Still, I'd recommend this book for anyone with any interest at all in Stephen King.
I've been reading Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan for a while now. I actually stalled out on it, early on, set it aside and just didn't want to pick it back up. This novel has what I'd call maybe the most off-putting first 20-30 pages of any book I can remember reading. Yes, I'm OK with books that depend on difficult technical concepts (real or imagined), and I'm also OK with books that don't introduce a main character right away. I do have a sort of hard time with a book that sticks the most difficult quantum physics theory stuff right up front, before giving you any kind of setup to care about, and that seems to have no actual characters at all. It's literally like reading the account of an extremely advanced hypothetical physics experiment being conducted by an alien race (or so far-future as to seem alien), with little care given to the idea of getting a reader comfortable with what's going on. So, I almost gave up, but decided to push on through to page 50-60 at least, since I was sure it would become a "real" novel at some point... and it did. Still, jeez, does Greg Egan not have an editor? WTF? It's OK now, still strange, and a bit hard to relate to, but more enjoyable and interesting now.