Lonesome Dove is a good read. I also enjoyed Michener's Chesapeke and Centennial. For other kinds of reading entertainment, Skeeter Skelton's Good Friends Good Guns Good Whiskey makes for excellent light reading.
Clancy's earlier books were great. The Brotherhood of War series by WEB Griffin is outstanding, and especially if you read the books in the proper order. I might just reacquire that series and read them all again, now that I think of it.
