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I just finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde thanks to a recommendation from this thread. I enjoyed the book, a fun read if you are looking for something light and a little different. It reminds me of Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy which I read as an audio book several years ago and also enjoyed.

Synopsis of The Eyre Affair (not a spoiler):

Spoiler:

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.