This is a tough question because there are so many 'flavors' of books that if you find a very active site/group - their passion may not match yours. (Like how "Twilight" was followed by a ton of teenage girls and over-whelmed Quote sites, Yahoo Answers, etc.)
For fun - you can try this Literature Map and enter a favorite author and see some eye-candy about other authors you might like.
http://www.literature-map.com/
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I love Science Fiction from the likes of Asimov, Brin, Niven, Clarke, and Card. I also like books by Grisham, Steinbeck, Crichton, Lehane, Ludlum and Cheever.
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Your best bet is to do just what you did and list favorite authors/books here and get other recommendations.
I'll toss you a few that you may like:
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Lots of well written thrillers. One of their series is the "Agent Pendergast" series (search Amazon for this). Dont be afraid to search for just "Douglas Preston" and "Lincoln Child" as they have some good books written solo like "Deep Storm" by Child.
Michael Connelly - Very good.
Kathy Reichs - Writes a series of "Bones" books and the TV show "Bones" is loosely based on her characters. (Surprisingly - we like both the books and the TV show).
James Rollins - Another good writer of thrillers/adventure books.
Lois McMaster Bujold - Writes an excellent series of books called the "Vorkosigan" series. If you buy her treebook "Cryoburn" it includes a CD of all the novels in epub and text format. You can convert it to .mobi with Caliber.
Note: If you research these authors on Amazon - look at the bottom of the page where "Customers who bought these books also bought.." You can find some good links as well.