I've just recently read And The Mountains Echoed, The Kite Runner, and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I had never read anything by him and found this to be a wonderful and different type of writing, location, and character than anything I have ever read. I wish he had more books.
Also I have read The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and really enjoyed his style of writing and magical realism.
I too am now looking for something to read comparable to these writers - although they are vastly different.