I'm searching for a that has all of this:
- a good, exciting, thrilling story
- interesting philosophy discussions told through story, language or dialogues by the characters
- nice atmosphere through it's symbols, methaphors and low-level story details
- interesting characters
- nice language
- not too unlikely or unrealistic storyline, but may contain myths, dreams and other small isolated fantasy elements
- it should be different from the mainstream stuff
- preferably but not necessarily historical

I know it sounds like pretty tough requirements but I don't read very often so when I do I really want something of high quality, and I've actually on earlier occasions found and read a few books that fulfilled all of these requirements, so it might not be unlikely that there are many more such books that I haven't ready yet. What books can my fellow .orgahs recommend?