A subjective list, not in any particular order.
1.Tim Lebbon - The Island - Fantasy, conspiracy and a dark secret from the past. Yum.
2. Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo - Yep, I've never read it before and I was pleasantly surprised by this witty study of cold blooded revenge.
3. Harlan Ellison - Deathbird Stories - This man published over 1700 short stories, so he knows how to write them good.
4. Scott Lynch - The Republic of Thieves - Book 3 of Gentleman Bastard series so I won't spoiler the fun, let's just say there's even more politics, intrigue and skilled thievery in it.
5. Kim Stanley Robinson - 2312 - A classic space opera from one of sf heavy weights.
6. Beth Vaughan - Destiny's Star - I admit that's this book does not boast a very original plot but it's a well written heroic fantasy. Also, there's a cat in it that's basically Ginny...
7. Ken Grimwood - Replay - Imagine you wake up twenty years earlier... but with all your memories intact. And it happens again. And again. And again....
8. Kate Danley - The Woodcutter - An intriguing play on fairy tales' motifs.
9. Justina Robson - Natural History - The world of the future where humans as we know us live side by side with the Augmented. All is kind of well until a new planet is found, that can be colonised - by just one of the human species...
10. Kurt Vonnegut -Welcome to the Monkey House - Another master of short stories that aged well.
11. Chris Adrian - The Great Night - Three people get lost in the night in the park that's a fairy realm and it's a very bad night to get lost there.
12. Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love - Yeah, yeah, imagine my surprise... I did like the book, it's essentially a well written, thought inducing, travel diary. The movie is crap.
13. Paweł Jaszczuk - Marionetki/Plan Sary - Well I do read Polish books as well. Look out for the translation as these criminal novels set in pre-war Lwów are a gem.
14. Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things - A stubborn 19th century woman does all it takes to lead her life the way she wants to and study mosses. More interesting than it sounds.
15. Ian McDonald - Ares Express - Sf which takes place mostly on gigantic interplanetary trains.
16. Hillary Jordan - When She Woke - ...she was red from head to toes, as in this brave new world criminals get dyed, different crimes, different colours and have to live, or die, with it.
17. Spider and Jeanne Robinson - The Stardance Trilogy - Who would have thought that dancing in space is such a hassle and also a way to communicate with aliens.
18. Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death - Phillip K. Dick. Need I say more?
19. A Roger Ekirch - At Day's Close. A History of Night-time - I didn't realise how terrifying and dark and full of thieves and death nights used to be even a mere hundred years ago...
