Non-fiction
No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media, by Peter Steven (2022)

Non-genre
Dead Souls, by Ian Rankin (2010)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (2011)
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (2021)

Speculative fiction
The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (2004)
The Book of the New Sun (four books), by Gene Wolfe (2005)
The Hidden War, by Michael Armstrong (2016)
The Area X trilogy (three books), by Jeff VanderMeer (2017)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, by James Finn Garner (2018)
Mickey⁷ by Edward Ashton (2023)
Linghun, by Ai Jiang (2024)

Comics
De Apenkermis, by Willy Vandersteen (2014)
Amoris van Amoras, by “Willy Vandersteen” [Paul Geerts] (2014)
Het Aruba-dossier, by “Willy Vandersteen” [Paul Geerts] (2014)

A slight change of format today.

The Best
Dead Souls is one of the better of the generally excellent Inspector Rebus novels. (Review; get it here)

Honorable mentions
Linghun, by Ai Jiang (review; get it here)
Mickey⁷ by Edward Ashton, now filmed as Mickey 17 (review; get it here)
The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (my review on Infinity Plus; get it here)

Books that I rather bounced off though most other people thought they were great
The Book of the New Sun (four books), by Gene Wolfe (review; get it here and here)
The Area X trilogy (then three books, now four), by Jeff VanderMeer (review; get it here)
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (review of film and book; get it here)

The ones to avoid
No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media, by Peter Steven – out of date and ranty. (Review; get it here)
The Hidden War, by Michael Armstrong – I didn’t last fifty pages. (Review; get it here)