Some of favorite fantasy books:

• Cradle by Will Wight
• Mage Errant by John Bierce
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis
• Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
• The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
• Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
• The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang

Some of my favorite sci-fi:

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Sourdough by Robin Sloan
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Dim Stars: A Novel of Outer-Space Shenanigans by Brian P. Rubin
• Daros by Dave Dobson
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

I also started a blog couple of years back for reviews: https://learnbyexample.github.io/escapist-reviews/