Here is a list I just compiled. The ones with a star are a little more outstanding than the other favorites. Many of these are audiobooks I have listened to.
Favorite Fiction Books:
*The Martian by Andy Weir
*The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
*The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards (audio a must!)
*The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
*Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (audio a must!)
*My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
*Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
*Paranoia by Joseph Finder
*The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
*Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
*The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
*The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
*The Help by Kathryn Stockett
* Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
*City of Thieves by David Benioff
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (YA)
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Dancing at the Rascal Faire byIvan Doig
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel by Rachel Joyce
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Winds of War & War and Rembrance by Herman Wouk (audio outstanding)
Non-Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel (audio a must, narrated by author)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard