Two books recently completed:
Wool by Hugh Howey.
Excellent "distopian" SF about people living in a "silo" - an underground city - in the US, centuries after what appears to have been a nuclear or chemical warfare attack. Speculating about the outside world or expressing a desire to leave is strictly forbidden, the punishment being expulsion from the silo into the toxic outside world where life expectancy is only minutes. Very, very good indeed. Extremely highly recommended!
Stars Over Stars by K.D. Wentworth.
I bought this from Baen in 2001. A sequel to the earlier "Black on Black". Baen description:
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Raised by a human, Heyoka Blackeagle thinks like a human, even if he is a typical hrinn—seven feet tall, covered with fur, retractable claws. In the war against the insectlike flek, Heyoka distinguished himself in the Ranger Corps. Now, on a planet from which the flek have been driven, he's leading a group of humans and hrinn, trying to prove that hrinn can make proficient rangers in spite of their disdain for following orders.
Then a hidden, fully functional flek stargate is found, ready to transport flek hordes. And word comes of a flek advance. The planet must be evacuated, but rather than abandon his team in the jungle, Heyoka stays behind, only to find that his human partner Mitsu, once a flek POW, is hallucinating, seeing nonexistent flek. And then the real flek arrive. . . .
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Excellent, although I'd recommend reading "Black on Black" first.