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What an excellent idea. Let me look through my list and see. I'll split my likes into two parts.
First: stand-alone or first in series books:
Catweazle by Richard Carpenter. A nostalgia trip, as I remember the TV series fondly.
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker. An excellent fantastical realism novel.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. A new SF writer (& series) to watch.
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. An excellent starting point for the Sharpe series.
A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer. A fantasy re-read, and as good the second time around.
Ann of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. A most enjoyable classic that I hadn't read before.
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. An excellent SF series, sadly uncompleted so far.
The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. All the Jeeves short stories. Splendid!
Anathem by Neal Stephenson. A very interesting SF world.
Poldark by Winston Graham. A wonderful start to the historical series
Dodger by Terry Pratchett. An excellent stand-alone novel.
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Another excellent first novel in a fantasical reality series.
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler. Wonderful high quality short stories.
Second: on-going series that I read or re-read in 2015:
Lost Fleet and subsequent series by Jack Campbell
Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters
The Rabbi novels by Harry Kemelman
The Young Wizard novels by Diane Duane
Liaden Universe stories by Lee and Miller
Grantville Gazettee and the 1632 novels by Eric Flint et al.
The Xenowealth series by Tobias Buckell
The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
The Paksenarrion series by Elizabeth Moon
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
The Farseer books by Robin Hobb
Five Gods stories by Lois McMaster Bujold
Agatha Christie's books
Some of the series I'm eagerly waiting for the next one. Some I'm still reading through as the whim takes me, some I'm deliberately savouring by not rushing through them too quickly. All the above series are excellent.
I'm really looking forward to reading more by all the above authors in 2016, and finding some new authors too.
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