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Since I mentioned it and since it was specifically requested last year, here are my best reads that were published in 2016 (and read in 2016.)
The first two are by Brandon Sanderson; Bands of Mourning, book 2 in the Wax & Wayne Mistborn series, and Calamity, the final book in the Reckoners Trilogy. Both were very good but you really need to read the prior books to get much out of them. Brandon Sanderson is one of the authors where I don't mind starting a series* even if it isn't finished. He has been publishing 2-3 novels a year for the last few years, including some 1000+ page tomes, and has no signs of slowing down.
I also really enjoyed Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz. This is the first book in a new series similar to the "Equalizer" television series or the "A-Team" or even "Taken" with Liam Neeson. A highly trained operative is trying to help someone and bring some justice to the world while trying not to get caught himself. I look forward to more in the series but since this was just published many might want to wait until there is some backlog to read. There is a short story released in October (Buy a Bullet) and the next book, The Nowhere Man, is scheduled for January 17, 2017.
*I also don't mind reading episodic series if they are ongoing (like Orphan X) because they generally have a decent stopping point. Many Epic Fantasies (Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, Stormlight Archives, etc.) are really one long story told in several books rather than several related stories and I don't like to start them if I know there will be a cliffhanger.
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