Here are my top reads for this year:
Favorite new-to-me book:
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Thank you
astrangerhere for the strong recommendation of this last year (or 2018?).
Honorable mentions: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Excellent story but it was hard for me to read books in a series this year so this one didn't quite make the top spot.
Favorite short story:
Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar. Linked to the text version but you should listen to LeVar Burton's audio version
here.
Favorite book published this year:
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Honorable mention: N/A - I didn't get to a couple of the books I expected to be favorites - Network Effect by Martha Wells (I love Murderbot), Peace Talks by Jim Butcher and a couple new Penric and Desdemona novellas by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Right now I don't really have any must reads lined up for 2021. There is a new Orphan X story coming out in January but the last one wasn't my favorite of the series. Hopefully this one will go better.