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FWIW one of my favourites from Clarke is The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Kube-McDowell. I'm still waiting for it to appear as an ebook. To my tastes it is one of the few successful collaborations that Clarke did. (I liked the start of The Light of Other Days, with Stephen Baxter, but the last quarter was all downhill - a very steep hill. As for Cradle, with Gentry Lee, it's one of the few books in my paper collection to get a 1/5 = "Waste of Space".)
Rendezvous with Rama appears to have been forgettable (as in: pretty sure I did read it many years ago but don't remember it).
I do enjoy 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it got a downgrade out of my list of favourites the last time I re-read it. The faults stand out to me more than they once did.
Curiously enough, I've never read The City and the Stars. I had really liked Against the Fall of Night and was wary of picking up the rewrite. But I do now own The City and the Stars in ebook, so will probably get to it.
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But back to the OP. Asimov was one of the favourite authors of my youth, and I still have a soft spot for his work. In general I liked his novels much more than say Clarke's (Clarke's stories often felt like not much more than a framework for a neat idea), and Asimov's non-fiction was excellent. It has not all aged that well, but I still enjoy going through the main opus (Robots/Empire/Foundation) every now and then.
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