It wasn't the last great book I read, it's one of the greatest! Glenn Kleier - The Knowledge Of Good & Evil.

Glenn is a good friend and father-figure to me. I love him. His books are amazing. Read his bio too.

This is a picture of me a few years back with one of his books.

@lerlo If you like Dan Brown, you might like Glenn's writings.

One great perk about being back in the US after teaching in Thailand since 2010, is getting all the ebooks to read I want, for FREE, from the local libraries through the Libby app, without having to buy Kindle books.
Since moving to Albuquerque, while recovering from cancer, I've been indulging in fun-to-read John Grisham novels. I only had The Firm and The Pelican Brief in my Kindle library and had reread them too many times.

Recently read Grisham books: The Summons, Camino Island, The Racketeer, The Rainmaker,

Return to Cold Mountain. Frazier's writing is Hemingway-esque.

Not that recent, but one I will never get out of my soul is "Their Eye's Were Watching God." Zora Neale Hurston - 1937

Ben Aaranovitch the Peter Gray books. Great adventure with lots of imagination.

This is definitely one of them (for me)

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I've been reading The Expanse book series. Love it!

Princess of Mars.
Yes. It is an amazing introspective look at racism and it's silliness from a 1905ish perspective.

Origin by Dan Brown...kinda like Angels & Demons...down on religion and written very well

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (I like all his stuff) I listened to the unabridged audio book and was totally hooked on it. I listened to the whole thing in a matter of days. I tried listening to a couple more audio books (I was an over-the-road truck driver at the time) but I couldn’t get it out of my mind so I listened to the whole book again!! Great characters, deep philosophy interwoven into the story beautifully. You get so immersed in the characters you have to find out where the story goes and how it ends. If you want a great Sci-if story with deep thoughts this is it. I believe he gave a seminar or a class on it at MIT.

Lord of the Flies. Finally got to it after wanting to read it for many years.

Of something I've read recently, I'd have to say the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've reread the first couple volumes in the misnamed trilogy. From his critique of religion -- In the beginning, God created the universe. And that was widely regarded as a bad move -- to one of humanity -- in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Earth turns out to be populated by a bunch of useless middle manager types, including people who work as phone booth disinfecters and the like, sent from a planet eager to be rid of them -- it offers a satirical vision worthy of many classic works of the genre.

"Scar" China Mie'ville. He weaves a complex story line, intense and engaging characters. He is one of the more complex fiction writers Ive read recently since Umberto Eco or Italo Calvino

I have become a Bill Bryson fan and the book "The Road to Little Dribbling." some books are funny but they all are very informative.

Eye candy: I’m re-reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
I used to like political/econ stuff, such as Naomi Wolf and Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn. Since I’ve had fibromyalgia brain fog, I stick to fiction. And FBI profiler books!

Brian Sanderson's Stormlight series.

Wow, that's a hard one to answer because there are in my book so many to choose from.
But off the top of my head I'll list a couple that have really stood out in recient times.

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has(among many) two in my list of favorites.
Death by black hole, and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, are the kind of books that has a great way of explaining astrophysics in a way that any one can understand.

And on a religious side Dr. Bart Ehrman has a few great ones as well. My favorite of his is a book called "Forged" which tells how the new testement has been rewritten, changed, altered, added to, and taken away from the oldest text we know, the ancient Greek writings.
It's a great read that shows that what most religious people think they know, and mostly from the King James bible, is not any where clost to the ancient writings.

I can suggest Поколения зимы (Pokoleniia zimy), translated as Generations of Winter. Vasilii Aksyonov's seminal novel. I also recommend Tahra Zara's The Great Departure.