Here are a few things from my recent reading list that I recommend highly.

Nonfiction:
Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos, by Robert Osserman
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, by Jason Roberts
The Lost Night, by Rachel Howard

Fiction:
Laura Restrepo, Delirium
Little King December, by Axel Hacke
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, by Nadine Gordimer
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, by Alix Kates Shulman
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, Brock Clarke
The Quiet Girl, by Peter Hoeg
Bad Girl, by Mario Vargas Llosa