[Captain Compassion]

Been a SiFi fan for years. It's getting harder and harder to get good new books. Never been a big fantasy fan with the exception of some of the earlier authors such as Vance, Howard. Little hard SiFi now days. Too many chick books.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Martian: A Novel Kindle Edition

[BlueLancer]

"Never been a big fantasy fan with the exception of some of the earlier authors such as Vance, Howard."

You might try something I just found recently, what .. to me .. is a new genre: something called LitRPG. It comes in many sub-genres (sci-fi, fantasy, z-war, etc) and most of it appears to be very well-written. It's particularly enjoyable if you were a D&D or other RPG-type of old-style wargamer. You might want to start off with Aleron Kong or J.A. Cipriano; I've been very pleasantly surprised with their quality.