Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order:

Fiction

• Artemis / The Martian (Andy Weir)
• Die Henkerin / Die Tränen der Henkerin (Sabine Martin)
• Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
• Origin (Dan Brown)
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Stanisław Lem)
• The Power (Naomi Alderman)
• ZERO – Sie wissen, was du tust (Marc Elsberg)

Book recommendations by other readers:

• Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
• The Fractal Prince (The Jean le Flambeur series) (Hannu Rajaniemi)
• Thigmoo (Eugene Byrne)
• Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota series) (Ada Palmer)

Non-fiction

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Darm mit Charme (Giulia Enders)
• Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser (Ernst H. Gombrich)
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hans Rosling) (TED Talk)
• Kunst des klaren Denkens / Die Kunst des klugen Handelns (Rolf Dobelli)
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson)
• Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (Michael Schrenk)

Book recommendations by other readers:

• Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (David Sloan Wilson)
• Das Digital (Viktor Mayer-Schönberger und Thomas Ramge)
• Der Ego-Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
• Der Mann und das Holz – Vom Fällen, Hacken und Feuermachen (Lars Mytting)
• Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner)
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein)
• Preference Falsification (Timur Kuran)
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
• The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Tor Nørretranders)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis & Allan Fisher)

PS: Here you’ll find A Helpful Guide to Reading Better. Thx Jonas for the pointer B-)