Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order:

Fiction

• Courtship Rite (Donald Kingsbury)
• The Steerswoman (Rosemary Kirstein)
• Tschick (Wolfgang Herrndorf)
• Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• A Wind in Cairo (Judith Tarr)
• The Wheel of Time (an epic series) (Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson)
• Old Man’s War (series) (John Scalzi)

Non-fiction

• From What Is to What If (Rob Hopkins)
• Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (Scott Andrew Selby & Greg Campbell)
• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Jane McGonigal)
• Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave (Adam Alter)
• Everyday Data Science: Optimize Your Life (Andrew N Carr)
• The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Leonard Mlodinow)
• Erzählende Affen: Mythen, Lügen, Utopien – wie Geschichten unser Leben bestimmen (Samira El Ouassil & Friedemann Karig)