Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen

In Florida, a trash private detective chases trashy murderers, killing trashy victims in trashy ways for trashy reasons.

Fantastic low-brow fun. Occasionally gruesome, but never enough to spoil the ride.

Station Eleven – Emily St. John MandeL

A great bit of post-apocalyptic speculative fiction. Most post-apocalyptic stories pick up many years after the collapse of society. Not Station Eleven. Its touching narrative tunnels through the hours, days, months, and years before and after a lethal flu wipes out most of humanity.