Eagles Over the Kennebec

I second the recommendation for Michelle Sagara's Chronicles of Elantra series. I'm reading the newest now, but they really ought to be read in order. Cast in Shadow is the first.

I've been rereading Martha Wells's Books of the Raksura series (The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, and The Siren Depths). I own paper copies, but the release of an omnibus e-book tipped me over into buying that too. Fascinating worldbuilding, and I love the characters.

I really enjoyed Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon, but it's hard to describe except in general terms. It's a mainstream novel, not SF, although part of the connection between some characters is in fandom of a comic called Comrade Cosmos (who encourages people to change the world, while his opponent, the Emperor of Entropy, counsels fatalism). It's about people (fully individual, fleshed-out characters) trying to make sense of the world after a senseless murder, which sounds like it ought to be either deeply depressing or teeth-jarringly saccharine and is neither. It's about going on, because, really, what else are you going to do?