I'm a book addict and the genre matters not as long as the prose sings to me.
Vocationally I'm a Systems Engineer and avocationally a Book Reviewer. In the early days I felt like I had been skimming too much and not really getting much out of my reading.
Then came Close Reading and Book Reviewing.
And nothing was ever the same.

Vignettes:

“China Mountain Zhang”by Maureen F. McHugh
“A Wizard of Earthsea” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Killing of the Tinkers” by Ken Bruen
“Police” by Jo Nesbo
“Shards of Honor” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Leviathan Wakes” by James S.A. Corey, Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck
“Miami Blues” by Charles Ray Willeford
“London Boulevard” by Ken Bruen
“Heaven's Prisoners” by James Lee Burke
“O Senhor Juarroz” by Gonçalo M. Tavares
“Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica” by Gonçalo M. Tavares
“Foxtrot Oscar” by Charlie Owen
“Permutation City” by Greg Egan
“Cold Red Sunrise” by Stuart M. Kaminsky
“Closed for Winter” by Jorn Lier Horst, Anne Bruce
“Runner of Pern” by Anne McCaffrey
“Hard Feelings” by Jason Starr
“Early Autumn” by Robert B. Parker
“Hyperion” by Dan Simmons
“Joyland” by Stephen King
“Jerusalém” by Gonçalo M. Tavares
“The Adjacent” by Christopher Priest
“Galileo's Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Way Station” by Clifford D. Simak
“The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester
“A Delicate Truth” by John le Carré
“The Cold Cold Ground” by Adrian McKinty
“Raid and the Blackest Sheep” by Harri Nykänen, Peter Ylitalo Leppa
“Wool Omnibus” by Hugh Howey
“He Died with His Eyes Open” by Derek Raymond
“The Last Policeman” by Ben H Winters
“Abide With Me” by Ian Ayris
“Pop.1280” by Jim Thompson
“Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned” by Walter Mosley
“The Red Knight” by Miles Cameron
“Gun Machine” by Warren Ellis
“Doctor Copernicus” by John Banville
“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George V. Higgins
“Falling Glass” by Adrian McKinty