Mr. Born, your reading list is somewhat of a surprise to me. Fantasy? Who knew? You are truly a Renaissance man.
Last year I read nothing but crime fiction because I was the chair of a major awards committee. The year before I read nothing but non fiction, including: the biography of President James Garfield and Catherine the Great of Russia, Unbroken, Eric Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, just to name a few. All of them were as compelling as any novel.
This year I'm reading a mix of everything. At the moment my nose is deep into Kim Fay's The Map of Lost Memories, which is set in Cambodia in the 1920s and which was nominated for a 2013 Best First Edgar. Steamy jungles. Steamy romances. Hidden treasures. Revolution. Something for everybody.
I read everything but these are fairly recent and therefore stuck in my head.
I do read crime fiction,just not all the time.
I loved Old Man's War! It came in a book bundle (have you heard of those? They're great!). Need to read the sequels yet.
I recently finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on audio book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I too am all over the place with my genres, though I seem to have a soft spot for British writers from almost any era.
My favorites outside the crime genre are Neal Stephenson and Naomi Novik. Stephenson's books are an amazing mix of sci-fi, fantasy and contemporary issues, and Novik writes about the Napoleonic Wars, only with dragons.