Fantasy:
The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
Sabriel, Lirael & Abhorsen

Hood, Scarlet, Huck – Steven Lawhead

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Karen Memory – Elizabeth Bear (fast summer read)

The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett

Science Fiction:
Debatable Space by Philip Palmer

The Icarus Hunt Timothy Zahn

Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Changeling Plague by Syne Mitchell

Novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

A Heroine of the World by Tanith Lee