What should I read?

I'm getting ready to do a big reading push so that I can be a somewhat-informed nominator for the Hugos and the Nebulas. I always intend to read everything as it gets published, but then a lot of stuff gets published, and I get behind. You know? So, I was hoping y'all would help me find some places to start reading.

Tell me what you're excited about! What did you read this year that you loved? What changed you? What got under your skin? What was just an awesomely fun time? What did you keep to read a second time and maybe a third? What made you think 'wow"?

Send me links. Send me files. Send me titles!

I haven't read as much this year as I wish I had, but here are some of the things that I've encountered and really enjoyed:

"The History Within Us" by Matt Kressel
"Flying in the Face of God" by Nina Allen (originally published in Interzone and not online, but here's a review from Niall Harrison)
"Ghosts of New York" by Jennifer Pelland
"Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn
"Conditional Love" by Felicity Shoulders (originally published in Asimov's; here's the writer's page)
"The History of Poly-V" by Jon Ingold (originally in Interzone, here's my review)
"Petopia" by Benjamin Crowell (originally in Asimov's)

For novels:

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (not my favorite of his historical fantasies, but solid)
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

I read some other novels that I enjoyed this year, but I tend to read novels at random times, and not just when they were published, so it's hard for me to remember what's eligible. I may have forgotten some important ones.