I’m going to be posting some of my favorite books and stories here as a reminder to myself for when award nominations roll around. Because I’m starting this quite late in the year, I’ll also be doing some oh shit i forgot… additions as I get to them, as well as bemoaning the nature of time and how many books I read this year that were from 2021.
Novels
Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
The Sleepless by Victor Manibo
Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke
Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly
No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Ion Curtain by Anya Ow
Novellas
Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller
“Radcliffe Hall” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard (Uncanny)
Novelettes
“Shadows of the Hungry, the Broken, the Transformed” by Izzy Wasserstein (Cossmass Infinities)
Short Stories
“The Cheesemaker and the Undying King” by Lina Rather (Lightspeed)
“Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare)
“The Application of Strawberry Lip Gloss in a Low-Gravity Environment” by R.J. Theodore (Lightspeed)
“Douen” by Suzan Palumbo (The Dark)
“The Found Recollections of Revalor’s Last Oracle” by Elsa Sjunneson (The Sunday Morning Transport)
“Girl Oil” by Grace P. Fong (Tor dot com)
“Iconophobe” by Sam J. Miller (F&SF)
Other
“The Necessity of Trans Joy” by Izzy Wasserstein (Uncanny)