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2025

September: A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

August: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

July: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

June: In Universes by Emet North

See also: Bookwyrm version of this list, maintained by Tak

May: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Apr: Countess by Suzan Palumbo

Mar: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Feb: Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

Jan: Bones and Runes by Stephen Embleton

2024

Dec: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

Oct-Nov: Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, tr Ursula Le Guin

September: Counterweight by Djuna

August: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

July: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

June: sequels

May: David Mogo: Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

April: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

March: sequels

February: Babel by R.F. Kuang

January: How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

2023

December: Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr

November: sequels

October: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

September: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

August: Hugo award nominees

July: sequels

June: Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer

May: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

April: A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

March: Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

February: Infomocracy by Malka Older

January: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon

2022

December: sequels

November: The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

October: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone

September: She Who Became The Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan

August: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

July: The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

June: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborti

May: Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

April: skipped

March: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

February: The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian

January: sequels

2021

December: Jade City by Fonda Lee

November: Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

October: Blindsight by Peter Watts

September: Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter

August: We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

July: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

June: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

May: sequels

Apr: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Mar: A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow

Feb: Crimson Odyssey by CT Rwizi

Jan: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

2020

Dec: The Red Threads of Fortune Neon Yang (fka JY Yang)

Nov: The Fifth Season NK Jemisin

Oct: The Dispossessed Ursula Le Guin

Sep: The Prey Of Gods Nicky Drayden

Aug: The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline

Jul: Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

Jun: Murderbot novellas (all 4) Martha Wells

May: The City We Became NK Jemisin

Apr: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps Kai Ashante Wilson

Mar: Waste Tide Chen Qiufan

Feb: Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler

Jan: The Second Mango Shira Glassman

2019

Dec: sequels

Nov: Invisible Planets ed. Ken Liu (short story collection)

Oct: A Stranger in Olondria Sofia Samatar

Sep: The Black God's Drums P. Djèlí Clark

Aug: Spinning Silver Naomi Novik

Jul: A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine

Jun: The Raven Tower Ann Leckie

May: Temper Nicky Drayden

Apr: Trail of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse

Mar: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers

Feb: Dawn Octavia Butler

2018

Nov: The Tea Master and the Detective Aliette de Bodard

Oct: The Girl with All the Gifts M. R. Carey

Sep: The Wildings Nilanjana Roy

Aug: The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu

Jul: River of Teeth Sarah Gailey

Jun: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Margaret Killjoy

May: Binti Nnedi Okorafor

Apr: Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie

Mar: Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor

Feb: Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

Jan: Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin

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