What got a 5/5 in 2021? Here’s the list. I acquired all of these from NetGalley; they’re listed in roughly the order I read them.
Fencing With the King by Diana Abu-Jaber
Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles, trans. Bryan Doerries
I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
Subterranea by Chris Fitch
Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze
The Orchard by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Spear by Nicola Griffith
Abbott: 1973 by Saladin Ahmed
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Shapers of Worlds Volume II by Edward Willett
Under Her Skin by Edited by Lindy Ryan & Toni Miller
A Woman’s Voice by Script by Aude Mermilliod, Martin Winckler & art by Aude Mermilliod
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 2 by Jonathan Strahan
When Things Get Dark by Joyce Carol Oates; Karen Heuler; Elizabeth Hand; Benjamin Percy
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Jessica Arden
Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman
Can You Sign My Tentacle? by Brandon O’Brien
Oil and Dust by Jami Fairleigh
Dark Stars by John F.D. Taff
The Resting Place by Camilla Sten
The Breath Between Waves by Charlotte Anne Hamilton
A Fine Yellow Dust by Laura Apol
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Queen’s Favorite Witch #1 by Benjamin Dickson
Singing Like Germans by Kira Thurman
The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper
Surviving American History by Max Howard
Mother/land by Ananda Lima
Music Is History by Questlove
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar
Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah
The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath
Requeening by Amanda Moore
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
Paradise by Lizzie Johnson
The Real Valkyrie by Nancy Marie Brown
All’s Well by Mona Awad
Call Me Athena by Colby Cedar Smith
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
Good Southern Witches by J.D. Horn (editor)
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
Four Hundred Souls by Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
We Two Alone by Jack Wang
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
The Savage Instinct by Marjorie DeLuca
Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
The Willow Wren by Philipp Schott
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
