2021 Reading List

I’ll format this more sometime. 2021 works are organized by Hugo category, bolded if I’m considering them for nomination. (2021 works read in 2022 are marked with an asterisk.)

2021 Novels:

• Calculated Risks, Seanan McGuire
• A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
• Angel of the Overpass, Seanan McGuire
• The Dragon Stone Conspiracy, Amanda Cherry
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
• When Sorrows Come, Seanan McGuire
• Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
• The Liar’s Knot, M.A. Carrick
• Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee
• Paladin’s Hope, T. Kingfisher

2021 Novellas:

• Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
• The Past Is Red, Catherynne M. Valente
• Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

2021 Young Adult (Lodestar):

• Along the Saltwise Sea, A. Deborah Baker
• Tristan Strong Keeps Punching, Kwame Mbalia

Series Eligible for Nomination in 2022:

• InCryptid, Seanan McGuire
• Terra Ignota, Ada Palmer
• The Green Bone Saga, Fonda Lee
• Tristan Strong, Kwame Mbalia

Non-2021 works:

• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2: The Hammer of Thor, Rick Riordan
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3: The Ship of the Dead, Rick Riordan
• The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Speak Easy, Catherynne M. Valente
• A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik
• Dying With Her Cheer Pants On, Seanan McGuire
• Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear
• Machine, Elizabeth Bear
• Or What You Will, Jo Walton
• The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
• Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
• Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer
• The Will to Battle, Ada Palmer
• The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Olivia Waite
• The Hidden Oracle, Rick Riordan
• The Dark Prophecy, Rick Riordan
• The Burning Maze, Rick Riordan
• The Tyrant’s Tomb, Rick Riordan
• The Tower of Nero, Rick Riordan
• The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick
• Jade City, Fonda Lee
• Jade War, Fonda Lee