Runner-up, Best Novel, 2022

Light From Uncommon Stars

Ryka Aoki (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 368 pages

A violin teacher who has sold her soul to a demon finds a runaway trans girl with a gift for the instrument, and falls for a donut-shop owner from another star.

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The ballot

A Desolation Called PeaceArkady MartineTorWinner
A Master of DjinnP. Djèlí ClarkTordotcom / Orbit UK
The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky ChambersHarper Voyager / Hodder & Stoughton
She Who Became the SunShelley Parker-ChanTor / Mantle
Project Hail MaryAndy WeirBallantine / Del Rey