Finalist, Best Novel, 2022
She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan (opens in a new tab)
A peasant girl takes on her dead brother's identity and becomes a monk, then a general, in a rebellion against the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
The ballot
- A Desolation Called PeaceArkady MartineTorWinner
- Light From Uncommon StarsRyka AokiTor / St Martin’s PressRunner-up
- A Master of DjinnP. Djèlí ClarkTordotcom / Orbit UK
- The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky ChambersHarper Voyager / Hodder & Stoughton
- Project Hail MaryAndy WeirBallantine / Del Rey