• Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda 
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger & Illustrated by Rovina Cai
• The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

• The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco
• Navigating with you by Jeremy Whitley & Cassio Ribeiro
• Cry Wolf Girl by Ariel Slamet Ries
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr., Jes Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo 
• Cat Man by PARARI
• Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
• Love Languages by James Albon
• Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave by Drew Beckmeyer
• Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead & Matthew Cordell
• The Strangest Fish by Katherine Arden & Zahra Marwan
• A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer & Maxwell Eaton III 
• Islandborn by Junot Díaz & Leo Espinosa 
• I know how to draw an owl by Hilary Horder Hippely & Matt James 
• The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition by Shirin Shamsi & Tarun Lak 
• If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone by Gideon Sterer

Honorable Mentions

• Bark Bark Girl by Michael Furler
• Everything Helen Oyeyemi
• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Land of the Lustrous Series by Haruko Ichikawa
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
• Of Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang
• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
• Sea Legs by Jules Bakes
• Shark Girl by Kate Beaton
• Syllabus by Lynda Barry
• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates