The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns
Orbit by Leigh Hellman
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Bonus: Coming up in September, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
People Like Us by Dana Mele
A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho
Bonus: Coming up in May, Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan!
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
The Lifeline Signal by RoAnna Sylver
Seafoam and Silence by Lynn O’Connacht
37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain by Will Walton
Coming up in 2019: The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
All series are listed by first book.
Black Wings Beating by Alex London
Cloaked in Shadow by Ben Alderson
Timekeeper by Tara Sim
Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler
The Fever King by Victoria Lee
Bonus: Coming in 2020, Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
Assassins: Discord by Erica Cameron
Resistance by B.R. Sanders
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
The Perfect Assassin by K.A. Doore
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst
Seraphina and Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
The Second Mango by Shira Glassman
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
Snow Globe by Georgia Beers
Real World by AJ Cousins
Mistletoe by Lyn Gardner
Icecapade by Josh Lanyon
Under a Falling Star by Jae
Bonus: Check out last year’s Backlist Book of December, All I Want for Christmas by Clare Lydon! And though it is a sequel, Wrapped Up in You by Ceilie Simkiss can probably be read as a standalone.
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith
The Last Beginning by Lauren James
The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon
A Knight to Remember by Bridget Essex
Time Was by Ian McDonald
Bonus: For a novella series, check out Alice Payne by Kate Heartfield!
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry
Bonus: Not Your Villain by CB Lee has a bi trans guy MC who’s crushing on a girl, but that…may or may not work out.
Double bonus: coming in 2019: Squad by Mariah MacCarthy, The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos, Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith, and The Book of Love by NoNieqa Ramos
