Anti-Capitalism
- Finna by Nino Cipri
- Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- What We Devour by Linsey Miller
Anti-Fascism
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
- The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith
- Let the Mountains Be My Grave by Francesca Tacchi
Climate Change
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- Compass Rose by Anna Burke
- Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
- Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
- Ruse by Cindy Pon (YA sequel)
- 2º by Bev Prescott
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After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
Colonialism
- Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
- The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
- Shadow Players by Heidi Heilig
Competition
- Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
- The Culling by Steven Dos Santos
- All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
- Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Conversion Therapy
- *Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Espionage
- The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
Feminism
- Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Final Girls
- *You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (YA)
- *The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan (YA)
- *Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
First Contact
- The Carls by Hank Green – B
Found Family
YA
- Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
- The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
- The Disasters by M.K. England
- The Black Veins by Ashia Monet (Amz)
- The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
Adult
- The Voyage of Cinrak the Dapper by AJ Fitzwater
- Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
- Among Thieves by M.J. Kuhn
- Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver
- *Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong
Friendship
- The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta (YA)
- When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey (YA)
Fundamentalism
- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Gender Identity
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA)
- Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz (YA)
- The Dark & Deep Blue by Niki Smith (MG)
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (YA)
Gender Transition
- Dreadnought by April Daniels
- The Four Profound Weaves by RB Lemberg
Haunted House
- She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Heists
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (YA)
- Pyre at the Eyreholme Trust by Lin Darrow
- Among Thieves by M.J. Kuhn
- *Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
Immigration
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (YA)
- Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro (YA)
Mentorship
- The Outside by Ada Hoffmann
Monstrousness and/or Villainy
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
- Malice by Heather Walter
- Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells
Mortality
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (YA)
Necromancy
- Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig
- Runebinder by Alex Kahler
- The Impossible Contract by K.A. Doore
Parenthood
- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
- I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Resistance and Rebellion
- The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
- The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (YA)
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (YA)
Revenge
- Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (YA)
- A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (YA)
- *Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Siblinghood
- The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco (YA)
- Skybound Saga by Alex London (YA)
Storytelling
- Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro