Spec Fic by Theme/Trope

Anti-Capitalism

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

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

  • *Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
  • Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Espionage

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

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

Friendship

  • The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta (YA)
  • When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey (YA)

Fundamentalism

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

Haunted House

  • She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Heists

Immigration

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

Parenthood

  • The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
  • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

Resistance and Rebellion

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

Time Travel

 

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