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

• 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

• *Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• 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
• *The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
• 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

Time Travel

• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone