I’ve been posting my favorite books of the year for (over) 5 years now, so I decided to scour the last 5 years to find my favorite books from my favorite books. Here they are:
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (from 2021)
Paris Out of Hand by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (from 2018)
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (from 2019)
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (from 2018)
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (from 2017)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (from 2017)
A Stranger in Oolondria by Sofia Samatar (from 2017)