Here are the novels and short fiction from 2017 which I'm recommending people consider for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. This list will inform my eventual nominations for all those awards.
That said, this list is not all-inclusive. I actually read less in 2017 than in many previous years. I'm trying to fix this by reading and reviewing a short story each day during 2018. You can follow my progress on Twitter and my Patreon. If you like what I'm doing consider becoming one of my Patreon backers.
Note: If no link is provided for a work that means it can be found through your local bookseller or in the specified back issue of a magazine.
Novels
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
- Borne: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer
- City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- The Rift by Nina Allan
- The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Young Adult Novels
- The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
- The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan
Novella
- A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power by Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- And Then There Were (N-One) by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine)
- Barry's Deal by Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)
- Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
- In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
- Nexus by Michael Flynn (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2017)
- Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor)
- Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang (Tor)
Novelette
- A Human Stain by Kelly Robson (Tor.com)
- Concessions by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)
- Dirty Old Town by Richard Bowes (F&SF, May/June 2017)
- I Am Not I by G. V. Anderson (F&SF, July/Aug 2017)
- Interchange by Gary Kloster (Clarkesworld)
- Later, Let's Tear Up That Inner Sanctum by A. Merc Rustad (Lightspeed)
- Other Worlds and This One by Cadwell Turnbull (Asimov's Science Fiction, July/Aug 2017)
- Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K.M. Szpara (Uncanny Magazine)
- That Lingering Sweetness by Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- The Birding: A Fairy Tale by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons)
- The Goddess of the Highway by Erica L. Satifka (Interzone issue 272)
- Vinegar and Cinnamon by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017)
- We Who Live in the Heart by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld)
- When Stars Are Scattered by Spencer Ellsworth (Tor.com)
- Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2017)
Short Story
- A Place to Grow by A.T. Greenblatt (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- A Singular Event in the Fourth Dimension by Andrea M. Pawley (Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2017)
- Airswimming by Aisha Phoenix (Strange Horizons)
- An Equal Share of the Bone by Karen Osborne (Escape Pod)
- Bodies Stacked Like Firewood by Sam Miller (Uncanny Magazine)
- Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine)
- Marley and Marley by J.R. Dawson (F&SF, Nov/Dec 2017)
- Memories of Fish by Shauna O'Meara (Interzone, issue 270)
- Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story by S.B. Divya (Tor.com)
- Monster Girls Don't Cry by A. Merc Rustad (Uncanny Magazine)
- On the Ship by Leah Cypess (Asimov's Science Fiction, May/June 2017)
- Queen of Dirt by Nisi Shawl (Apex Magazine)
- Rushford Recapitulation by Christopher Mark Rose (Interzone, issue 270)
- Say, She Toy by Chesya Burke (Apex Magazine)
- Secret Keeper by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Nightmare)
- Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango by Ian Muneshwar (The Dark)
- Suddenwall by Sara Saab (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- The Big So-So by Erica L. Satifka (Interzone, issue 273)
- The Famine King by Darcie Little Badger (Mythic Delirium)
- The Rocket Farmer by Julie Day (Interzone, issue 271)
- The Sound Of by Charles Payseur (Nightmare)
- The Stone Weta by Octavia Cade (Clarkesworld)
- The Thirty-Seven Faces of Tokh-Bathon by Effie Seiberg (Pod Castle)
- With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips by Beth Cato (Uncanny Magazine)