- Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
- Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
- Steering the Craft: A 21st Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Patchwerk by David Tallerman
- Lustlocked by Matt Wallace
- The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
- Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
- Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare’s Fantasy World by Jonathan Barnes, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, Kate Heartfield, and Foz Meadows
- Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
- The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (DNF)
- Bitch Planet Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine
- Planetfall by Emma Newman
- ODY-C Volume 1 by Matt Fraction
- A Song for No Man’s Land by Andy Remic
- Daughter of Destiny by Nicole Evelina
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
- Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
- Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen
- Genrenauts #2: The Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. Underwood
- Pieces of Hate by Tim Lebbon
- The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik
- The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard
- Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Up and Coming: Stories from the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors edited by S.L. Huang and Kurt Hunt
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
- The Emperor’s Railroad by Guy Haley
- A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly
- A Whisper of Southern Lights by Tim Lebbon
- Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- Pride’s Spell by Matt Wallace
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
- Runtime by S.B. Divya
- Return of Souls by Andy Remic
- Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
- Lumberjanes, Volume One: Beware the Kitten Unholy
- Lumberjanes, Volume Two: Friendship to the Max
- Faith, Volume One: Hollywood & Vine
- Rat Queens, Volume Three: Demons
- Lightspeed Magazine, June 2016, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
- The Ghoul King by Guy Haley
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #200
- Necessity by Jo Walton
- Nightshades by Melissa F. Olson
- City of Wolves by Willow Palecek
- Monstress, Volume 1 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
- Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- A Blade of Black Steel by Alex Marshall
- Poison or Protect by Gail Carriger
- An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
- Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
- United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas
- Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Cold-Forged Flame by Marie Brennan
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #196
- “Finnegan’s Field” by Angela Slatter
- “Lullaby for a Lost World” by Aliette de Bodard
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- The Warren by Brian Evenson
- “The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin (short story)
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ
- Nightmare Magazine, October 2016, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
- Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
- Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
- A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
- The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell
- Goldenhand by Garth Nix
- Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
- The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger
- The Convergence of Fairy Tales by Octavia Cade
- Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny
- The Burning Light by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler
- Prudence by Gail Carriger
- Imprudence by Gail Carriger
- Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey
- Fantasy Magazine, December 2016, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue
- Uncanny Magazine #13 Nov/Dec 2016
- Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older
- Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1
- The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler
- Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling edited by Jaym Gates
- Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- Behind the Throne by K.B. Wagers
- After the Crown by K.B. Wagers
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