Looking at this year’s Hugo finalists, I’ve read The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders; A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine; The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes; The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark; and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. All worth reading.