B&N Favorite SFF Books of 2018

Favorite SF&F:

• Senlin Ascends, Josiah Bancroft (Orbit)
• Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• Temper, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager)
• Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (Harper Voyager)
• Bloody Rose, Nicholas Eames (Orbit)
• Salvation, Peter F. Hamilton (Del Rey)
  
• The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco)
• Before Mars, Emma Newman (Ace)
  
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• A Study in Honor, Claire O’Dell (Harper Voyager)
  
• Quietus, Tristan Palmgren (Angry Robot)
  
• Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
• Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
  
• Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
  
• Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio (DAW)
• Vengeful, V.E. Schwab (Tor)
  
• The Book of M, Peng Shepherd (William Morrow)
• Rosewater, Tade Thompson (Apex)
  
• Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
• Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima, Daniel Huddleston trans. (Haikasoru)
  
• Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
  

Alternate Universe:

• Magic Triumphs, Ilona Andrews (Ace)
• Treason of Hawks, Lila Bowen (Orbit)
• Iron Gold, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
• Starless, Jacqueline Carey (Tor)
  
• Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
  
• An Easy Death, Charlaine Harris (Saga)
  
• The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris)
  
• Grey Sister, Mark Lawrence (Ace)
  
• Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
  
• Alternate Routes, Tim Powers (Baen)
  
• Summerland, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
  
• Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
  

The Year’s Best Collections & Anthologies:

• The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
  
• An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)
  
• Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
  
• The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin, illustrated by Charles Vess (Saga)
  
• Apocalypse Nyx, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
  
• How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Tomorrow Factory, Rich Larson (Talos)
  
• Robots vs Fairies, Navah Wolfe & Dominic Parisian, eds. (Saga)
  
• Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Vandana Singh (Small Beer)
  
• Starlings, by Jo Walton (Tachyon)