Washington Post Best Books of 2021

The Washington Post has published a piece on the best SF, fantasy, and horror of 2021, selected by writers Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar. Books mentioned include:

• Unity, Elly Bangs (Tachyon)
• His Name Was Death, Rafael Bernal (New Directions)
• Inscape, Louise Carey (Gollancz)
• Goddess of Filth, V. Castro (Creature)
• Philosophy Through Science Fiction, Helen De Cruz, Johon De Smedt & Eric Schwitzgebel, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic)
• A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson (Nyx)
• Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge,  translated by Jeremy Tiang (Melville)
• The Liar of Red Valley, Walter Goodwater (Solaris)
• Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• The Album of Dr. Moreau, Daryl Gregory (Tordotcom)
• Composite Creatures, Caroline Hardaker (Angry Robot)
• The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Ten Low, Stark Holborn (Titan)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
• The Cabinet, Un-su Kim,  translated by Sean Lin Halbert (Angry Robot)
• Sword Stone Table, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca (Weirdpunk)
• AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan (Currency)
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
• Sinopticon, Xueting Christine Ni (Rebellion)
• Notes From The Burning Age, Claire North (Orbit)
• Son of the Storm, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Orbit)
• How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters, Erica L. Satifka (Fairwood)
• The Memory Theater, Karin Tidbeck (Pantheon)
• Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
• The Secret Skin, Wendy Wagner (Neon Hemlock)
• Skyward Inn, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)