- Punch Like a Girl – Karen Krossing
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
- Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta
- The Outside Circle – Patti LaBoucane-Benson
- Denton Little’s Deathdate – Lance Rubin
- Zeroboxer – Fonda Lee
- Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon
- Exposed – Judith Graves
- Laughing at My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw
- Red Rising – Pierce Brown