While we still have two more major awards to go—the World Fantasy Awards in November and (ahem, ahem!) the Amazon Best Books of the Year announcement—this week seemed like a good time to look at the books that have been seizing accolades over the past year.

This year witnessed a remarkable hat trick, with Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars sweeping the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for best novel—a feat unseen since Connie Willis’ Blackout/All Clear won the same trio of awards in 2011.

Children of Blood and Bone grabbed two of the major young adult awards this year. Tomi Adeyemi's happy readers have been counting down the days until the arrival of the sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, reaches them on December 3.



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Audible Audiobook Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Best fantasy novel: Naomi Novik, whose fantasy novel Uprooted was the Amazon Books editors’ #1 choice for best science fiction and fantasy book of 2015, returns to the rich soil of folk tales with Spinning Silver. When a young Jewish woman takes over her father's moneylender business in their small village, she gains not only the fervent dislike of those she lends to (and collects from) but also the attention of an powerful ice lord who loves gold. At the same time, a young noblewoman discovers that her royal betrothed is possessed by a demon, whom she escapes nightly by entering into the ice world through a mirror. Told through various viewpoints, this tale of young women forcing a place for themselves in a world that would prefer them to be small and quiet will impress readers on a number of levels, not least of which is Novik's storytelling prowess.

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