The 2024 Locus Awards Finalists Are Here

Fantasy Novel

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

• The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott

• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

• Dead Country by Max Gladstone

• The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

• Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher

• He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

• My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

• City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Witch King by Martha Wells

Horror Novel

• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

• A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

• Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

• Lone Women by Victor LaValle

• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Young Adult Novel

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders

• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila

• Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

• A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

• The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson

• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

• Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

First Novel

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

• Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

• These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

• Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

• The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan

• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Collection

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle

• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

• The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

• White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

• No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed

• Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran

• Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo

• Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker

• The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two by Michael Swanwick

• The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One by Catherynne M. Valente

Non-Fiction

• The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History by Jack Dann

• 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Kevin Jon Davies, ed.

• Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir by M. John Harrison

• All These Worlds by Niall Harrison

• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

• Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color by Chinelo Onwualu, ed.

• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller by Maureen Kincaid Speller

• Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God by Robert Charles Wilson

• Being Michael Swanwick by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro