"While the light grows ever thinner"

Here are the tens, in very brief review.

 Novels

Tamsyn Muir - Gideon the Ninth - Lesbian necromancers!
Seanan McGuire - In an Absent Dream - the Wayward Children fairyland I'd have been sent to, especially because of the focus on "fair value"
Michelle Markey Butler - Homegoing - someone deduces the concept of inflected language in a world of limited interest in reading.
Brittany Cavallaro - Question of Holmes - Sherlock Holmes by way of teenagers, with a female holmes.  and it's so good! she's so wounded and he's trying so hard and everyone is so sharp edged they cut when they don't mean to
Ruthanna Emrys - Deep Roots - academic anti-lovecraftian
Ashley Poston - The Princess and the Fangirl.  The prince and the pauper, but queer and at a convention.
Jen Wilde - Going off Script - This one's about queer representation in media, with more queer romance.
SY Yang - Black Tide of Heaven - I liked all of the Tensorate I've read, but this intro novel was definitely my favorite.
 

Shorts and others

Ruthanna Emrys - Imperfect Commentaries (shorts).  Super evocative, made Light and Delight and Abundance all read the first story with the first week of reading this book.  If I was going to recommend 
Mary Lambert - Shame is an Ocean (poetry)  Ouch. Super cathartic, a little bit like what I imagine chewing on glass must feel like
Mariko Tamaki - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with me (graphic)   Ridiculously adorable graphic novel about a highschool girl in a not-great relationship who at one point ruminates on whether her queer ancestors fought for their rights  so she could be in a regularly shitty relationship
Gaby Dunn - Please Send Help (modern epistolary)  Two girls, in different parts of the world, with different baggage, talking about all the post-college mistakes everyone probably has to make, in emails and text.
Taisia Kitaiskaia - Ask Baba Yaga (mythological advice)  Eerie and one of those things that was just so very much itself that it felt inspirational.  

Non fiction (ish)

Jes Baker - Landwhale and Lindsay West - Shrill - I still can't take up space with any sort of confidence or comfort, but books like both of these help get me closer.   Like a democratic candidate that runs not to win, but to tug the dialogue further to the left, these don't have a chance in hell against years of damage, but they poked some holes for the light to get in.
Katie West - Becoming Dangerous.   I think this is the book that changed me the most this year, helped me think about ways to bridge my vague longings for some sort of spirituality and my less-vague longings to be a social justice warrior.