1. 82 books read so far
2. Two excellent novellas from Tor: All Systems Red and Passing Strange
3. Three new authors of achingly lovely queer romance: KJ Charles, Alexis Hall, Roan Parrish
4. Most incisive depiction of the tension between friendship and real estate in modern Ireland: Tana French‘s Dublin Murder Squad series
5. How the hell does she write so prolifically and so well award: to Roxane Gay, for Difficult Women and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (a second time honoree, she also won in 2014 for Bad Feminist and An Untamed State) (preliminary theory: she just works really, really hard) (I love her)

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