- Award Category: Best First Novel Award Category Record # 349
- Award Type: Locus Poll Award
- Display Order: 11
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elatsoe | Darcie Little Badger |
| 2 | The Space Between Worlds | Micaiah Johnson |
| 3 | Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas |
| 4 | The Bone Shard Daughter | Andrea Stewart |
| 5 | The Vanished Birds | Simon Jimenez |
| 6 | Architects of Memory | Karen Osborne |
| 7 | Beneath the Rising | Premee Mohamed |
| 8 | Hench | Natalie Zina Walschots |
| 9 | The Unspoken Name | A. K. Larkwood |
| 10 | The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea | Maggie Tokuda-Hall |
| 11 | The Wall | Gautam Bhatia |
| 12 |
Vagabonds
(translation of 流浪苍穹?liú làng cāng qióng )
|
Hao Jingfang |
| 13 | The Year of the Witching | Alexis Henderson |
| 14 | Star Daughter | Shveta Thakrar |
| 15 | The Twice-Drowned Saint | C. S. E. Cooney |
| 16 | Stonefish | Scott R. Jones |
| 17 | Every Bone a Prayer | Ashley Blooms |
| 18 |
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
(translation of 팔십 이년생 김지영?Palsip Yi Nyeon Saeng Kim Jiyeong )
|
Cho Nam-Joo |
| 19 | Little Eyes (translation of Kentukis) | Samanta Schweblin |
| 20 | Love and Other Thought Experiments | Sophie Ward |
| 21 | Eartheater (translation of Cometierra) | Dolores Reyes |