The New York Times
- The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, trans. Alison Watts (Bitter Lemon Press)
- Cardinal by Tyree Daye (Copper Canyon Press)
- Emporium (Nightboat Books) by Aditi Machado
- Fiebre Tropical by Juli Lopera Delgado (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- Inheritance by Taylor Johnson (Alice James Book)
- Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Amy Alznauer, illus. Ping Zhu (Enchanted Lion Books)
- When You Look Up by Decur trans. Garcia Roberts (Enchanted Lion Books)
NPR
- 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins (Copper Canyon Press)
- Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju (Iron Circus Comics)
- Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (TOON Graphics)
- Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman (Small Beer Press)
- The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri (Akashic Books)
- How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton, edited by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions)
- The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House Press)
- Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
- One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney (Coffee House Press)
- Sports is Hell by Ben Passmore (Koyama Press)
- The Sprawl by Jason Diamond (Coffee House Press)
- Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
New York Public Library
- The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, trans. Alison Watts (Bitter Lemon Press)
- Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju (Iron Circus Comics)
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)
- Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (TOON Graphics)
- Drawing on Walls by Matthew Burgess, illus. Josh Cochran (Enchanted Lion Books)
- A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok (Copper Canyon Press)
- Sports Is Hell by Ben Passmore (Koyama Press)
- Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
Brainpickings
- Drawing on Walls by Matthew Burgess, illus. Josh Cochran (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky by Hiroshi Osada, illus. Ryoji Arai, trans. David Boyd (Enchanted Lion Books)
- How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton, edited by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions)
Chicago Public Library
- Carteras y carteros by Caracolino illustrated by Canizales (Nubeocho)
- Federico and All His Families / Federico y sus familias by Mili Hernández, illustrated by Gómez (NubeOcho)
- Under the Great Plum Tree by Sufiya Ahmed, Reza Dalvand (Tiny Owl Publishing)
- Witchy Things / Cosas de bruja by Mariasole Brusa, illustrated by Marta Sevilla (NubeOcho)
Slate
- The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
The Boston Globe
- In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok, illus. Lenny Lishchenko (Inhabit Media)
- Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
Time Magazine
- Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
Oprah Magazine
- 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins (Copper Canyon Press)
- A World Between by Emily Hashimoto (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
Library Journal
- Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera (City Lights Publishers)
Kirkus Reviews
- Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky by Hiroshi Osada, illus. Ryoji Arai, trans. David Boyd (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Fiebre Tropical by Juli Lopera Delgado (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- I Don’t Expect Anyone To Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos, trans. Daniel Hahn (And Other Stories)
- Lizard’s Tale by Weng Wai Chan (Text Publishing Company)
- One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney (Coffee House Press)
- Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffee House Press)
- Small Mercies by Bridget Krone, illus. Karen Vermeulen (Catalyst Press)
- Stupid Black Girl by Aisha Redux, illus. Brianna McCarthy (Street Noise Press)
Publishers Weekly
- Bluebeard’s First Wife by Seong-nan Ha, trans. Janet Hong (Open Letter)
- Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry (Street Noise Books)
- DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books)
- Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky by Hiroshi Osada, illus. Ryoji Arai, trans. David Boyd (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- Mansour’s Eyes by Ryan Girod, trans. Chris Clarke (Transit Books)
- Obit by Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press)
- Out of Mesopotamia by Salar Abdoh (Akashic Books)
- Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
Literary Hub
- The Drive by Yair Assulin, trans. Jessica Cohen (New Vessel Press)
Paris Review
- A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok (Copper Canyon Press)
- DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books)
- Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes (Coffee House Press)
Blackout
- DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books)
- The Shore by Mark Nealon (Wave Books)
- Social Poetics by Mark Nowak (Coffee House Press)
Evanston Public Library
- The Secret of the Tattered Shoes by Jackie Morris, illustrated by Ehsan Abdollahi (Tiny Owl Publishing)
Thrillist
- Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi (Deep Vellum Books)
- Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
Shondaland
- Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Fiebre Tropical by Juli Lopera Delgado (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- Love after the End edited by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- We Want It All edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (Nightboat Books)
American Indians in Children’s Literature
- In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok, illus. Lenny Lishchenko (Inhabit Media)
- Kamik Takes the Lead by Darryl Baker, illus. Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media)
- The Wolf’s Trail by Thomas D. Peacock (Holy Cow! Press)
CBC
- Constantly by GG (Koyama Press)
- To Know You’re Alive by Dakota McFadzean (Conundrum Press)
Air & Space Magazine
- Jacob’s Fantastic Flight by Philip Waechter, trans. Elisabeth Lauffer (Blue Dot Kids Press)
Kenyon Review
- Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat (Sarabande Books)
Carnegie Endowment
- Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev, trans. Antonina W. Bouis (New Vessel Press)
Independent Book Review
- Fiebre Tropical by Juli Lopera Delgado (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
- Travelers Leaving for the City by Ed Skoog (Copper Canyon Press)
Largehearted Boy
- All Heathens by Marianne Chan (Sarabande Books)
Mother Jones
- Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis)
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
Penn Graduate School of Education
- Okapi Tale by Jacob Kramer, illus. K-Fai Steele (Enchanted Lion Books)
The Globe and Mail
- Constantly by GG (Koyama Press)
Baby Librarians
- Izzy and Frank by Katrina Lehman, illus. Sophie Beer (Scribe/Scribble)
- Who’s Your Real Mom? by Bernadette Green and Anna Zobel (Scribe/Scribble)
- Howl by Kat Patrick, illus. Evie Barrow (Scribe/Scribble)