- Best General Science/Space History/Memoir: Lab Girl (previous decade: Riding Rockets; Honorable Mention: The Big Picture, We Have No Idea)
- Best Novel by a Nobelist: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Honorable Mention by a non-Nobelist: The Sea of Fertility)
- Best Whatever the Heck This Is: Self-Reference ENGINE
- Best IT-Related Nonfiction: Superintelligence (Honorable Mentions: The Codebreakers, The Book of Why, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, The Golden Ticket) Not without significant shortcomings, but a great springboard for conversation; there is also an even longer version of my review of this somewhere...
- Best Space Opera/Hard SF: Ancillary Justice (Very Honorable Mention: Three Body Problem)
- Best Cyberpunk: Daemon and Freedom(TM)
- Best Fantasy/Speculative Fiction: The Fifth Season
- Best History/Analysis: Why Nations Fail
- Best History/Big Picture Narrative: The Civil War Trilogy Apparently I didn't write a review, but I loved these books. Stiff competition from others on WWI, WWII, and topics such as the Crusades, the history of Islam, and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, though.
- Best History/Tight Focus: Hidden Figures
- Best Mystery: The City and the City
- Best Hard Boiled/Noir: The Maltese Falcon (I enjoyed rereading my own review! I should put in the effort more often.)
- Best Collection: The Found and the Lost
I'm sure I'll come back to this at some point and go, "Geez, what was I thinking when I left out...?!?" but this short list will have to do for now!
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