Every year, as the Cybils nomination period draws to a close, I wait in anxious suspense, hoping that all of my favorites from the past year will be nominated – or at least, all but one, so that I can nominate that final title myself. Nominations close on October 15th, and so far there are many, many titles that are missing. These are just the ones I’ve read myself, but there are many other good ones that I would like to read and am still hoping will be nominated.

If you haven’t nominated anything yet yourself, read through this list (or look through your own reading list from the past year) and see what you might feel motivated to nominate. Remember, nominating a book doesn’t mean you think it’s the best book you’ve ever read or the very best to come out this year, but that it is a solid title that you think deserves to be given a read-through by the round 1 panelists.

Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction

• Kiki Kallira Conquers a Curse by Sandu Mandanna
• Girl Giant and the Jade War by Van Hoang
• Second Sleep by Diane Stanley
• Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall
• Velvet Fox by Catherine Fisher
• Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark
• It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds
• Valentina Salazar is NOT a Monster Hunter by Zoraida Cordova
• Drifters by Kevin Emerson
• Zia Erases the World by Bree Barton
• Last Fallen Moon by Graci Kim
• Castle of Tangled Magics by Sophie Anderson
• Alliana, Girl of Dragons by Julie Abe
• Shelterlings by Sarah Beth Durst
• Riley’s Ghost by John David Anderson
• Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa
• Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas
• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tọlá Okogwu
• Nura and the Immortal Palace by MT Khan

Middle Grade Fiction

• Other Side of the River by Alda P. Dobbs
• Operation Sisterhood by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
• Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
• Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly

There are more ideas over at the Cybils Idea Boards for these and all the other categories! Please go forth and nominate!