"Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we're all about spotting trends, and we can confidently proclaim 2022 as the year of the "genre-bending" novel. (How many pitches have our editors received with that exact phrase this year? The limit...might not exist!) Oftentimes, these books boldly blend sci-fi or fantasy with one or more other genres.
Never before has categorizing books in our coverage proved so difficult. Never before has the catch-all term speculative fiction done so much work. And don't even get us started on the new spate of self-described "science fantasy," like The Book Eaters, The Genesis of Misery, and The Blood Trials!
Below, you'll find 88 genre-bending stories, published since 2019 through the end of this year. Alternative Americas from renowned realist fiction writers (Hanya Yanigahara's To Paradise, Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts)! Time-traveling detectives! Erotic monsters!"
