There are so many more favorite authors and books for me than are on this list; these are just the ones I found have really stayed with me in an incredibly profound way.
Fantasy: Sabaa Tahir; Zoraida Cordova; Roseanne A. Brown; Nisha J. Tuli; Maya Motayne; Aiden Thomas.
Horror: Grady Hendrix; Rachel Harrison; E. Reyes; Tiffany D. Jackson; Chuck Tingle; Silvia Moreno Garcia.
Poetry: Ada Limón; Joan Kwon Glass; Danez Smith; Alicia Cook, Jose Hernandez Diaz; Ocean Vuong.
Sci-fi: Neal Shusterman; Octavia Butler; Matt Haig; V.E. Schwab; Drew Magary.
Classics: Toni Morrison; Ana Castillo; Oscar Wilde; Mary Shelley; Zora Neale Hurston; Charlotte Brontë.
Nonfiction: Queer Brown Voices: Latino/a LGBT Activism; Women, Race, and Class (Angela Y. Davis); The Politics of Trauma (Staci Haines); Beyond Beautiful (Anuschka Rees); Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution.
Author Luna Moore Latorre 