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My limiting factor here is I have to have read the book. Folks are welcome to recommend more books, following that same rule.
The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. One of the most original sff books I've read in the last couple of years. First of a trilogy. Second one's on my shelf.
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord. Her other books are also on my shelf. I expect to be recommending them as well.
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj. Grab it and read it. I'm not just saying this because I spotted a Tuckerization of an amazing woman I knew (and I've no idea how many Tuckerizations I may have missed.)
Babel-17 by Samuel Delany. (There's a lot of Delany I've not yet read. I fell hard for this one.)
A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney. I know the second one is out.
Prey of the Gods by Nicky Draden is amazing and also one of the most original sff books I've read recently. Temper is even better.
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle is in dialogue with one of Lovecraft's more racist short stories -- and I mean more racist for Lovecraft. The Changeling had me early on and then again with the sequence that made a trip from one subway stop to another mythic.
Pet by Akwaeke. About as gentle a way to talk about abuse and what a community does not want to think about as I've seen.
And, if you're open to works in translation, there's The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas. Dumas rocks.
The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. One of the most original sff books I've read in the last couple of years. First of a trilogy. Second one's on my shelf.
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord. Her other books are also on my shelf. I expect to be recommending them as well.
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj. Grab it and read it. I'm not just saying this because I spotted a Tuckerization of an amazing woman I knew (and I've no idea how many Tuckerizations I may have missed.)
Babel-17 by Samuel Delany. (There's a lot of Delany I've not yet read. I fell hard for this one.)
A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney. I know the second one is out.
Prey of the Gods by Nicky Draden is amazing and also one of the most original sff books I've read recently. Temper is even better.
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle is in dialogue with one of Lovecraft's more racist short stories -- and I mean more racist for Lovecraft. The Changeling had me early on and then again with the sequence that made a trip from one subway stop to another mythic.
Pet by Akwaeke. About as gentle a way to talk about abuse and what a community does not want to think about as I've seen.
And, if you're open to works in translation, there's The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas. Dumas rocks.
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Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor. It's not a gentle book but it's a damn good one.
For kids, Zahrah the Windseeker also by Nnedi Okorafor: when I was a kid their was tonnes of fantasy written for kids but very little science fiction. This is an excellent science fiction kids book.
I've only read the first book (100,000 Kingdoms), but N K Jemisin's Broken Earth Triology.
The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson. YA (although most of her other books are not, I've also read The New Moon's Arms which I also recommend). I have a soft spot for the Toronto-ish setting, lots of mixture of different myths and magic.
Shifting recs slightly more generally to books by authors of colour (as in your list above, Mary Anne Mohanraj is South Asian- specifically Sri Lankan):
Daniel Jose Older has two excellent urban fantasy series set in Brooklyn where the protagonists are almost all black and latino characters: The Bone Street Rumba series and the Shadow Shaper series.
This is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone) - epistolary spy vs spy and really quite fun. It's a romp but with depth and feeling.
I mostly know him for short stories, but pretty much anything by Ted Chiang.
And being a sucker for for Toronto-set books again, The Queen of the Dead series by Michelle Sagara, which I originally picked up because of Seanan's rec of the first book (https://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/442238.html)
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Who Fears Death -- I've also read Akata Witch and I need to read the next of those. And I'd forgotten the Binti novellas. I've read all three, but there's a short story in the sequence I need to read. I haven't read Zarah the Windseer.
I've read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but not the other two, and I've read The Broken Earth. I have The Obelisk Gate to hand.
I've read Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, and Midnight Robber, which is excellent discomfort reading.
Agree re anything by Ted Chiang.
I've read This Is How You Lose the Time War.
I read the first Shadowshaper book and just finished The Book of Lost Saints, which is very good and hits hard just now.