Kristenelle - SFF Reader | 2021 Award Eligible Novellas Ranked (I've read 22!) @KristenelleSFFReader | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
I rank 22 novellas that are eligible for the Hugo/Nebula/Locus/etc. awards this year.

Books mentioned (in no particular order):
The Seep - Chana Porter
Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey
Ring Shout - P. Djeli Clark
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho
No Man's Land - A. J. Fitzwater
Burning Roses - S. L. Huang
Moontangled - Stephanie Burgis
Seven of Infinities - Aliette de Bodard
Prosper's Demon - K. J. Parker
Firewalkers - Adrian Tchaikovsky
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain - Nghi Vo
The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo
Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murders - Aliette de Bodard
The A.I. Who Loved Me - Alyssa Cole
The Tower of Mud and Straw - Yaroslav Barsukov
Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
The Four Profound Weaves - R. B. Lemberg
The Stone Wētā - Octavia Cade
Finna - Nino Cipri
Riot Baby - Tochi Onyebuchi
Take a Look at the Five and Ten - Connie Willis
Stone and Steel - Eboni Dunbar
Flyaway - Kathleen Jennings
Sea Change - Nancy Kress

You can read/listen to "Tower of Mud and Straw" here: magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/tower-of-mud-and-straw-i-yaroslav-barsukov

Check out That's So Poe (here is her review of "The Stone Wētā): youtube.com/watch?v=_PdfNWpinFM&t=3s