I haven’t read anything close to everything that came out this summer–I haven’t even read everything I personally have downloaded to my Kindle this summer–but here’s what I’ve liked so far. Please feel free to chime in with recommendations in the comments.
Gilded, Elizabeth Acevedo (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
Doorway, Smile, Kiss, Fox, Jeremy Packert Burke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
An Incomplete Account of the Case of the Bird-Talker of Yaros, Eleanna Castroianni
All the Time in the World, Charlotte Nicole Davis (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
The Inaccessibility of Heaven, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)
A Voyage to Queensthroat, Anya Johanna Deniro (Strange Horizons)
Exile’s End, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor.com)
The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly, Alix E. Harrow (Fireside)
Saltwashed, Jennifer Mace (Uncanny)
Yellow and the Perception of Reality, Maureen McHugh (Tor.com)
The Necessary Arthur, Garth Nix (Tor.com)
Wherein Abigail Fields Recalls Her First Death and, Subsequently, Her Best Life, Rebecca Roanhorse (A Phoenix First Must Burn)
We’re Here, We’re Here, K.M. Szpara (Tor.com)
Open House on Haunted Hill, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots)