Thanks for this. I read a huge amount of mostly SF, with some fantasy, and there are quite a number here (most of them) that I'm not familiar with, so I'm happy to have things to add to my reading list.
In the SF novel category, the only one I've read is Service Model, which I thought was excellent. A couple of the others are already on my to-read list.
In the fantasy novel category, the only one I've read is the winner, A Sorceress Come to Call (which I finished yesterday), and I really liked it as well.
Some of the others are ones I've looked up, but aren't my thing (for instance, I don't generally enjoy alternate histories, and it bugs me that they're considered SF).
But several of the nominees look interesting. Looks like I've got more reading to do!
Yeah, I get it, it just feels very different to me. And, of course, as with all things, the line is blurry anyway. For instance, Orson Scott Card wrote an alternate history where the change is that American folk magic actually works, which seems pretty explicitly fantasy. It's similar to the way it's pretty hard to clearly differentiate between SF and fantasy. I get it, it's just annoying.