Here is a list of the recs I picked up from various panels I attended at Worldcon. (These are likely not complete, but they're the ones that I wrote down.)
In Defense of the Unlikeable Heroine:
- We Who Are About To - Joanna Russ
Non-Binary Representation In Fiction:
- Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction - ed K M Szpara (anthology)
- The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang (forthcoming in Sept)
- Provenance - Ann Leckie (forthcoming, but read some on her website)
- Jacob's Ladder - Elizabeth Bear
- River of Teeth - Sarah Gailey
- Pantomime - Laura Lam
- Killing Gravity - Corey J White
- Interactive fiction Craft phone games (Choice of Deathless/City's Thirst) - Max Gladstone (you can play an nb character)
- "Masculinity is an Anxiety Disorder" (essay) - David J Schwartz
- Rose Lemberg
- Foz Meadows
- A Merc Rustad
(This one should be complete as I moderated the panel and made a point of writing them down to tweet afterwards.)
- Two Faces of Tomorrow - James P Hogan
- Culture series - Iain M Banks
- Dragonlance
- Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer
- The Postman - David Brin
- A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed And Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
- Hospital Station - James White
- Malhutan Chronicles - Tom D Wright (panelist)
- Orbital Cloud - Taiyo Fuji (panelist)
- The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
- All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye - Christopher Brookmyre
- Blood Songs series - Anthony Ryan
- Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon
- Barbara Hambly
Also, Catherine Lundoff keeps a bibliography of books with older women protagonists.
Colonialism and the Space Opera:
- Praxis - John Williams
Moving Beyond Orientalism in SFF:
- Black Wolves - Kate Elliot
- Vixen and The Waves - Hoa Pham
- Isabelle Yap
- Ken Liu
- Stephanie Lai
- Zen Cho
(Plus one from Nine Worlds in which the MC has Borderline Personality Disorder: Borderline - Mishell Baker)