The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean

Second paragraph of third chapter:

Some humans had sexual fantasies in their nightly visions, or nightmares about going to job interviews naked. Her dream was neither, though it had elements of both.

Hugo voting has closed now, and anyway this wasn’t directly a finalist though it was in the Voter Pack as supporting material for the author’s presence on the Astounding Award ballot. I hugely enjoyed it – a story of a vampiric race in today’s Britain, who survive by eating books and brains, and where one plucky young woman plans to overturn the whole order of her repressive society and get to grips with the outside world. Tremendous internal politics and imagination. Great stuff. You can get it here.