If science fiction/fantasy is not for you, it's not for you. But if you liked the idea but gave up on it because it was the province of straight white men, let me recommend you take another look: the Hugo and Nebula award candidates are full of amazing stuff like N. K. Jemisin's Stone Sky series, Yoon-Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire, Aliette de Bodard's The Tea Master and the Detective, and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver.
@anne oh also I should mention The Stone Sky is one of the books in the series; the series itself is called The Broken Earth
@Felthry Oh, good catch! Quite right. The whole series is amazing.
@Felthry The Inheritance trilogy is lovely too! And check out other people's recommendations in this thread - there are, encouragingly, too many great books by interesting people for me to list all of them.