{"id":23250,"date":"2020-01-03T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?page_id=23250"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:36:18","slug":"hugo-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/hugo-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2019 I decided to<\/a> work my way through reading all of the Best Novel Hugo Award winners (however long it takes), and am using this page to track my progress. While I started with the (then) most recent three winners, once I finished those, I went back to the beginning and am reading forward chronologically. I expect this will take a few years, as I will definitely be pausing to read each year\u2019s\u00a0Philip K. Dick Award<\/a>\u00a0nominees when they\u2019re announced in January or February, for several of the entries on this list I may well pause to read prior or later books in whatever series they come from, and sometimes I might just want to read something else entirely. This is a marathon, not a sprint.<\/p>\n

Once I\u2019ve read an entry for this project, I link to the title on Goodreads (through 2021) or The StoryGraph (starting in 2022).<\/p>\n

First book finished

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Key:
\n\u2713 = I read it at some point in the past, though I may not remember exactly when; I’m re-reading these as I go.
\n✅\u00a0= I\u2019ve read it for this project.
\n🥤🦆 = Milkshake duck<\/a>; not<\/em> re-reading.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u2713✅\u00a01939 (Retro) T. H. White:\u00a0The Sword in the Stone<\/cite>\u00a0(read as book one of\u00a0The Once and Future King<\/cite><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. ✅\u00a01941 (Retro) A. E. van Vogt:\u00a0Slan<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. ✅\u00a01943 (Retro) Robert A. Heinlein (as Anson MacDonald):\u00a0Beyond This Horizon<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. ✅\u00a01944 (Retro) Fritz Leiber: Conjure Wife<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. ✅ 1945 (Retro) Leigh Brackett: Shadow Over Mars<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  6. ✅\u00a01946 (Retro) Isaac Asimov:\u00a0The Mule<\/cite>\u00a0(read as part two of\u00a0Foundation and Empire<\/cite><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  7. ✅\u00a01951 (Retro) Robert A. Heinlein:\u00a0Farmer in the Sky<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  8. ✅\u00a01953 Alfred Bester:\u00a0The Demolished Man<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  9. \u2713✅ 1954 (Retro) Ray Bradbury:\u00a0Fahrenheit 451<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  10. ✅ 1955 Mark Clifton & Frank Riley:\u00a0They\u2019d Rather Be Right<\/cite>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0The Forever Machine<\/cite><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  11. ✅ 1956 Robert A. Heinlein:\u00a0Double Star<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  12. ✅ 1958 Fritz Leiber:\u00a0The Big Time<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  13. ✅ 1959 James Blish:\u00a0A Case of Conscience<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  14. \u2713✅ 1960 Robert A. Heinlein:\u00a0Starship Troopers<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  15. \u2713✅ 1961 Walter M. Miller, Jr.:\u00a0A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  16. \u2713✅ 1962 Robert A. Heinlein:\u00a0Stranger in a Strange Land<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  17. ✅ 1963 Philip K. Dick:\u00a0The Man in the High Castle<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  18. ✅ 1964 Clifford D. Simak:\u00a0Here Gather the Stars<\/cite>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0Way Station<\/cite><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  19. ✅ 1965 Fritz Leiber:\u00a0The Wanderer<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of 22 read in 2019; I started with N.K. Jemesin’s 2016-2018 winning Broken Earth<\/cite> trilogy)<\/li>\n
  20. \u2713✅ 1966 (1) Frank Herbert:\u00a0Dune<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  21. ✅ 1966 (2) Roger Zelazny:\u00a0\u2026And Call Me Conrad<\/cite>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0This Immortal<\/cite><\/a>)<\/li>\n
  22. ✅ 1967 Robert A. Heinlein:\u00a0The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  23. ✅ 1968 Roger Zelazny:\u00a0Lord of Light<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  24. ✅ 1969 John Brunner:\u00a0Stand on Zanzibar<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of five read in 2020)<\/li>\n
  25. ✅ 1970 Ursula K. Le Guin:\u00a0The Left Hand of Darkness<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  26. \u2713✅ 1971 Larry Niven:\u00a0Ringworld<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  27. ✅ 1972 Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer:\u00a0To Your Scattered Bodies Go<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  28. ✅ 1973 Isaac Asimov:\u00a0The Gods Themselves<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  29. \u2713✅ 1974 Arthur C. Clarke:\u00a0Rendezvous with Rama<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  30. ✅ 1975 Ursula K. Le Guin:\u00a0The Dispossessed<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  31. ✅ 1976 Joe Haldeman:\u00a0The Forever War<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  32. ✅ 1977 Kate Wilhelm:\u00a0Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of eight read in 2021)<\/li>\n
  33. ✅ 1978 Frederik Pohl:\u00a0Gateway<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  34. ✅ 1979 Vonda N. McIntyre: Dreamsnake<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  35. ✅ 1980 Arthur C. Clarke: The Fountains of Paradise<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  36. ✅ 1981 Joan D. Vinge:\u00a0The Snow Queen<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  37. ✅ 1982 C. J. Cherryh:\u00a0Downbelow Station<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  38. ✅ 1983 Isaac Asimov:\u00a0Foundation\u2019s Edge<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  39. \u2713✅ 1984 David Brin:\u00a0Startide Rising<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  40. \u2713✅ 1985 William Gibson:\u00a0Neuromancer<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of eight read in 2022)<\/li>\n
  41. \u2713✅ 1986 Orson Scott Card:\u00a0Ender\u2019s Game<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  42. \u2713✅ 1987 Orson Scott Card:\u00a0Speaker for the Dead<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  43. \u2713✅ 1988 David Brin:\u00a0The Uplift War<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  44. ✅ 1989 C. J. Cherryh:\u00a0Cyteen<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  45. \u2713✅ 1990 Dan Simmons:\u00a0Hyperion<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  46. ✅ 1991 Lois McMaster Bujold:\u00a0The Vor Game<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  47. ✅ 1992 Lois McMaster Bujold:\u00a0Barrayar<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  48. \u2713✅ 1993 (1) Vernor Vinge:\u00a0A Fire Upon the Deep<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  49. \u2713✅ 1993 (2) Connie Willis:\u00a0Doomsday Book<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of nine read in 2023)<\/li>\n
  50. \u2713✅ 1994 Kim Stanley Robinson:\u00a0Green Mars<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  51. ✅ 1995 Lois McMaster Bujold:\u00a0Mirror Dance<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  52. \u2713✅ 1996 Neal Stephenson:\u00a0The Diamond Age<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  53. ✅ 1997 Kim Stanley Robinson:\u00a0Blue Mars<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  54. ✅ 1998 Joe Haldeman:\u00a0Forever Peace<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  55. ✅ 1999 Connie Willis:\u00a0To Say Nothing of the Dog<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  56. ✅ 2000 Vernor Vinge:\u00a0A Deepness in the Sky<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  57. \u2713🥤🦆 2001 J. K. Rowling:\u00a0Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/cite><\/li>\n
  58. \u2713🥤🦆 2002 Neil Gaiman:\u00a0American Gods<\/cite>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of seven read and two skipped in 2024)<\/li>\n
  59. ✅ 2003 Robert J. Sawyer:\u00a0Hominids<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  60. ✅ 2004 Lois McMaster Bujold:\u00a0Paladin of Souls<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  61. ✅ 2005 Susanna Clarke:\u00a0Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell<\/cite><\/a>.
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> This was the last of four read in 2025; one of the four was 2021’s Network Effect<\/cite>.)<\/li>\n
  62. \u2713✅ 2006 Robert Charles Wilson:\u00a0Spin<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  63. ✅ 2007 Vernor Vinge:\u00a0Rainbows End<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  64. ✅ 2008 Michael Chabon:\u00a0The Yiddish Policemen\u2019s Union<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  65. \u2713🥤🦆 2009 Neil Gaiman:\u00a0The Graveyard Book<\/cite><\/li>\n
  66. ✅ 2010 (1) Paolo Bacigalupi:\u00a0The Windup Girl<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  67. ✅ 2010 (2) China Mi\u00e9ville:\u00a0The City & the City<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  68. 2011 Connie Willis:\u00a0Blackout\/All Clear<\/cite><\/li>\n
  69. 2012 Jo Walton:\u00a0Among Others<\/cite><\/li>\n
  70. \u2713 2013 John Scalzi:\u00a0Redshirts<\/cite><\/li>\n
  71. \u2713 2014 Ann Leckie:\u00a0Ancillary Justice<\/cite><\/li>\n
  72. 2015 Cixin Liu:\u00a0The Three-Body Problem<\/cite><\/li>\n
  73. ✅\u00a02016 N. K. Jemisin:\u00a0The Fifth Season<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  74. ✅\u00a02017 N. K. Jemisin:\u00a0The Obelisk Gate<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n
  75. ✅\u00a02018 N. K. Jemisin:\u00a0The Stone Sky<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> All three books in this series were read in 2019; when I started this project, they were the most recent winners, and any winners after this point were added after I started the project)<\/li>\n
  76. 2019 Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars<\/cite><\/li>\n
  77. 2020 Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire<\/cite><\/li>\n
  78. ✅ 2021 Martha Wells: Network Effect<\/cite><\/a>
    \n(NOTE:<\/strong> I read this one in 2025 while reading all of the Murderbot books before the 2025 Seattle Worldcon; at the time, I didn’t remember that it was also a Hugo Best Novel winner.) <\/li>\n
  79. 2022 Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace<\/cite><\/li>\n
  80. 2023 T. Kingfisher: Nettle & Bone<\/cite><\/li>\n
  81. 2024 Emily Tesh: Some Desperate Glory<\/cite><\/li>\n
  82. 2025 Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup<\/cite><\/li>\n
  83. 2026 Alix E. Harrow: The Everlasting<\/cite><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    List of winners originally sourced\u00a0from Wikipedia<\/a>, then updated annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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