Hugo and Nebula List (Have Read)

I'm a big fan of sci-fi. I've been reading sci-fi books since I was a wee lad. A few years ago I was having trouble getting interested in new books. Nothing seemed to pique my interest. While contemplating re-reading my favorite book, Ender's Game, for the gazillionth time I again noticed the little blurbs on the cover: "HUGO WINNER" and "NEBULA WINNER."



Instead of going back with Ender to battle school I googled "Hugo Award Winners" and "Nebula Award Winners" and came up with quite a list of books. I noticed I had already read many of them. And then I hatched a plan. I would read ALL of the Hugo and Nebula winners. Okay, so since then I've weeded out quite a few, and I've added in some of the novellas, novelettes and short stories.

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. To vote you must be a member of the World Science Fiction Convention.

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year.

What follows is the list of books I've read on both lists. The list starts with Hugos, if a title has an asterisk it is also on the Nebula list, but I didn't relist it with the Nebula winners. Many on the list were not winners, but only nominees, but I've included them as being worthy too. Those in bold are my favorites.

HUGOS

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

*Dune by Frank Herbert

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

*The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

*Ringworld by Larry Niven

Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey

*Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

*The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

*“The Bicentennial Man” by Isaac Asimov

“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card (short story)

The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

*“Mikal’s Songbird” by Orson Scott Card

“Unaccompanied Sonata” by Orson Scott Card

The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven

Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh

*Startide Rising by David Brin

*Neuromancer by William Gibson

*Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (the BEST)

*The Postman by David Brin (I read this one in a day)

“Green Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson

“The Fringe” by Orson Scott Card

*Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

*“Hatrack River” by Orson Scott Card

*“Robot Dreams” by Isaac Asimov

*The Uplift War by David Brin

*When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

“Eye for Eye” by Orson Scott Card

*Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

“Dogwalker” by Orson Scott Card

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

*A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

*Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

*Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

*Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

*American Gods by Neil Gaiman

*Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

*The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

NEBULA

The Star Fox by Poul Anderson

"Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

"Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card

"The Way Station" by Stephen King

"Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson

"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson

Schmatrix by Bruce Sterling

"The Fringe" by Orson Scott Card

"Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card