My 2022 reading resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones.
I didn’t read nearly as many books in February as I did in January. Part of that might have been enthusiasm for the resolution waning a bit, but a good chunk of it was due to the fact that my grandmother passed away, and we took off a week for the funeral. Also, potty training completely upended our daily routine. I also went ahead and finished Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, after reading Annihilation, so that took off a lot of reading time that otherwise would have gone toward this goal.
But I’m not too worried about it, since I’m already well past the halfway point and should be able to finish before the end of the year. In fact, I went ahead and made a similar spreadsheet of all the short stories, novelettes, and novellas that won a Hugo/Nebula, and may move on to those after I finish the novels. It’s going to be a lot more challenging to hunt down all of those titles, though, so I might just move on to the Dragon Awards instead.
In any case, here are all the Hugo/Nebula award-winning novels that I read or DNFed in February:
Books that I read and plan to / have already acquired:
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu, trans. (2015 Hugo)
Books that I read and don’t plan to acquire:
- Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1944 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2019)
Books that I did not finish:
- This Immortal by Roger Zelazny (1966 Hugo)
- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (1967 Nebula)
- The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1990 Nebula)
- Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick (1992 Nebula)
- Slan by A.E. Van Vogt (1941 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2016)
