Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

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Earthsea Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin - Q3-2018
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu - NW
***Tales from Earthsea - short stories
***The Other Wind - NN
***The Daughter of Odren - novella
***The Word of Unbinding: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) - short story
***The Rule of Names - short story
***Firelight - short story, originally published posthumously in The Paris Review

2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke - Q4-2018
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010 Odyssey II - HN

Newsflesh - Mira Grant - Oct-Nov-2018 Monthly Reads
Feed - HN
Deadline - HN
Blackout - HN

Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert - Q1-2019
Dune - HW, NW
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune

Imperial Radch - Ann Leckie - Q2-2019
Ancillary Justice - HW, NW
Ancillary Sword - HN, NN
Ancillary Mercy - HN, NN

Earth Day (read one) - Apr-May 2019
The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch - NN
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny - HW
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm - NN

Remembrance of Earth's Past - Liu Cixin - Jun-Aug 2019
The Three-Body Problem - HW, NN
The Dark Forest
Death's End - HN

Author's Birthday - Aug-Sep 2019
Aug: Time Is the Simplest Thing by Clifford D. Simak - HN
Sep: Embassytown by China Miéville - HN, NN
Oct: Day of the Minotaur by Thomas Burnett Swann - HN

Sprawl - William Gibson - Jun-Aug 2019
***Burning Chrome
Neuromancer - HW, NW
Count Zero - HN, NN
Mona Lisa Overdrive - HN, NN

Earth - N.K. Jemisin - Apr-May 2020 - trilogy completion
The Obelisk Gate - HW, NN
The Stone Sky - HW, NW

The Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold - Jan-Sep 2020

The Expanse - James S.A. Corey - Apr-Dec 2020 - HW for Best Series
***Drive - short story
***The Butcher of Anderson Station - short story
Leviathan Wakes - HN
Caliban's War
***Gods of Risk - novella
Abaddon's Gate
***The Churn - novella
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
***The Vital Abyss - novella
Babylon's Ashes
***Strange Dogs - novella
Persepolis Rising
***Auberon - novella
Tiamat's Wrath
Leviathan Falls
***The Sins of Our Fathers - novella

New Crobuzon - China Miéville - Sep-Dec 2020
Perdido Street Station - HN, NN
The Scar - HN
Iron Council - HN

Saturn's Children - Charles Stross - Feb 2021
Saturn's Children - HN
Neptune's Brood - HN

The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan - Aug 2021 - Oct 2023 - HW for Best Series

Earthseed - Octavia Butler - Jan-Feb 2022
Parable of the Sower - NN
Parable of the Talents - NW

Pern - Anne McCaffrey - Sep-Nov 2022 - HW for Best Series
Dragonflight - original novella HW
Dragonquest - HN
The White Dragon - HN

Old Man's War - John Scalzi - Jan-May 2023
Old Man's War - HN
***Questions for a Soldier - short story
The Ghost Brigades
***The Sagan Diary - novella
The Last Colony - HN
Zoe's Tale - HN
***After the Coup - novella
The Human Division
The End of All Things

The Inheritance Trilogy - Jemisin N.K. - Mar-Jun 2023
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - HN, NN
The Broken Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods - NN

The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons - Oct 2023-Jul 2024
Hyperion - HW
The Fall of Hyperion - HN, NN
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion - HN

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers - May-Aug 2025
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit - HN
Record of a Spaceborn Few - HN
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - HN

Heinlein's Juveniles - Nov 2025-May 2026
Rocket Ship Galileo
Space Cadet
Red Planet
Farmer in the Sky - RHN
Between Planets
The Rolling Stones
The Star Beast
Tunnel in the Sky
Time for the Stars
Citizen of the Galaxy
Have Space Suit—Will Travel - HN
Starship Troopers
Podkayne of Mars

Helliconia - Brian W. Aldiss - Jan-Mar 2026
Helliconia Spring - NN
Helliconia Summer
Hellconia Winter - NN

The Laundry Files - Charles Stross - Jan 2026-Mar 2027
The Atrocity Archives
The Concrete Jungle - novella
The Jennifer Morgue
Down on the Farm - short story
Equoid - novella
The Fuller Memorandum
Overtime - novelette
The Apocalypse Codex
A Conventional Boy
The Rhesus Chart
The Annihilation Score
Escape from Yokai Land - novella
The Nightmare Stacks
The Delirium Brief
The Labyrinth Index
The Regicide Report
Dead Lies Dreaming
Quantum of Nightmares
Season of Skulls

Alex Benedict - Jack McDevitt - Jul-Dec 2026
A Talent for War
Polaris - NN
Seeker - NW
The Devil's Eye
Echo - NN
Firebird - NN

Since we incorporated series challenges into our monthly books, I've updated this list of challenges to include series we've read as monthly books as well as separate challenges.

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