Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

In February, we'll be reading the second book of The Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter.

The theme for our second book in February will be One-Hit Wonders, books that are the only nominations for those authors. Here's the applicable shelf to draw from:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Remember that books must meet the following criteria:
- Must be a Hugo or Nebula nominee
- Must be a book we haven't read as a group before. The bookshelves are segregated into "Read" and "Not Read" for this purpose.
- It may be the first of a series, but not a later book in the series.

My OHW nominee is King's Dragon by Kate Elliott

How about A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark? I hear these books are really good but I have not read anything by this author.

But I bet many of you have already read this. Oh, well, maybe it can win in Biggest Losers next fall

A Master of Djinn isn't eligible yet based on our "none from the last five years" rule.

OHW nominee: Mishell Baker Borderline.

The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper. I think I nominated this fairly recently under some other category.

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

Lala wrote: "Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed"

Awesome, would read!

Kateblue wrote: "How about A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark? I hear these books are really good but I have not read anything by this author.

But I bet many of you have already..."

I'm sorry, I thought I checked that

So far we have:
King's Dragon
The Road to Corlay
Borderline
Throne of the Crescent Moon

The poll is up!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...

Close poll. Two books tied at 10 votes, the other two at 7.

A close poll that opened up at the end! The winner is King's Dragon by Kate Elliott.

Awesome! I just got the audiobook via libro.fm credit, and I've got a paper copy, so I'm all set to tackle this doorstopper.