Sci-fi books Meme

[bearshorty]

Taking this meme from hamsterwoman. For many years now, I have been working though the novels that won a Hugo list, reading five a year. So a lot of books on the list are Hugo winning books or by Hugo winning authors so that certainly elevated my tally.

Boldface: the ones I've read.
Italic: I've read other stuff by the same writer, just not this text.


The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal - meh
Redshirts, by John Scalzi
Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Ten Percent Thief, by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson - I read "Diamond Age"
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
Contact, by Carl Sagan - I don't remember if I read it long time ago.
Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak
Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill
What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
The Book of Phoenix, by Nnedi Okorafor
Semiosis, by Sue Burke
Excession, by Iain M. Banks - I read Wasp Factory.
The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny I read This Immortal.
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Resisters, by Gish Jen
Rosewater, by Tade Thompson
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess I seem to remember reading this a long time ago but I'm not 100% sure.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein - I read a bunch of Heinlein
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle - really disliked this book, mostly for the religious stuff
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester I read The Demolished Man
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir I read the Martian
Zone One, by Colson Whitehead
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers I read a novella by her, meh
Engine Summer, by John Crowley
The Children of Men, by P.D. James - I think I might have read this but I'm not 100% sure
Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
The City & The City, by China Miéville
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
The Stand, by Stephen King I read a lot of other King books when I was a kid
In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany I read Triton
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami I read Norwegian Wood
Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith I read Hild
Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood I read The handmaid's Tale and the Testaments
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Shikasta, by Doris Lessing - I didn't like this
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut -I read a few of his books
Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke - I read a couple of his books
The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov - not 100% sure since I read a lot of Asimov as a teenager, so much. My favorite books are his autobiographies and his short stories but I read a lot and I think I read this.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Employees, by Olga Ravn
1984, by George Orwell
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick I read Man in the High Castle
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Kindred, by Octavia Butler - I think I expected more out of it
The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Dune, by Frank Herbert - I didn't not like this book
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley - I read it twice, in high school and in college

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess I seem to remember reading this a long time ago but I'm not 100% sure. -- I feel like you would remember "nadsat", the weird Russian-based teen language (which was my favorite thing about the book) -- unless the reason you can't remember is that you've either read it or watched the movie. (I haven't watched the movie, so I don't know whether it also does the language thing.)

[bearshorty]

I watched the movie but I also seem to remember reading the book maybe 20 years ago. But because I watched the movie, I'm not that sure that where my memories are coming from. Like I'm pretty sure I read "Children of Men" book but I also watched the movie so I can't tell. But I think I did because of the differences with the movie. Anyway, I think I read the Clockwork Orange book but there is no way to be sure!

[zvezda9]

Wow... I read a lot, but I don't think I've read more than 3 of these. I haven't even heard of the vast majority.

[atlantisburning]

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

I DNF'd the audiobook. The narrator was fine, but the story just dragged on and I felt zero things about any of the characters. I enjoyed her two novellas well enough so I was hoping for even more enjoyment from this particular series and yeah, just couldn't get into it.

Highly recommend Project Hail Mary if you get the chance to read it. And Artemis. All of his stuff is fantastic, and with PHM being turned into a movie, I'm extra hyped up about that one.

[christinafairy]

Like Chanele, I have barely heard of any of these books!

I honestly can't remember if I have read IQ84. I have read every other Murakami book though. We own all of his books and I bought all of IQ84 for Daniel years ago and I think I meant to also read it but I didn't?