My ongoing reading 'project': read every book which has ever won the Hugo award for best novel. I hope to maintain the list of read/unread by updating this post as I go along; as of now I have read 17, 6 of those this year. I know some of these books may be difficult to get hold of (in particular I know The Forever Machine, which has the reputation of being easily the worst book ever to win a Hugo, is). Hopefully more will be available second hand, or for the borrowing.
Unread:
- 2007 Vernor Vinge Rainbows End
- 2006 Robert Charles Wilson Spin
- 2004 Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin of Souls
- 2003 Robert J. Sawyer Hominids
- 2000 Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
- 1995 Lois McMaster Bujold Mirror Dance
- 1993 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep
- 1993 Connie Willis Doomsday Book
- 1992 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar
- 1991 Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game
- 1990 Dan Simmons Hyperion
- 1989 C.J. Cherryh Cyteen
- 1987 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead
- 1986 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
- 1982 C.J. Cherryh Downbelow Station
- 1981 Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
- 1979 Vonda N. McIntyre Dreamsnake
- 1978 Frederik Pohl Gateway
- 1977 Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- 1975 Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
- 1974 Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama
- 1973 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves
- 1972 Philip José Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- 1970 Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
- 1969 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
- 1968 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
- 1967 Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- 1966 Roger Zelazny This Immortal
- 1965 Fritz Leiber The Wanderer
- 1964 Clifford D. Simak Way Station
- 1962 Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
- 1961 Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz
- 1960 Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
- 1959 James Blish A Case of Conscience
- 1958 Fritz Leiber The Big Time
- 1956 Robert A. Heinlein Double Star
- 1955 Mark Clifton & Frank Riley The Forever Machine
- 1953 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
- 1951 Robert A. Heinlein Farmer in the Sky (retro)
Read:
- 2005 Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 2002 Neil Gaiman American Gods
- 2001 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 1999 Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
- 1998 Joe Haldeman Forever Peace
- 1997 Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars
- 1996 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
- 1994 Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars
- 1988 David Brin The Uplift War
- 1985 William Gibson Neuromancer
- 1984 David Brin Startide Rising
- 1983 Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
- 1980 Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
- 1976 Joe Haldeman The Forever War
- 1971 Larry Niven Ringworld
- 1966 Frank Herbert Dune
- 1963 Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
- 1954 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (retro)
- 1946 Isaac Asimov The Mule (retro)