What We've Read So Far...

I wasn't keeping good records when we first started. I do have a list of books, but not exactly when we read them. 

2015-2017 

1953 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man (Hugo winner)

1961 Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz (Hugo winner)

1962 Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land (Hugo winner)

1964 Clifford D. Simak Here Gather the Stars (aka Way Station) (Hugo winner)

1966 Frank Herbert Dune (Hugo winner)

1967 Robert A. Heinlein The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress  (Hugo winner)

1968 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light  (Hugo winner)

1985 William Gibson Neuromancer  (Hugo winner)

1970 Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness  (Hugo winner)

1970 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (Hugo nominee)

 1976 Joe Haldeman The Forever War  (Hugo winner)

1982 C. J. Cherryh Downbelow Station (Hugo winner)

2002 Neil Gaiman American Gods (Hugo winner)

2012 Jo Walton Among Others (Hugo winner)

2013 John Scalzi Redshirts  (Hugo winner)

2014 Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice (Hugo winner)

2015 Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem (Hugo winner)

Neil Stephenson Snow Crash 

Isaac Asimov Caves of Steel

 

2018 

1993 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars  (Hugo nominee)

1994 Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars (Hugo winner)

1997 Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars (Hugo winner)

1963 Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle (Hugo winner)

1986 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game (Hugo winner)

 

2019 

2016 Ann Leckie Ancillary Mercy (Hugo winner)

2010 Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl (Hugo winner)

2016 NK Jemisin The Fifth Season (Hugo winner)

2017 N. K. Jemisin The Obelisk Gate (Hugo winner)

2018 N. K. Jemisin The Stone Sky (Hugo winner)

1981 Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen (Hugo winner)

1992 Joan D. Vinge The Summer Queen  (Hugo nominee)

2011 Connie Willis Blackout (Hugo winner)

 

2020 

1973 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves (Hugo winner)

2011 Connie Willis All Clear (Hugo winner)

2018 John Scalzi The Collapsing Empire (Hugo nominee)

1999 Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog (Hugo winner)

1993 Connie Willis Domesday Book (Hugo winner)

1991 Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game (Hugo winner)

1959 James Blish A Case of Conscience (Hugo winner)

1996 Neil Stephenson The Diamond Age (Hugo winner)

 

2021 

1955 Mark Clifton*/Frank Riley* They'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine) 

1959 Robert A. Heinlein Have Space Suit — Will Travel 

2021 N.K. Jemisin The City We Became 

2021 Susanna Clarke Piranesi 

2019 Mary Robinette Kowal The Calculating Stars 

2021 Mary Robinette Kowal The Relentless Moon

2021 Rebecca Roanhorse Black Sun 

 

2022 

2003 David Brin Kiln People (also known as Kil'n People) 

2018 Mur Lafferty Six Wakes

1998 Joe Haldeman Forever Peace

2020 Arkady Martine A Memory Called Empire 

2022 Arkady Martine A Desolation Called Peace 

2012 James S.A. Corey  Leviathan Wakes 

 

2023

2017 Yoon Ha Lee Ninefox Gambit

2019 Catherine M. Valente Space Opera

2022 Ryka Aoki Light from Uncommon Stars

Rebecca Roanhorse Fevered Star 

N.K. Jemisin The World We Make 

2023 T. Kingfisher Nettle and Bone

2020 Alix E. Harrow The Ten Thousand Doors of January (finished in 2024)

 

2024 

2019 Rebecca Roanhorse Trail of Lightning

2020 Tamsyn Muir Gideon the Ninth

2023 Scalzi Kaiju Preservation Society

2024 The Saint of Bright Doors


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