Hugo Award Challenge
A few years ago, I went mad and decided to take my hobby of reading Science Fiction to the next level. I set myself the challenge of reading all the Hugo Award winning novels that have been published since the award inception in 1953. To complicate things further I decided to write an article on each of the books that I read. At first I was confident that I would easily be able to knock out the 70 or so books in a year or two but somewhere around the deserts of Arrakis (Dune, 1966 Hugo Award Winner) I knew that this wasn’t going to be easy.
To date I have read 35 of the Hugo Award Winner and I might have read or I just don’t remember a further 10. For example, I am sure I have read Fahrenheit 451 in 7th grade but I really don’t remember much from the 7th grade.
| Year | Author | Title | Status |
| 1939 (Retro) | T. H. White | The Sword in the Stone | Not Read |
| 1941 (Retro) | A. E. van Vogt | Slan | Not Read |
| 1946 (Retro) | Isaac Asimov | The Mule | Maybe |
| 1951 (Retro) | Robert A. Heinlein | Farmer in the Sky | Not Read |
| 1953 | Alfred Bester | The Demolished Man | Maybe |
| 1954 | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | Maybe |
| 1955 | Mark Clifton | They'd Rather Be Right (also known as The Forever Machine) | Not Read |
| 1956 | Robert A. Heinlein | Double Star | Read |
| 1958 | Fritz Leiber | The Big Time | Not Read |
| 1959 | James Blish | A Case of Conscience | Maybe |
| 1960 | Robert A. Heinlein | Starship Troopers | Read |
| 1961 | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Read |
| 1962 | Robert A. Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | Read |
| 1963 | Philip K. Dick | The Man in the High Castle | Read |
| 1964 | Clifford D. Simak | Here Gather the Stars (also known as Way Station) | Not Read |
| 1965 | Fritz Leiber | The Wanderer | Not Read |
| 1966 | Frank Herbert | Dune | Read |
| 1966 | Roger Zelazny | ...And Call Me Conrad (also known as This Immortal) | Not Read |
| 1967 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Read |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny | Lord of Light | Maybe |
| 1969 | John Brunner | Stand on Zanzibar | Maybe |
| 1970 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Maybe |
| 1971 | Larry Niven | Ringworld | Read |
| 1972 | Philip José Farmer | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Not Read |
| 1973 | Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves | Read |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama | Read |
| 1975 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dispossessed | Maybe |
| 1976 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | Read |
| 1977 | Kate Wilhelm | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Maybe |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Read |
| 1979 | Vonda N. McIntyre | Dreamsnake | Not Read |
| 1980 | Arthur C. Clarke | The Fountains of Paradise | Read |
| 1981 | Joan D. Vinge | The Snow Queen | Not Read |
| 1982 | C. J. Cherryh | Downbelow Station | Not Read |
| 1983 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation's Edge | Read |
| 1984 | David Brin | Startide Rising | Not Read |
| 1985 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Read |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card | Ender's Game | Read |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Not Read |
| 1988 | David Brin | The Uplift War | Not Read |
| 1989 | C. J. Cherryh | Cyteen | Not Read |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Read |
| 1991 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Vor Game | Read |
| 1992 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Barrayar | Read |
| 1993 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Read |
| 1993 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | Not Read |
| 1994 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Green Mars | Read |
| 1995 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Mirror Dance | Read |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | Read |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Blue Mars | Read |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Read |
| 1999 | Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Not Read |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | Read |
| 2001 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Read |
| 2002 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | Read |
| 2003 | Robert J. Sawyer | Hominids | Not Read |
| 2004 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Paladin of Souls | Not Read |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Not Read |
| 2006 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | Not Read |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | Rainbows End | Read |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Not Read |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | Read |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | Read |
| 2010 | China Miéville | The City & the City | Read |
| 2011 | Connie Willis | Blackout/All Clear | Not Read |
| 2012 | Jo Walton | Among Others | Not Read |
| 2013 | John Scalzi | Redshirts | Read |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Read |
| 2015 | Cixin Liu | The Three-Body Problem | Read |
| 2016 | N. K. Jemisin | The Fifth Season | Not Read |
| 2017 | N. K. Jemisin | The Obelisk Gate | Not Read |
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