For a while in grad school I used the list of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards to guide my book choices, but I’ve finally read everything on it. Aside from recommendations from a few friends (esp. on GoodReads), I get very little input, since I rarely find time to read reviews or browse in bookstores very often. But I still have enough of a backlog to merit making a list (inspired in large part by this one, since it featured a few personal favorites such as The Stars My Destination), so here we go:

• Dealing with Dragons  – Patricia C. Wrede
• Little, Big – John Crowley
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
• Among Others – Jo Walton
• Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson
• The Female Man – Joanna Russ
• Zone One – Colson Whitehead
• The City & The City – China Miéville
• Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
• Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delaney
• Ubik – Philip K. Dick