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Sable Aradia
Posted 2016-10-01 10:34 AM (#14371 - in reply to #14359)
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Well, I currently have the 27 book option selected, but I don't actually expect to do it. That's just because I don't know which of the books I'm considering reading for the challenge will be the ones I read first (of the ones I haven't yet) so I'm just keeping my options open. I will likely dial it back to the 12 book option. But thus far this year I have read:

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (1966 Nebula)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (1999 Locus)
Gateway by Frederick Pohl (1977 Nebula, 1978 Hugo, Campbell and Locus)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1987 Clarke)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1968 Hugo)
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Helnlein (1960 Hugo)
Updraft by Fran Wilde (2016 Norton)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2015 Nebula, 2016 Holdstock, Locus, and Mythopoetic)

Most of these I read because I look for award-winning crossovers for other challenges I'm doing; some I read because they came up in reading order for the SF Masterworks challenge/book club that I'm doing. I know for a fact I'll be reading three more by the end of the year because they're coming up on the SF Masterworks list:

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1953 Hugo; the first ever, I think)
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969 BSFA and Hugo)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (1974 Nebula, 1975 Hugo and Locus)

So really, I only have to come up with one more. And I intend to read A Song of Ice and Fire before the year is out, so . . .

Having re-examined my list (because I read the description properly) I found that I'd ended up with a lot of books that were eligible for the Second Best challenge, so I joined that one too. Again, I don't expect to finish it really, but we'll see.

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