Kristenelle - SFF Reader | 2020 Best and Worst Non-Award-Eligible Books @KristenelleSFFReader | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
I discuss my least and most favorite books I read in 2020 that were not eligible for awards this year. Most of them actually did win awards the year they were published though.
Books mentioned:
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
The Outside - Ada Hoffman
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. LeGuin
Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
I discuss my least and most favorite books I read in 2020 that were not eligible for awards this year. Most of them actually did win awards the year they were published though.
Books mentioned:
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
The Outside - Ada Hoffman
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. LeGuin
Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo