I haven’t read many of those and reviewed even less; if a review is available, I’ve linked it in the fiction title. Column “review” has four values:
- n – read it but didn’t review it
- y – review is here on the blog, link in the title
- GR – review is over at GoodReads (too lazy to copy it over to the blog), link in the title
- (empty) – didn’t read it
| Year | Title | Author | review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | |
| 2019 | The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | y |
| 2018 | The Stone Sky | N.K. Jemisin | y |
| 2017 | The Obelisk Gate | N.K. Jemisin | n |
| 2016 | The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | y |
| 2015 | Liu Cixin | The Three Body Problem | y |
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | y |
| 2013 | Redshirts | John Scalzi | GR |
| 2012 | Among Others | Jo Walton | y |
| 2011 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | n |
| 2010 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | n |
| (tie) | The City & the City | China Mieville | y |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | GR |
| 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Michael Chabon | GR |
| 2007 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | n |
| 2006 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | GR |
| 2005 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | n |
| 2004 | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold | n |
| 2003 | Hominids | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 2002 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | n |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | n |
| 2000 | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | n |
| 1999 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | |
| 1998 | Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | GR |
| 1997 | Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 1996 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | n |
| 1995 | Mirror Dance | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 1994 | Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | n |
| 1993 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | GR |
| (tie) | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | GR |
| 1992 | Barrayar | Lois McMaster Bujold | GR |
| 1991 | The Vor Game | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 1990 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | y |
| 1989 | Cyteen | C. J. Cherryh | y |
| 1988 | The Uplift War | David Brin | |
| 1987 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1986 | Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1985 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
| 1984 | Startide Rising | David Brin | GR |
| 1983 | Foundation’s Edge | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1982 | Downbelow Station | C. J. Cherryh | y |
| 1981 | The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge | y |
| 1980 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | n |
| 1979 | Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | |
| 1978 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | y |
| 1977 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | y |
| 1976 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | y |
| 1975 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | y |
| 1974 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | y |
| 1973 | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1972 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip Jos‚ Farmer | |
| 1971 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | |
| 1970 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | n |
| 1969 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | n |
| 1968 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1967 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | y |
| 1966 | …And Call Me Conrad (This Immortal) | Roger Zelazny | |
| (tie) | Dune | Frank Herbert | n |
| 1965 | The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber | |
| 1964 | Here Gather the Stars (Way Station) | Clifford D. Simak | |
| 1963 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | y |
| 1962 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | GR |
| 1961 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller | y |
| 1960 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | GR |
| 1959 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | |
| 1958 | The Big Time | Fritz Leiber | |
| 1956 | Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 1955 | They’d Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine) | Mark Clifton & Frank Riley | |
| 1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | y |
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