2023 Hugos -- eligible works -- lists

Works published in 2022 are eligible for the Hugo and Lodestar Awards in 2023.

Read or heard of something good or interesting? Add it to the list.
Going to nominate a particular work? Add it to the list.
Use "Explain your choice" however you like.

Please, thumbs down only for eligibility, and then explain why.

List of 2022 NOVELS eligible for the 2023 Hugos
List of 2022 NOVELLAS eligible for the 2023 Hugos
List of 2022 NOVLETTES eligible for the 2023 Hugos
List of 2022 GRAPHIC STORIES eligible for the 2023 Hugos
List of 2022 RELATED WORKS eligible for the 2023 Hugos
List of 2022 YA NOVELS eligible for the 2023 Lodestar Award (not a Hugo)

I haven't checked for any short stories on LT yet. If you know of any, please feel free to start a list and post a link here.

Your Novels link goes to the Novellas list
https://www.librarything.com/list/43540/all/2023-Hugo-Awards-Eligible-Works-Nove...

Thanks for setting the rest of these up!

>3 Aquila: THanks! Fixed now.

I only set up the four smaller categories. Thanks to whoever set up the Novels & Novellas lists, back in March.

>1 karenb: Thanks for that!

So, um, would people be wiling to talk about books they've read that were first published in 2022 here, whether or not they think they are sufficiently award worthy to be nominated for a Hugo, or is that too frivolous for this thread and I should start a new one.

(I personally read hardly anything in 2022, alas! I'm curious about the "state of the industry" as they say.)

What, discuss BOOKS on a BOOK SITE?!?!!!! A novel idea.

I'll say that Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang is a brilliant book and definitely one of the best books I've read this year.

(Sticking with this thread for now, but starting a new one is also an option!)

>6 LShelby: Bring it on! I'm always looking for recommendations of recently published books.

>7 karenb:

Babel is very good. I felt it fell off a little towards the end.

Beyond The Burn Line by Paul McAuley is very good too.

Eversion and The This (after a difficult start) I thought were good too.

I thought The mountain in the sea by Ray Nayler was very good. It's his first novel, although he's been publishing short stories for a few years.

Has anyone read The employees by Olga Ravn? I've requested this at the library.

>10 markon: Got a copy of the Ravn on the TBR pile. Saw it in my local Waterstones and it stood out on the SF shelves because it wasn't the normal format of paperback SF we get here in the UK. It was probably waiting just for me to pick it from the shelf.

I read The Employees, it's odd but interesting.

>12 Aquila: Oh, good. I like "odd but interesting". I shall look forward to it.

>12 Aquila: it's on it's way to me at the library.

>14 markon: >13 RobertDay:

Give it time to grow on you - it is very very odd and takes awhile to start connecting in a way that makes real sense. I ended up liking it a lot but I’d also admit that if it was longer, I may have not persisted after the first pages - not because it was bad but simply because it was weird.

>10 markon: I've read Ravn's novella; I was highly impressed.

Babel is as good as anything anyone has written this year, even if I don't adore it as much as I did the "Poppy War" trilogy. The World We Make is good, but that Jemisin wearied of the whole concept and just wanted to wrap things up does shine through. A book that is sticking with me is The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Also, if you're not reading Saad Z. Hossain you should be. To be honest, a lot of my favorite works that I read this year were actually published last year. I hesitate to put The Kaiju Preservation Society in my top five, because it was meant to be nothing more than light entertainment, but fatigue with the contemporary scene does seem to be a theme with writers this year; can't imagine why! You embrace elan when and where you find it. I just got my mitts on Nona the Ninth and have high expectations; fingers crossed.