It’s another fun topic for Top 5 Tuesday! This weekly meme is hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.
This week’s topic is Top 5 award-winning books, and the prompt is: You can pick a specific award or just any book you’ve read that’s ever won an award. What are your faves?
I love following genre-specific awards, and the Hugo picks are always exciting. Here are my top 5 Hugo award winners from recent years:
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher — Best Novella, 2023
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — Best Novella, 2022
- Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire — Best Series, 2022 (first book: Every Heart a Doorway)
- The Expanse by James S. A. Corey — Best Series, 2020 (first book: Leviathan Wakes)
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal — Best Novel, 2019
Of course, there are plenty more Hugo winners and nominees that I’ve loved… not to mention all the ones I still want to read!
Click here to see the complete Hugo history. So many books for my TBR!
What book awards do you follow? Do you have any favorite award-winners to recommend?
Bookshelf Fantasies 
I think the Hugo Awards are too fantasy for me. I enjoy fantasy, but I’m more of a romantasy reader.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2024/10/08/top-5-tuesday-award-winning-books/
Funny, I’m the opposite! I love sci-fi and fantasy, but so far, haven’t had much success with romantasy.
T Kingfisher – a new favourite of mine!
I’ve loved every single thing I’ve read by her!
I don’t follow awards too closely, because sometimes the winners don’t make sense. But I’ve read three of these and loved them!
I find I can relate more to genre awards like the Hugos (or Nebula, or Locus) than to the big-name literary awards, since literary fiction generally doesn’t appeal to me much.
Those last two are on my TBR list. And I know I say this a lot, but I do really want to read both of them….someday soon. I hope. ;D
I hope so too!! I loved both series… and the 4th & final book in the Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut) series is coming in early 2025!
I really want to check out Wayward Children & something by T. Kingfisher sometime. I don’t really follow any awards but I had a quick look at the winners & runners up of the last few years and have quite a few of them on my TBR. I also spotted two books that I adored so perhaps I should try to watch out for this one in the future.
If you’re a sci-fi/fantasy reader, then this is a good award to keep an eye on — it’s definitely led me to some great books over the years!
I didn’t know Thornhedge was an award winning book! I loved it when I read it earlier this year. So dark and creepy… and I do love a good fairytale retelling. Thanks for joining this week!
Thanks for hosting! What a fun topic 🙂 I’m glad you loved Thornhedge!!