reading through the Nebula Winners

I've come across some in my general reading - Dune, Left Hand of Darkness, Rendezvous with Rama, The Dispossessed, The Forever War, Man Plus, Gateway, Dreamsnake, The Claw of the Conciliator Doomsday Book, Red Mars, American Gods - but now this year alternating with other reading I'm going try to get through every winner.
So far Babel-17, Flowers for Algernon, Ringworld, A Time of Changes.
Babel-17 was a rollicking adventure, I definitely wish it had been longer or more written about the universe and characters. Algernon was a bit maudlin. Did not like Ringworld too densely Hard SF - the jargon and tech came before the characters and dialogue and story. Time of Changes felt really dated with its hippy mind expansion.
Anyone else try this with the Nebula or Hugo or World Fantasy Award or Locus? How did you go?

Nice plan. I just had a look through the Nebula list and hadn't read nearly as many as I figured I would have — only about a dozen of them. I recall liking Ringworld quite a bit, but then that was probably 12 years ago that I read it.

If you'll forgive a little trip down memory lane... I always get a chuckle when Flowers for Algernon comes up. It was assigned reading in 7th or 8th grade. One of my classmates was reading at home when his father (a preacher) happened to glance over his shoulder. I guess the word "nipples" must have jumped off the page at him. He made a big stink about us reading a "sex book" and got the reading assignment pulled. Then my parents wanted to talk to me about what was in the book, but I told them I hadn't read that part yet. Of course I'd read the whole thing soon after it was handed out but it was much less awkward to feign ignorance. Looking back, it was pretty tame stuff but I didn't really care to discuss it with my parents if it could be avoided.

I've read less SF over the last 10 years. I thought I'd go through the list and see what I had read:

Author Novel
1966 Frank Herbert* Dune read
1966 Clifford D. Simak All Flesh is Grass
1966 Theodore L. Thomas (Co-nomination) The Clone
1966 Kate Wilhelm (Co-nomination) The Clone
1966 Philip K. Dick Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
1966 James White The Escape Orbit
1966 Thomas M. Disch The Genocides
1966 William S. Burroughs Nova Express
1966 Keith Laumer A Plague of Demons
1966 Avram Davidson Rogue Dragon
1966 G. C. Edmondson The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
1966 Poul Anderson The Star Fox read
1966 Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1967 Samuel R. Delany+ Babel-17
1967 Daniel Keyes+ Flowers for Algernon read
1967 Robert A. Heinlein The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress read
1968 Samuel R. Delany* The Einstein Intersection
1968 Piers Anthony Chthon
1968 Hayden Howard The Eskimo Invasion
1968 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
1968 Robert Silverberg Thorns
1969 Alexei Panshin* Rite of Passage
1969 James Blish Black Easter
1969 Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1969 Robert Silverberg The Masks of Time
1969 R. A. Lafferty Past Master
1969 Joanna Russ Picnic on Paradise
1969 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
1970 Ursula K. Le Guin* The Left Hand of Darkness read
1970 Norman Spinrad Bug Jack Barron
1970 Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead
1970 John Brunner The Jagged Orbit
1970 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five read
1970 Robert Silverberg Up the Line
1971 Larry Niven* Ringworld read
1971 Joanna Russ And Chaos Died
1971 R. A. Lafferty Fourth Mansions
1971 David G. Compton The Steel Crocodile
1971 Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass
1971 Wilson Tucker The Year of the Quiet Sun
1972 Robert Silverberg* A Time of Changes
1972 Poul Anderson The Byworlder
1972 R. A. Lafferty The Devil is Dead A
1972 T. J. Bass Half Past Human
1972 Ursula K. Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven
1972 Kate Wilhelm Margaret and I
1973 Isaac Asimov* The Gods Themselves read
1973 Robert Silverberg The Book of Skulls
1973 Robert Silverberg Dying Inside
1973 Norman Spinrad The Iron Dream
1973 John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
1973 George Alec Effinger What Entropy Means to Me
1973 David Gerrold When HARLIE Was One
1974 Arthur C. Clarke* Rendezvous with Rama read
1974 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
1974 David Gerrold The Man Who Folded Himself
1974 Poul Anderson The People of the Wind
1974 Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love read
1975 Ursula K. Le Guin* The Dispossessed
1975 Thomas M. Disch 334 Avon
1975 Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1975 T. J. Bass The Godwhale
1976 Joe Haldeman* The Forever War
1976 Arthur Byron Cover Autumn Angels
1976 Tanith Lee The Birthgrave
1976 Alfred Bester The Computer Connection
1976 Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren
1976 Roger Zelazny Doorways in the Sand
1976 Ian Watson The Embedding
1976 Vonda N. McIntyre The Exile Waiting
1976 Joanna Russ The Female Man
1976 Michael Bishop A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
1976 Barry N. Malzberg Guernica Night B
1976 Marion Zimmer Bradley The Heritage of Hastur
1976 Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
1976 Poul Anderson A Midsummer Tempest
1976 Katherine MacLean The Missing Man
1976 Larry Niven (Co-nomination) The Mote in God's Eye read
1976 Jerry Pournelle (Co-nomination)
1976 E. L. Doctorow Ragtime read
1976 Robert Silverberg The Stochastic Man
1977 Frederik Pohl* Man Plus
1977 Larry Niven (Co-nomination) Inferno read
1977 Jerry Pournelle
1977 Marta Randall Islands
1977 Robert Silverberg Shadrach in the Furnace
1977 Samuel R. Delany Triton
1977 Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1978 Frederik Pohl* Gateway
1978 Terry Carr Cirque
1978 Gregory Benford In the Ocean of Night
1978 David Gerrold Moonstar Odyssey
1978 Richard A. Lupoff Sword of Demon
1979 Vonda N. McIntyre* Dreamsnake
1979 Tom Reamy Blind Voices
1979 C. J. Cherryh The Faded Sun: Kesrith read
1979 Gore Vidal Kalki
1979 Gardner Dozois Strangers
1980 Arthur C. Clarke* The Fountains of Paradise
1980 Frederik Pohl Jem
1980 Kate Wilhelm Juniper Time
1980 Thomas M. Disch On Wings of Song
1980 Richard Cowper The Road to Corlay
1980 John Varley Titan read
1981 Gregory Benford* Timescape
1981 Frederik Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1981 Walter Tevis Mockingbird
1981 Robert Stallman The Orphan
1981 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer
1981 Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
1982 Gene Wolfe* The Claw of the Conciliator
1982 John Crowley Little, Big
1982 Julian May The Many-Colored Land
1982 A. A. Attanasio Radix
1982 Russell Hoban Riddley Walker
1982 Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry
1983 Michael Bishop* No Enemy But Time
1983 Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge read
1983 Robert A. Heinlein Friday read
1983 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring
1983 Gene Wolfe The Sword of the Lictor T
1983 Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
1984 David Brin* Startide Rising
1984 Gregory Benford Against Infinity
1984 Gene Wolfe The Citadel of the Autarch
1984 Jack Vance Lyonesse
1984 R. A. MacAvoy Tea with the Black Dragon
1984 Norman Spinrad The Void Captain's Tale
1985 William Gibson* Neuromancer
1985 Lewis Shiner Frontera
1985 Larry Niven The Integral Trees read
1985 Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice read
1985 Jack Dann The Man Who Melted
1985 Kim Stanley Robinson The Wild Shore Ace
1986 Orson Scott Card* Ender's Game read
1986 Greg Bear Blood Music
1986 Tim Powers Dinner at Deviant's Palace
1986 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Winter
1986 David Brin The Postman
1986 Barry N. Malzberg The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
1986 Bruce Sterling Schismatrix
1987 Orson Scott Card* Speaker for the Dead read
1987 William Gibson Count Zero
1987 Gene Wolfe Free Live Free
1987 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
1987 Leigh Kennedy The Journal of Nicholas the American
1987 James K. Morrow This is the Way the World Ends
1988 Pat Murphy* The Falling Woman
1988 Greg Bear The Forge of God
1988 Gene Wolfe Soldier of the Mist
1988 David Brin The Uplift War
1988 Avram Davidson Vergil in Averno
1988 George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails
1989 Lois McMaster Bujold* Falling Free
1989 Lewis Shiner Deserted Cities of the Heart
1989 George Turner Drowning Towers
1989 Gregory Benford Great Sky River
1989 William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive
1989 Orson Scott Card Red Prophet read
1989 Gene Wolfe The Urth of the New Sun
1990 Elizabeth Ann Scarborough* The Healer's War
1990 Poul Anderson The Boat of a Million Years read
1990 Orson Scott Card Prentice Alvin read
1990 John Kessel Good News From Outer Space
1990 Mike Resnick Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future
1990 Jane Yolen Sister Light, Sister Dark
1991 Ursula K. Le Guin* Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea read
1991 Valerie Martin Mary Reilly
1991 James K. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter
1991 Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion read
1991 John E. Stith Redshift Rendezvous
1991 Jane Yolen White Jenna
1992 Michael Swanwick* Stations of the Tide
1992 John Barnes Orbital Resonance
1992 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar read
1992 Emma Bull Bone Dance
1992 Pat Cadigan Synners
1992 Bruce Sterling (Co-nomination) The Difference Engine
1992 William Gibson (Co-nomination)
1993 Connie Willis* Doomsday Book
1993 John Barnes A Million Open Doors
1993 Karen Joy Fowler Sarah Canary H
1993 Maureen F. McHugh China Mountain Zhang
1993 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep
1993 Jane Yolen Briar Rose read
1994 Kim Stanley Robinson* Red Mars
1994 Kevin J. Anderson (Co-nomination) Assemblers of Infinity
1994 Doug Beason (Co-nomination)
1994 Algis Budrys Hard Landing
1994 Nancy Kress Beggars in Spain
1994 Gene Wolfe Nightside the Long Sun
1995 Greg Bear* Moving Mars
1995 Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower
1995 Jonathan Lethem Gun, with Occasional Music
1995 James K. Morrow Towing Jehovah
1995 Rachel Pollack Temporary Agency
1995 Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars
1995 Roger Zelazny A Night in the Lonesome October
1996 Robert J. Sawyer* The Terminal Experiment
1996 John Barnes Mother of Storms
1996 Nancy Kress Beggars and Choosers
1996 Paul Park Celestis
1996 Walter Jon Williams Metropolitan
1996 Gene Wolfe Calde of the Long Sun
1997 Nicola Griffith* Slow River
1997 Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Silent Strength of Stones
1997 Patricia A. McKillip Winter Rose read
1997 Tim Powers Expiration Date
1997 Robert J. Sawyer Starplex
1997 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
1998 Vonda N. McIntyre* The Moon and the Sun
1998 Lois McMaster Bujold Memory read
1998 Kate Elliott King's Dragon
1998 George R. R. Martin A Game of Thrones read
1998 Jack McDevitt Ancient Shores
1998 Walter Jon Williams City on Fire
1998 Connie Willis Bellwether
1999 Joe Haldeman* Forever Peace
1999 Catherine Asaro The Last Hawk
1999 Jack McDevitt Moonfall
1999 Harry Turtledove How Few Remain
1999 Martha Wells Death of the Necromancer
1999 Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
2000 Octavia E. Butler* Parable of the Talents
2000 Ken MacLeod The Cassini Division
2000 George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings read
2000 Maureen F. McHugh Mission Child
2000 Sean Stewart Mockingbird
2000 Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
2001 Greg Bear* Darwin's Radio
2001 Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign read
2001 Kathleen Ann Goonan Crescent City
2001 Nalo Hopkinson Midnight Robber
2001 Jack McDevitt Infinity Beach
2001 Charles de Lint Forests of the Heart
2002 Catherine Asaro* The Quantum Rose read
2002 Jeffrey Carver Eternity's End
2002 Geoffrey A. Landis Mars Crossing
2002 George R. R. Martin A Storm of Swords read
2002 Wil McCarthy The Collapsium
2002 Patricia A. McKillip The Tower at Stony Wood read
2002 Tim Powers Declare
2002 Connie Willis Passage
2003 Neil Gaiman* American Gods
2003 Kelley Eskridge Solitaire
2003 Ursula K. Le Guin The Other Wind
2003 Robert A. Metzger Picoverse
2003 China Miéville Perdido Street Station
2003 Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth
2004 Elizabeth Moon* The Speed of Dark
2004 Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity read
2004 Carol Emshwiller The Mount
2004 Kathleen Ann Goonan Light Music
2004 Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads
2004 Jack McDevitt Chindi
2005 Lois McMaster Bujold* Paladin of Souls read
2005 Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
2005 Jack McDevitt Omega
2005 David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
2005 Sean Stewart Perfect Circle
2005 Gene Wolfe The Knight
2006 Joe Haldeman* Camouflage
2006 Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2006 Jack McDevitt Polaris
2006 Terry Pratchett Going Postal read
2006 Geoff Ryman Air
2006 John C. Wright Orphans of Chaos
2007 Jack McDevitt* Seeker
2007 Ellen Kushner The Privilege of the Sword
2007 Jeffrey Ford The Girl in the Glass
2007 Jo Walton Farthing
2007 Richard Bowes From the Files of the Time Rangers
2007 Wil McCarthy To Crush the Moon
2008 Michael Chabon* The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2008 Jack McDevitt Odyssey
2008 Joe Haldeman The Accidental Time Machine
2008 Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms
2008 Tobias S. Buckell Ragamuffin
2009 Ursula K. Le Guin* Powers
2009 Cory Doctorow Little Brother
2009 Jack McDevitt Cauldron
2009 Ian McDonald Brasyl
2009 Terry Pratchett Making Money read
2009 David J. Schwartz Superpowers
2010 Paolo Bacigalupi* The Windup Girl
2010 Christopher Barzak The Love We Share Without Knowing
2010 Laura Anne Gilman Flesh and Fire
2010 China Miéville The City & the City
2010 Cherie Priest Boneshaker
2010 Jeff VanderMeer Finch
2011 Connie Willis* Blackout/All Clear
2011 M. K. Hobson The Native Star
2011 N. K. Jemisin The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2011 Mary Robinette Kowal Shades of Milk and Honey
2011 Jack McDevitt Echo
2011 Nnedi Okorafor Who Fears Death
2012 Jo Walton Among Others
2012 China Miéville Embassytown
2012 Jack McDevitt Firebird
2012 Kameron Hurley God's War
2012 Genevieve Valentine Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
2012 N. K. Jemisin The Kingdom of Gods

That adds up to 41, if I counted correctly.

102 read, with 32 still on the TBR pile....

on library thing you can go to home, statistics, common knowledge, awards and it should list the nebula winners and nominees that you have in your library. I think this is a cool feature on LT.

Ive only read 8 winners and 7 others that were nominated. I have a number unread in my library.

I've read all 60 of the Hugo's, 30 out of 47 Nebula's, 35 out of 41 Locus (SF) awards. I'm rather less successful on the Campbell, Clarke, BSFA etc.
I use a website called World Without End to track my progress. It shows all the winners and nominees for all the major SF and Fantasy awards plus many of the "Lists" such as Locus SF All-time, David Pringle etc and all in book cover format. I have a free account and mark down what I've read, what I'm reading and whats on my TBR. Highly recommended for any listophile.

Link is https://www.worldswithoutend.com

I will buy All Clear at some stage to complete my collection of Nebula nominated novels, The Hugo nominated novels I am fourt short on, two fron this year, All Clear, and one I do no intend to get (LRH).

Nebula Award for Best Novel winners I've read:

Dune
Flowers for Algernon
Ringworld
The Forever War
Startide Rising
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead

Nebula Award for Best Novel winners I own copies of but haven't read yet:

The Left Hand of Darkness
Rendezvous with Rama
The Dispossessed
Gateway
Dreamsnake
Neuromancer

>6

I'll second your recommendation. That's an excellent site.

Those I've read so far, or that are in TBR Mount (*)

All the Gene Wolfe but one already listed, and many others are in "obtain when opportunity arises" status.

1966 Frank Herbert Dune
1967 Samuel R. Delany Babel-17 *
1967 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
1967 Robert A. Heinlein The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
1968 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
1969 Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1970 Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
1970 Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead
1971 Larry Niven Ringworld
1974 Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama
1975 Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
1976 Marion Zimmer Bradley The Heritage of Hastur
1978 Frederik Pohl Gateway
1979 C. J. Cherryh The Faded Sun: Kesrith
1981 Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
1982 John Crowley Little, Big *
1982 A. A. Attanasio Radix
1982 Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry
1983 Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
1983 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring
1984 Jack Vance Lyonesse
1985 William Gibson Neuromancer
1986 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game read
1986 Brian Aldiss Helliconia Winter
1987 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead
1987 William Gibson Count Zero
1987 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale *
1988 Gene Wolfe Soldier of the Mist
1989 Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free
1989 William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive
1989 Orson Scott Card Red Prophet
1990 Orson Scott Card Prentice Alvin
1991 Ursula K. Le Guin Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1991 Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion
1992 Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar
1992 Bruce Sterling (Co-nomination) The Difference Engine
1992 William Gibson (Co-nomination)
1993 Connie Willis Doomsday Book
1994 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars *
1995 James K. Morrow Towing Jehovah
1998 George R. R. Martin A Game of Thrones
2000 George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings read
2002 George R. R. Martin A Storm of Swords read
2003 Ursula K. Le Guin The Other Wind *
2003 China Miéville Perdido Street Station
2004 Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity
2005 Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin of Souls
2007 Ellen Kushner The Privilege of the Sword
2010 China Miéville The City & the City *
2010 Cherie Priest Boneshaker *

>6 Thanks for that site. A time sink, but I had a diverting afternoon! And now I can readily report that I have read 79 books from the Nebula list: 23 winners and 56 nominees!

The award description for the Nebula award describes the process as it was until a few years ago. Rolling Eligability and the Preliminary ballot no longer exist. Does anyone know the new process well enough to rewrite the description.

The Term nominee is very vague for both the Hugos and the Nebulas. For the Hugos during the nomination phase eligible persons can nominate up to 5 works in each catagory. The 5 most nominated go onto the ballot, after the award the top 15 nominated works in each catagory are named. For this reason I use tag of Hugo Ballot rather than Hugo Nominee. Similarly with the Nebula (old style) anything on the Preliminary ballot has been nominated. I therfore tag with Nebula Final. But I am not changing all that CK.

>10 You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it.