Hello everybody, my name is Rachel and
welcome to my channel Kalanadi!
Today's video is a launch / overview / TBR
/ something like that for a project I've
actually been working on for three years,
but I have committed myself to finishing
it by the end of 2016. I have
about three months and one or two weeks
left in the year to get this done. I have
previously mentioned this challenge in
a couple of other videos, but I never
really talked about what I was reading
for it. And that is, as you can tell from
the title of this video, reading all of
the books that have won the best novel
category from the Hugo Awards and the
Nebula Awards. As of 2016, 66 books
have won the Hugo Award for best novel.
52 have won the Nebula Award for best
novel. And 25 of those books are joint
winners of both of awards, which means (if I
have done my math correctly) there are 93
unique best novel winners across these
two awards. And as of today, September
17th when I'm filming this,
I have read all but 31 of them. So this
is a pretty straightforward project. I'm
going to read 31 books by the end of
this year and at the end of
September, October, November, and December,
I'm going to do a wrap-up video of all
the best novel winners that I read in
each of those months. And then in early
January hopefully i will do a video
about all of the winners: my favorites, my
least favorites, the ones that i have DNF'd,
and just overall thoughts on having read
almost every single one... because I do
realize I have DNF'd some of them. Only 4
so far... good! But clearly I will have
opinions by the end of this project.
The rest of this video is just going to be a
quick list of the 31 books I have to
read by the end of the year. So here we
go! Of the joint winners I have only one
left to read and that is Startide Rising by David Brin. I have 14 Hugo
Award winners left to read. We have Way
Station by Clifford D. Simak. This is also
known as Here Gather the Stars. Stand on
Zanzibar
by John Brunner. The Demolished Man by
Alfred Bester. The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick. Green Mars and Blue
Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, books two
and three in the Mars trilogy. A Deepness
in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. The Uplift
War by David Brin. Cyteen by CJ Cherryh. A Case
of Conscience by James Blish. The Big
Time and The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber.
Double Star by Robert Heinlein. And finally
They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton
and Frank Riley, which is the only one
from this list of 31 books I am NOT
looking forward to reading because I
have heard it is practically unreadable.
And I have 16 remaining Nebula Award
winners to read. They are Red Mars, the
first book in the Mars trilogy and 2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Claw of the
Conciliator by Gene Wolfe. Rite of
Passage by Alexei Panshin. Parable of the
Talents by Octavia Butler. Stations of
the Tide by Michael Swanwick. Slow River
by Nicola Griffith. Timescape by Gregory
Benford. A Time of Changes by Robert
Silverberg. The Moon and the Sun by Vonda
McIntyre. Darwin's Radio and Moving Mars
by Greg Bear. The Healer's War by
Elizabeth And Scarborough. Powers by
Ursula K. Le Guin. The Quantum Rose by
Catherine Asaro. And last, No Enemy But
Time by Michael Bishop. And that's it!
That's what I have left to read, so I
better get started now so I have
something to talk about at the end of
September! I'm actually really excited
to do this. Part of why I'm so excited is
that I'm getting close to the end - this
is totally doable! - but also I really want
to move on to reading the winners of
other awards, like the Arthur C. Clarke
award, the World Fantasy Award, more of
the Tiptree winners, and stuff like
that. And I don't want to go onto those
projects and those challenges until I
have completed this one, because it's
really cool to be able to see that
you've read all of them, or at least
attempted all of them. So wish me luck and
I'll be back to talk about the ones
that I read in September in just a
couple of week. So until then, bye!
