Every 2010s Hugo Winning Book Reviewed & Ranked!

Hugo Award Winning Science Fiction Books from 2010's. This is the most recent complete decade with some great and some not-so-great books. What are your favorites?

Sadly my puppy, Pico, is not in the video.

#hugo #sciencefiction #awardwinning
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Context
04:34 - Winners by Year
11:57 - My Rankings

[mikejcross]

Great idea for a video series!

For anyone wishing to dive deeper into the Hugo Awards, and the books that won and were nominated, Jo Walton wrote a series of 49 posts on Reactor (pka Tor) in 2010/11, called 'Revisiting The Hugos'. Each column covered a year, discussing the nominees, and other books that Jo thought should have been nominated.

The columns were subsequently published in book form as 'An Informal History of the Hugos - A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000'.

[WordsinTime]

I’ve read 4 of these and would rank them as The Three-Body Problem, Ancillary Justice, The City & the City, The Fifth Season. And The Windup Girl is high on my TBR!

[roadie]

I really enjoyed that context for the decade at the beginning.

[SciFiScavenger]

Yay me, I've read nearly all of those. I liked Ancillary Justice and the Connie Willis books worked some magic on me. I thought the Jemesin books were great, she did a bunch of new stuff in them, or so it seemed to me. Whether they deserved consecutive Hugos is another thing. Love your work!

[Ducks_ever]

Thank you for extending my very long TBR.

[holyfreak]

Just what I needed, one of your videos😉

[darthandy]

Of the ones I’ve read, I like all of them but here is my order:
1-Three Body Problem
2-Redshirts
3-The City and the City
4-The 5th Season
Drop off
5-The Wind-up Girl
6-The Obelisk Gate
7-The Stone Sky

Ancillary Justice has been on my TBR forever.

[nstents]

Redshirts is Scalzi's all time nadir after which he only went downhill. Paradox intententional. Just my humble opinion.

[reynoldsmathey]

Fantastic video! I'm reading Ancillary Justice now, actually. While I've only read three from this list, I think your recommendations and reactions are spot on. Just picked up a more recent Paolo Bacigalupi - The Water Knife, because I so loved The Windup Girl, which was my favorite from the ones I have read from this list. Thanks, Whitney.

[cherylclough]

I loved Calculsting Stars and Ancilliary Justice. Maybe I’m oblivious but I didn’t have much trouble w pronouns. Love these

[actor]

I read all 11 of these. I appreciate your list. For me, my top 2 would be The Calculating Stars tied with the Connie Willis duology. There is also a special place in my heart for Redshirts, even though your comments about it were fair. I enjoyed this video. It reminded me of some old friends.

[Johanna_reads]

Excellent video! I can’t believe it’s already been ten years since The Three Body Problem was published. I still need to get to it! 😅

[TheMike]

I really liked this look at the 2010s Hugo winners. For this batch, I have read The Three Body Problem, The Broken Earth trilogy and The Calculating Stars and enjoyed them all. I have a few of the others on my shelves waiting to be read.

[glennaustin]

The only one (two) of these I have read are Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis, which are brilliant, and were my joint book of the year for 2022. Not at all tempted to read any of the others on this list to be honest!

[zumzoom]

Oof, looks like I'm really behind on recent books (yes, 2010 is very recent to my reading habits), I only read Three Body from this list. Got me curious with your #1, though I'm not sure when I'll try it out, since I'm not exactly a fan of sci-fantasy.

An aside about the context bit. Weirdly, The Big Bang Theory was my gateway to geekdom (Star Trek, Doctor Who, maybe some other stuff), but now when I try to watch it, I can't stand a minute of it. Feels actually insulting to nerds and geeks, and to audience's intellect in general - "look, I said a geeky word, now laugh! Those geeks are ridiculous, aren't they?".🤨

[sandyhausler]

I agree with you about Redshirts. Don’t know how that book won a Hugo!

[grahamguy]

Great vid I thought you were working your way through the decades starting with the 70s as your last vid but picking a decent sounds more interesting

[setherd]

Great video! AS an FYI I think Mary Robinette is her first name. I listen to her on the Writing Excuses podcast. I used to think Robinette was her middle name.

[peterelliott]

What a great video series. I think like you I'm less keen on several books in a series winning awards. Looking at the other nominees for those years for NK Jemisin won after The Fifth Season, for 2017 I really enjoyed Charlies James Anders' All the Birds In The Sky - but I haven't read the other nominees so wouldn't like to be definite. In 2018 John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire would have been the best choice (and is better than Redshirts which I still like though).
In the same vein Connie Willis win was the 3rd/4th for the Oxford Time Travel series (the others being in '93 & '99). However I haven't read any of the other nominees for 2011. I think I'm getting too deep in this!!!

[dalejones]

These videos are so good. I love this Hugo series. Two books I'm interested in are The Wind Up Girl and Ancillary Justice but that plural pronoun thing always confuses me so much in books. I'm always wondering who "they" are and I find myself going back to see what I missed. I would love if writers would use new pronouns for non binary characters. I've heard of a book that uses Ve, Vis, and Ver as the pronouns. That would be much less confusing. Thank you Whitey. Great