novel recommendations requested

[jeliza]

I'm embarking on my hugo nomination ballot, and while as usual my head is stuffed full of short fiction, I haven't read much in terms of hugo-class novels of recent vintage (well, I bought lots of books last year that were apparently pubbed at the end of 2014) and I would love suggestions -- specifically of hugo eligible works, so sf/f published in 2015.

(A big old suggestion post from me of short fiction and artists to check out will be forthcoming.)

I have already read/am planning to (try to) read:

• Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold (apparently considered a 2015 release for the nebula, at least, becuase of the eARC or some such? I highly recommend it, but it isn't the kind of read I tend to put on my Hugo nomination ballot.)


• Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho


• Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear


• House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard


• Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia


• Shadowshaper and Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older


• Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossein


• Last Song before Night by Ilana Myers


• The 5th Season by N.K. Jemisin


• The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall


• Uprooted by Naomi Novik


• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley


• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (pubbed in the UK in 2014, and the US in 2015, ergo Hugo-eligible, and why are the Worldcon awards still based on US pub dates? though I suppose to do otherwise would disadvantage non-US works with the voting population)


• Lagoon, by Nnedi Okorafor (same eligibility as above)

I don't read horror or grimdark (so no Kameron Hurley, and I'm a little trepidatious about the Jemisin based on what I've heard so far), and I don't have the brains for incredibly dense text a la Mieville right now, and I tend to dislike time travel.

So, anything not already on that list I should try and stuff into my brain in the next month?
(I am planning to start each of those, but bailing mid-story and putting on the pile for later if I like it but don't Hugo like it.)

Comments

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I read "Uprooted" and quite enjoyed it. I need to read more, so I don't have any suggestions.

Happy reading and nominating!