The List: 2015 Science Fiction Awards Nominations for Best Novel

This list is compiled from the Best Novel Awards nominees for 2015. Controversy notwithstanding, I wanted to give myself a survey of some of the modern Sci-Fi on offer. Awards lists currently represented below include: Arthur C. Clarke Awards (#1-6); British SF Association Awards (#3, 5, 7-12); Nebula Awards (#7, 13-17); Hugo Awards (#7, 15-16, 18-20); and Aurealis Awards (Australian SF) (#21-26). Still to come: Aurora Awards (Canadian SF).

I have created a couple of lists to keep track of my progress as well:

• Goodreads Listopia
• List Challenge
• Amazon.com Listmania

And now, in no particular order, the list.

1. The Book of Strange New Things (Michel Faber)
2. The Girl With All the Gifts (M R Carey)
3. Europe in Autumn (Dave Hutchinson)
4. Memory Of Water (Emmi Itäranta )
5. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Claire North)
6. Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
7. Ancillary Sword (Ann Leckie)
8. Cuckoo Song (Frances Hardinge)
9. Lagoon (Nnedi Okorafor)
10. The Moon King (Neil Williamson)
11. The Race (Nina Allan)
12. Wolves (Simon Ings)
13. Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
14. Coming Home (McDevitt)
15. The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison)
16. The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
17. Trial by Fire (Charles E. Gannon)
18. The Dark Between the Stars (Kevin J. Anderson)
19. Skin Game (Jim Butcher)
20. Lines of Departure (Marko Kloos)
21. Peacemaker (Marianne de Pierres)
22. Aurora: Meridian (Amanda Bridgeman)
23. Foresight (Graham Storrs)
24. Nil by Mouth (LynC)
25. This Shattered World (Amie Kaufman)
26. The White List (Nina D'Aleo)