Riddle. Photo by Kathe Koja.

This thread is for posts about 2026-published works, which people have read and recommend to other Filers.

There will be no tallying of recommendations done in this thread; its purpose is to provide a source of recommendations for people who want to find something to read which will be eligible for the Hugos or other awards (Nebula, Locus, Asimov’s, etc.) next year.

If you’re recommending for an award other than / in addition to the Hugo Awards which has different categories than the Hugos (such as Locus Awards’ First Novel), then be sure to specify the award and category.

You don’t have to stop recommending works in Pixel Scrolls, please don’t! But it would be nice if you also post here, to capture the information for other readers.

The Suggested Format for posts is:

• Title, Author, Published by / Published in (Anthology, Collection, Website, or Magazine + Issue)
• Hugo or other Award Category: (Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Related Work, Series, Graphic Story of Comic, Lodestar, Astounding, etc)
• link (if available to read/view online)
• optional “Brief, spoiler-free description of story premise:”
• “What I liked / didn’t like about it:”
• (Please rot-13 any spoilers.)

There is a permalink to this thread in the blog header.

[Based on a post by JJ.]