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Nebula Suggested Reading
The Nebula Suggested Reading database was created in compliance with the New Nebula Rules. It provides a way for members to remember the amazing stories that they've read during the year and to share those stories with other readers. While not part of the formal Nebula voting process, this does provide a valuable tool for seeing the breadth of fiction our members read. All SFWA members are eligible to add works to the suggested reading list. Suggestions are moderated for accuracy and to prevent duplicate entries.
This page contains all the works with the most recently submitted stories at the top. Check back often to see what's been added.
To sort the list by category, click one of the links on the left.
“Immortal Beloved” by Cate Tiernan
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, September 2010
“Ship Breaker” by Paolo Baciglupi
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 2010
“Where Two or Three” by Sheila Finch
Is Anybody Out There
Edited by Marty Halpern
Daw, May 2010
“Super sad true love story : a novel” by Gary Shteyngart
Random House, July 2010
“The Native Star” by M. K. Hobson
Spectra, August 2010
“Tomb of the Fathers” by Eleanor Arnason
Tomb of the Fathers: A Lydia Duluth Adventure
June 2010, Aqueduct Press
“Bitter Seeds” by Ian Tregillis
April 2010, TOR
“Starbound” by Joe Haldeman
January 2010, ACE
“What Doctor Gottlieb Saw” by Ian Tregillis
June 2010, Tor.com
“The Copperroof War” by Megan Arkenberg
Ideomancer, June 2010
“A Single Shot” by Lawrence M. Schoen
January 2010, M-Brane SF
“Coyote Destiny” by Allen Steele
March 2010, Ace
“The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” by N. K. Jemisin
February 2010, Orbit
“How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison
Realms of Fantasy, February 2010
“Trailhead” by E.O. Wilson
January 2010, The New Yorker.
“Shambling Towards Hiroshima” by James Morrow
Tachyon Publications, February 2009
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown
December 2009, Infinity Features Entertainment
“Lion Walk” by Mary Rosenblum
January 2009, Asimov’s Science Fiction
“Arkfall” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
September 2008, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Swan Song” by Joanne Merriam
October 2008, Strange Horizons
“The Mermaid’s Tea Party” by Samantha Henderson
Summer 2008, Helix
“She Called Me Sweetie” by Glenn Lewis Gillette
July 2009, Apex Magazine
“A Particular Silence” by Glenn Lewis Gillette
April 2009, Mystic Signals, WolfSinger Publications, Carol Hightshoe, ed.
“Cold Words” by Juliette Wade
October 2009, Analog
“Tales of the White Street Society – The Corpse Army of Khartoum” by Grady Hendrix
February 2009, Pseudopod
“Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa
April 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“If Wishes Were Horses” by Tiffani Angus
May 2009, Strange Horizons
“Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson
December 2009, Spectra
“To Climb a Flat Mountain” by G. David Nordley
November/December 2009, Analog Science Fiction
“The Sugar” by Mary Turzillo
Sky Whales and Other Wonders, Vera Nazarian, ed.
December 2009, Norilana Books
“Driftwood” by Marie Brennan
April 2009, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Rampant” by Diana Peterfreund
August 2009, Harper Teen
“Evermore” by Alyson Noel
February 2009, St. Martin’s Griffin
“The Devil’s Kiss” by Sarwat Chadda
September 2009, Hyperion
“Superhero Girl” by Jessica Lee
June 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Offerings” by Stephanie Burgis
August 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“The Moon Over Tokyo through Leaves in the Fall” by Jerome Stueart
September 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Images of Anna” by Nancy Kress
September 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Light on the Water” by Genevieve Valentine
October 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Reading By Numbers” by Aidan Doyle
November 2009, Fantasy Magazine
“Celadon” by Desirina Boskovich
January 2009, Clarkesworld
“Spar” by Kij Johnson
October 2009, Clarkesworld
“Prophecy of the Sisters” by Michelle Zink
July 2009, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
“Diana Comet” by Sandra McDonald
March 2009, Strange Horizons
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes
December 2009, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Diary of an Interesting Year” by Helen Simpson
December 21 and 28 2009, The New Yorker
“Defence of the Realm” by Greg Mellor
February 2009, Cosmos
Teddy Bears and Tea Parties by S. Boyd Taylor
July 2009, ChiZine
“Fortune’s Folly” by Deva Fagan
April 2009, Henry Holt & Co.
“Bloodhound” by Tamora Pierce
April 2009, Random House Books for Young Readers
“Thirteenth Child” by Patricia C. Wrede
April 2009, Scholastic Press
“Ice” by Sarah Beth Durst
October 2009, Margaret K. McElderry
“Faery Rebels: SpellHunter” by RJ Anderson
April 2009, HarperCollins
“Sacred Scars (A Resurrection of Magic Book 2)” by Kathleen Duey
August 2009, Atheneum
“Watersmeet” by Ellen Jensen Abbott
April 2009, Marshall Cavendish
“Ash” by Malinda Lo
September 2009, Little Brown Books for Young Readers
“Betraying Season” by Marissa Doyle
Septermber 2009, Henry Holt & Co.
“Pimp my Airship” by Maurice Broaddus
August 2009, Apex Magazine
“Black Dog: A Biography” by Peter M. Ball
November, 2009, Interfictions 2, , Sherman & Barak eds.
“The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory” by Cecil Castellucci
November 2009, Interfictions, Sherman & Barzak, eds
“The Dragon of Trelian” by Michelle Knudsen
April 2009, Candlewick Press
“Teaching Bigfoot to Read” by Geoffrey W. Cole
January 2009, Clarkesworld
“Lo’ihi Rising” by Geoffrey W. Cole
November 2009, Intergalactic Medicine Show
“Another Perfect Day” by Steven Popkes
August, 2008, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Candor” by Pam Bachorz
September 2009, Egmont, USA
“The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making” by Catherynne M. Valente
November, 2009, Free Online Novel
“Up” by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
Pixar, May, 2009
“Housework” by Doselle Young
August 2008, “Darker Mask” Tor, Gary Phillips and
Christopher Chambers, eds.
“Ballad of the Groupie Everlasting” by Robert T. Jeschonek
November 2009, “The Trouble With Heroes,” DAW
“The Wish of a Wish” by Robert T. Jeschonek
February 2009, Crime Spells
“The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake” by Robert T. Jeschonek
Fall 2009, Space & Time Magazine
“Forced Retirement” by Robert T. Jeschonek
November 2009, A Thousand Faces,
The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction
“Blood Kin” by Maria Lima
November 2009, Pocket Books
“Shiver” by Maggie Stiefvater
July 2009, Scholastic Press
“Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie” by Maggie Stiefvater
October 2009, Flux
“The Other Lands” by David Anthony Durham
September 2009, Doubleday, Inc.
“The Year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood
September 2009, Random House
“Early Winter, Near Jenli Village” by J. Kathleen Cheney
Fantasy Magazine, April 2009
“Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” by David Moles
November 2009, Eclipse Two, Night Shade Books, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
“The Calling” by David Mack
July 2009, Simon and Schuster
“I Needs Must Part the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes
December 2009, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Generosity” by Richard Powers
Sepember 2009, FS&G
“The Love We Share Without Knowing” by Christopher Barzak
November 2008, Bantam Books
“Under the Dome” by Stephen King
2009, Scribner
“An Orchid for Valdis” by Russell Davis
September 2008, “Imaginary Friends”, DAW Books
John Marco & Martin H. Greenberg, Eds.
“Elegy Beach” by Steven R. Boyett
November 2009, Ace
“Decisions” by Michael A. Burstein
June 2009, The Chronic Rift Podcast
“Eyes Like Stars” by Lisa Mantchev
August 2009, Feiwel and Friends
“Where the Wild Things Are” by David Eggers
2009, Directed by Spike Jonze
“A Memory of Wind” by Rachel Swirsky
Tor.com, November, 2009
“Two Boys” by Steven Popkes
August, 2009, Asimov’s Science Fiction
“Angel Dust” by Ian McHugh
July 2009, Clockwork Phoenix 2
Mike Allen, ed.
“Red-Headed Stepchild” by Jaye Wells
April 2009, Orbit
“Nor Idolatry Blind the Eye” by Charles Ardai
August 2009, Dorchester Publishing
“Mermaid” by Robert Reed
October/November 2009 F&SF
“Blocked” by Geoff Ryman
October/November 2009, F&SF
“The Demon’s Lexicon” by Sarah Rees Brennan
June 2009, Margaret K. McElderry
“Winds of Mars” by Bud Sparhawk
June 2009, Baen’s Universe
“Warbreaker” by Brandon Sanderson
July 2009, Tor
“Cold Words” by Juliette Wade
October 2009, Analog