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[Poll #980885]

Note: "An award" does not mean that you are indiscriminate and will read something just because it won A. N. Award. If you occasionally read books because they win the Whitbread, but couldn't care less about the Nebula winner, tick "yes" for "I have occasionally read a book because it was nominated for or won an award." Similarly, if you've been debating about picking up a book and then an award tips you over the edge, that counts as a yes too. Use your own judgement for what counts as "occasionally" or "often".

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[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I tend to watch the Booker and Orange lists to see what modern fiction is out there but I don't unthinkingly read the shortlist and winner. It very much depends on the time I have: last year I read nothing on the list however in the previous year I read two titles. The Line of Beauty, for instance, would never have been read except it won the prize. Which would have been a pity.

When I returned to serious sf/fantasy reading I used the Clarke shortlist as a reading guide but a couple of years in I'm more discriminating.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think this is an eminently sensible approach.