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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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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

This is hard because winning an award is almost never the only factor. When I was very young I read books because they had won the Hugo, the Nebula or the World Fantasy Award, but I haven't done that for about thirty years.

Nowadays, if a book wins an award, and is recommended by reviewers I respect (or condemmed by those I know have opposite taste to me) I'll read it.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That doesn't usually happen for me because by the time something wins or is nominated for an award I generally have a sense of how it's been reviewed. So the award itself is generally a tipping factor -- in fact, The Inheritance of Loss is an example. I was aware of it as being positively reviewed, it won the Boooker, I bought a copy, it was nominated for the Orange, I'm getting around to reading it.