For the last couple of years, I've been increasingly doing that for Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reading primarily recently published books, often Hugo nominees

For the last couple of years, I've been increasingly doing that for Science Fiction and Fantasy: Reading primarily recently published books, often Hugo nominees published the year before. This is another genre where lots of connaisseurs insist on a canon that one absolutely has to have read, but (a) the field has considerably expanded its range of perspectives in recent years and (b) many of the "canon" writers just cannot measure up to the literary quality of contemporary authors (doubtlessly in part due to the audience to which they catered, and the industrial writing process many of them were forced into).