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What literary awards do you trust?
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Most of them are simply irrelevant to me. Yes, the book might be award-worthy, but I can virtually guarantee that I have differing preferences than the committees. The more "highbrow" the further I'm usually from their rating.
One of the reasons I appreciate the Hugo for Novels is because it tends towards stuff that isn't as high brow like John Scalzi, Martha Wells, Dan Simmons, etc. and even some of their earliest winners and nominees are folks like Heinlen, Asimov, and Frank Herbert, so its a bit more of a genre fans award.