Here is my embarrassing list.
=Noteworthy
1984 by George Orwell
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
=Less Noteworthy
Black Sea Gods by Brian Braden
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Smallworld by Dominic Green
The One by John Marrs
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
I usually try push through to the end with most books, but I couldn't do it for this one.
Even after it won the Hugo I was never tempted to go back to it. Found it to be so formulaic. I read just past halfway and it felt like a novelisation of a daytime movie.
Same here, the first chapter is really good, then it becomes this slow story where nothing interesting seems to happen.
Agreed. Sometimes I can't understand why some books win hugo and other awards, besides politics of some sort. I mean some have been good, but not that much.