Reading the 2025 Hugo Finalists for Best Novel

Having finished reading through the past 71 years of Hugo award winners and with the 2025 Hugo Award finalists announced, I'm planning to spend the next few months reading through the best novel finalists so I can vote on the winners.

I won't be writing "reviews" of the novels by any means. I will simply be capturing my opinions about each one so I can think about them as a whole during voting. I hope to keep this up year-to-year as I am a somewhat slow reader and I can't even imagine trying to follow more novels over the course of the year in order to actually nominate something.

Reading in no particular order (just whenever I can get them from the library!) here is my ranking as I go:

1. Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
2. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky