Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

Here are the monthly themes the moderators have selected for 2025. I wanted to post these since I'll be putting up the nominations thread for January 2025 soon. Where did the year go?

JAN - 1970s & 1980s
FEB - Debut Novels & One-Hit Wonders
MAR - Women SF & Women F
APR - Group Re-Read
MAY - Start An Author & Trilogy/Series 1
JUN - Time Travel & Trilogy/Series 2
JUL - Urban Fantasy & Trilogy/Series 3
AUG - Extremely Long
SEP - Multiple Award Books & Newly Eligible (2019 & 2020)
OCT - Anticipating & Dreading
NOV - Close Calls & Big Losers
DEC - Shorts

List updated for 2025:

January
2019: Long & Short
2020: Hard SF & Fantasy
2021: Very Short & Re-Reads/Make-Ups
2022: Post-2000 & Mini-Series 1
2023: Old 30s-50s & New 000s+
2024: 60s & 90s
2025: 70s & 80s

February
2019: Time Travel & Retro
2020: Apocalypse & Humor
2021: Mini-Series 1 & 2
2022: Dark/Urban Fantasy & Mini-Series 2
2023: One-Hit Wonders & Alt-History
2024: One-Hit Wonders & Debut Novels
2025: One-Hit Wonders & Debut Novels

March
2019: Women
2020: Women
2021: Women
2022: Women SF & Fantasy
2023: Women SF & Fantasy (Trilogy 1)
2024: Women SF & Fantasy
2025: Women SF & Fantasy

April
2018: Fantasy & Steampunk
2019: Light SF & Humor
2020: Artificial Intelligence & Alien Invasion
2021: 90's & Fantasy
2022: No books - Catch-Up Month
2023: No books - Catch-Up Month
2024: No books - Catch-Up Month
2024: Group Re-Reads

May
2018: New Releases & 70's
2019: Anticipating & Dreading
2020: Steampunk & Cyberpunk
2021: Mini-Series
2022: Humorous & Steampunk
2023: Hard SF & Trilogy 2
2024: Space Opera & Trilogy 1
2025: Start An Author & Trilogy 1

June
2018: Dystopia & Space Opera
2019: Hugo-Nominated & Nebula-Nominated
2020: 70's & 90's
2021: Retro Hugo & Hard SF
2022: 80s & Retro Hugos
2023: Debut Novels & Trilogy 3
2024: Dark Fantasy & Trilogy 2
2025: Time Travel & Trilogy 2

July
2018: Mini-Series
2019: Hard SF & Fantasy
2020: Alt-History & Time Travel
2021: Anticipating & Dreading
2022: Time Travel & High/Magical Fantasy
2023: Adapted to Screen & Finish a Year/Author
2024: Finish a Year/Author & Trilogy 3
2025: Urban Fantasy & Trilogy 3

August
2018: 00's & Alt-History & Shorts (added for page count)
2019: Extremely Long
2020: Eco-Fiction & Retro Hugo
2021: Very Long Reads (1 book)
2022: Alien Invasion & One-Hit Wonders
2023: Extremely Long (1 book)
2024: Extremely Long (1 book)
2025: Extremely Long (1 book)

September
2018: Dystopia & Space Opera & Shorts (added for page count)
2019: Close Calls & Bad Losers
2020: 30's-70's & 80's-10's
2021: 70's (2 books)
2022: Anticipating & Dreading
2023: Multiple Awards & Newly Eligible (2018)
2024: First Contact & Military SF
2025: Multiple Awards & Newly Eligible (2019 & 2020)

October
2018: Scary (series)
2019: Scary
2020: Scary
2021: Scary
2022: Apocalyptic & Birth Year
2023: Anticipating & Dreading
2024: Anticipating & Dreading
2025: Anticipating & Dreading

November
2018: Scary (series) & First Contact
2019: 60's & Space Opera
2020: Hugo Winners & Nebula Winners
2021: Close Calls & Big Losers
2022: Close Calls & Big Losers
2023: Close Calls & Big Losers
2024: Close Calls & Big Losers
2025: Close Calls & Big Losers

December
2019: Shorts (3 books)
2020: Close Calls & Bad Losers
2021: Shorts (3 books)
2022: Shorts (3 books)
2023: Shorts (3 books)
2024: Shorts (3 books)
2025: Shorts (2 or 3 books?)

wow thanks for all this info Allan.