I have tentatively picked the books for this year's challenges:

Mind Voyages

Hugo Winners:
1. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1993)
2. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer (1972)
3. The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (1981)
4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (1975)
5. Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (2003)
6. Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978)

Nominees:
1. Babel 17 by Samuel R Delany
2. Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
3. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
4. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross


Historical Fiction

1. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
2. The Concubine's Daughter by Pai Kit Fai
3. Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
6. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory


Chunkster Challenge

1. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
2. The Terror by Dan Simmons
3. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo