The Award Book
Awards
People
Books
Films
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Winners
2025
The Tainted Cup
☆
Robert Jackson Bennett
★
2024
Some Desperate Glory
☆
Emily Tesh
★
2023
Nettle & Bone
☆
Ursula Vernon
★☆
2022
A Desolation Called Peace
☆
Arkady Martine
★★
2021
Network Effect
☆
Martha Wells
★☆
2020
A Memory Called Empire
☆
Arkady Martine
★★
2019
The Calculating Stars
☆
Mary Robinette Kowal
★☆☆
2018
The Stone Sky
☆
N. K. Jemisin
★★★☆☆
2017
The Obelisk Gate
☆
N. K. Jemisin
★★★☆☆
2016
The Fifth Season
☆
N. K. Jemisin
★★★☆☆
2015
The Three-Body Problem
☆
Cixin Liu
★☆
2014
Ancillary Justice
☆
Ann Leckie
★☆☆☆☆
2013
Redshirts
☆
John Scalzi
★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2012
Among Others
☆
Jo Walton
★
2011
Blackout/All Clear
☆
Connie Willis
★★★☆☆
2010
The City & the City
☆
China Miéville
★☆☆☆☆
2010
The Windup Girl
☆
Paolo Bacigalupi
★
2009
The Graveyard Book
☆
Neil Gaiman
★★
2008
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
☆
Michael Chabon
★★
2007
Rainbows End
☆
Vernor Vinge
★★★☆☆
2006
Spin
☆
Robert Charles Wilson
★☆☆☆☆
2005
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
☆☆
Susanna Clarke
★★☆☆☆
2004
Paladin of Souls
☆
Lois McMaster Bujold
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2003
Hominids
★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2002
American Gods
☆
Neil Gaiman
★★
2001
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
☆
J. K. Rowling
★☆
2000
A Deepness in the Sky
☆
Vernor Vinge
★★★☆☆
1999
To Say Nothing of the Dog
☆
Connie Willis
★★★☆☆
1998
Forever Peace
☆
Joe Haldeman
★★☆
1997
Red Mars
★☆☆
Kim Stanley Robinson
★★☆☆☆☆
1996
The Diamond Age
☆
Neal Stephenson
★☆☆☆
1995
Mirror Dance
☆
Lois McMaster Bujold
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1994
Red Mars
★☆☆
Kim Stanley Robinson
★★☆☆☆☆
1993
A Fire Upon the Deep
☆
Vernor Vinge
★★★☆☆
1993
Doomsday Book
☆
Connie Willis
★★★☆☆
1992
Barrayar
☆
Lois McMaster Bujold
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1991
The Vor Game
☆
Lois McMaster Bujold
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1990
Hyperion
☆
Dan Simmons
★☆☆☆
1989
Cyteen
☆
C. J. Cherryh
★★☆☆☆
1988
The Uplift War
☆
David Brin
★★☆☆☆☆☆
1987
Speaker for the Dead
☆
Orson Scott Card
★★☆☆☆☆
1986
Ender's Game
☆
Orson Scott Card
★★☆☆☆☆
1985
Neuromancer
☆
William Gibson
★☆☆☆
1984
Startide Rising
☆
David Brin
★★☆☆☆☆☆
1983
Foundation's Edge
☆
Isaac Asimov
★★☆☆
1982
Downbelow Station
☆
C. J. Cherryh
★★☆☆☆
1981
The Snow Queen
☆
Joan D. Vinge
★☆
1980
The Fountains of Paradise
☆
Arthur C. Clarke
★★☆☆
1979
Dreamsnake
☆
Vonda N. McIntyre
★
1978
Gateway
☆
Frederik Pohl
★☆☆☆
1977
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
☆
Kate Wilhelm
★
1976
The Forever War
☆
Joe Haldeman
★★☆
1975
The Dispossessed
☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★☆☆☆☆
1974
Rendezvous with Rama
☆
Arthur C. Clarke
★★☆☆
1973
The Gods Themselves
☆
Isaac Asimov
★★☆☆
1972
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
☆
Philip José Farmer
★
1971
Ringworld
☆
Larry Niven
★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1970
The Left Hand of Darkness
☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★☆☆☆☆
1969
Stand on Zanzibar
☆
John Brunner
★☆☆
1968
Lord of Light
☆
Roger Zelazny
★★☆☆
1967
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
☆☆
Robert A. Heinlein
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1966
Dune World
☆☆
Frank Herbert
★☆☆
1966
This Immortal
☆
Roger Zelazny
★★☆☆
1965
The Wanderer
☆
Fritz Leiber
★★
1964
Way Station
☆
Clifford D. Simak
★☆☆☆☆
1963
The Man in the High Castle
☆
Philip K. Dick
★☆
1962
Stranger in a Strange Land
☆
Robert A. Heinlein
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz
☆
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
★
1960
Starship Troopers
☆
Robert A. Heinlein
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1959
A Case of Conscience
☆
James Blish
★
1958
The Big Time
☆
Fritz Leiber
★★
1956
Double Star
☆
Robert A. Heinlein
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1955
They'd Rather Be Right
☆
Mark Clifton
★
1953
The Demolished Man
☆
Alfred Bester
★☆