Hugo Award for Best Novel

Winners

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