Hugo Award for Best Novel

Winners

2026The Everlasting ★Alix E. Harrow ★☆
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 and 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 ★☆