Hugo Award: novel

The Hugo Awards are literary prizes given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine. Over the years, the award categories have changed. Currently, there are more than a dozen categories, including an award for best novel.

2024: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh

2023: Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher

2022: A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine

2021: Network Effect, by Martha Wells

2020: A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine

2019: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal

2018: The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin

2017: The Obelisk Gate, by N.K. Jemisin

2016: The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

2015: The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu (and translator Ken Liu)

2014: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

2013: Redshirts, by John Scalzi

2012: Among Others, by Jo Walton

2011: Blackout/All Clear, by Connie Willis

2010: The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi, and The City & the City, by China Miéville

2009: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

2008: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon

2007: Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge

2006: Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson

2005: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke

2004: Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold

2003: Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer

2002: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

2001: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling

2000: A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge

1999: To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis

1998: Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman

1997: Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

1996: The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson

1995: Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold

1994: Green Mars, by Kim Stanle Robinson

1993: A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge, and Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

1992: Barrayar, by Lois McMaster Bujold

1991: The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold

1990: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

1989: Cyleen, by C.J. Cherryh

1988: The Uplift War, by David Brin

1987: Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

1986: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

1985: Neuromancer, by William Gibson

1984: Startide Rising, by David Brin

1983: Foundation’s Edge, by Isaac Asimov

1982: Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh

1981: The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge

1980: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke

1979: Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre

1978: Gateway, by Frederik Pohl

1977: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm

1976: The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman

1975: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin

1974: Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke

1973: The Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov

1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip José Farmer

1971: Ringworld, by Larry Niven

1970: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

1969: Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner

1968: Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny

1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein

1966: Dune, by Frank Herbert, and This Immortal, by Roger Zelazny

1965: The Wanderer, by Fritz Leiber

1964: Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak

1963: The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

1962: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.

1960: Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein

1959: A Case of Conscience, by James Blish

1958: The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber

1956: Double Star, by Robert A. Heinlein

1955: They’d Rather Be Right, by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley

1953: The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester