The Award Tally

Hugo Award for Best Novel

World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), voted on by members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon)

One of the most prestigious awards in speculative fiction, given annually since 1953 for the best science fiction or fantasy novel (at least 40,000 words) published in the previous year, as voted by Worldcon members.

2026

A Drop of Corruption
Robert Jackson Bennett
Shortlisted
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
Shortlisted
Shroud
John Banville
Shortlisted
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow
Shortlisted
The Incandescent
Emily Tesh
Shortlisted
The Raven Scholar
Antonia Hodgson
Shortlisted

2025

The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
Won
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher)
Shortlisted
Alien Clay
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shortlisted
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shortlisted
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
John Wiswell
Shortlisted
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
Shortlisted

2024

Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
Won
Starter Villain
John Scalzi
Shortlisted
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty
Shortlisted
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
Shortlisted
Translation State
Ann Leckie
Shortlisted
Witch King
Martha Wells
Shortlisted

2023

Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
Won
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
Shortlisted
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Shortlisted
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shortlisted
The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi
Shortlisted
The Spare Man
Mary Robinette Kowal
Shortlisted

2022

A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
Won
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
Shortlisted
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Shortlisted
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Shortlisted
She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan
Shortlisted
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted

2021

Network Effect
Martha Wells
Won
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
Shortlisted
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Shortlisted
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Shortlisted
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
Shortlisted
The Relentless Moon
Mary Robinette Kowal
Shortlisted

2020

A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Won
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Shortlisted
Middlegame
Seanan McGuire
Shortlisted
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
Shortlisted
The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
Shortlisted
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
Shortlisted

2019

The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Won
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted
Revenant Gun
Yoon Ha Lee
Shortlisted
Space Opera
Catherynne M. Valente
Shortlisted
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
Shortlisted
Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse
Shortlisted

2018

The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
Won
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted
Provenance
Ann Leckie
Shortlisted
Raven Stratagem
Yoon Ha Lee
Shortlisted
Six Wakes
Mur Lafferty
Shortlisted
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
Shortlisted

2017

The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
Won
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Shortlisted
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Shortlisted
Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
Shortlisted
Too Like the Lightning
Ada Palmer
Shortlisted

2016

The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Won
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
Shortlisted
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut's Windlass
Jim Butcher
Shortlisted
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
Shortlisted

2015

The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu (Chinese), Ken Liu (translator)
Won
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
Shortlisted
Skin Game
Jim Butcher
Shortlisted
The Dark Between the Stars
Kevin J. Anderson
Shortlisted
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
Shortlisted

2014

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Won
Neptune's Brood
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
Parasite
Mira Grant
Shortlisted
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
Shortlisted
Warbound
Larry Correia
Shortlisted

2013

Redshirts
John Scalzi
Won
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted
Blackout
Mira Grant
Shortlisted
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted
Throne of the Crescent Moon
Saladin Ahmed
Shortlisted

2012

Among Others
Jo Walton
Won
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
Shortlisted
Deadline
Mira Grant
Shortlisted
Embassytown
China Miéville
Shortlisted
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
Shortlisted

2011

Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
Won
Cryoburn
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted
Feed
Mira Grant
Shortlisted
The Dervish House
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin
Shortlisted

2010

The City & the City
China Miéville
Won
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
Won
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest
Shortlisted
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
Robert Charles Wilson
Shortlisted
Palimpsest
Catherynne M. Valente
Shortlisted
Wake
Robert J. Sawyer
Shortlisted

2009

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Won
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Shortlisted
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi
Shortlisted

2008

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
Won
Brasyl
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted
Halting State
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
Rollback
Robert J. Sawyer
Shortlisted
The Last Colony
John Scalzi
Shortlisted

2007

Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
Won
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Shortlisted
Eifelheim
Michael F. Flynn
Shortlisted
Glasshouse
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
His Majesty's Dragon
Naomi Novik
Shortlisted

2006

Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
Won
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
Shortlisted
Accelerando
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Shortlisted

2005

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Won
Iron Council
China Miéville
Shortlisted
Iron Sunrise
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
River of Gods
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Shortlisted

2004

Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
Won
Blind Lake
Robert Charles Wilson
Shortlisted
Humans
Robert J. Sawyer
Shortlisted
Ilium
Dan Simmons
Shortlisted
Singularity Sky
Charles Stross
Shortlisted

2003

Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer
Won
Bones of the Earth
Michael Swanwick
Shortlisted
Kiln People (UK: Kil'n People)
David Brin
Shortlisted
The Scar
China Miéville
Shortlisted
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted

2002

American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Won
Cosmonaut Keep
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
Passage
Connie Willis
Shortlisted
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Shortlisted
The Chronoliths
Robert Charles Wilson
Shortlisted
The Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted

2001

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
Won
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Shortlisted
Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer
Shortlisted
Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson
Shortlisted
The Sky Road
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted

2000

A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Won
A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortlisted
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
Darwin's Radio
Greg Bear
Shortlisted
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
Shortlisted