The Hugo Award for Best Novel is the premier honour for science fiction and fantasy novels, voted on annually by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) since 1953. It is one of the field’s highest distinctions - past winners span foundational works from Ursula K. Le Guin and Isaac Asimov to N.K. Jemisin, who won three years running. This list collects the winning novels by year.
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
2025
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
2024
Nettle & Bone
Ursula Vernon
2023
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
2022
Network Effect
Martha Wells
2021
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
2020
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
2019
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
2018
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
2017
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
2016
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
2015
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2014
Redshirts
John Scalzi
2013
Among Others
Jo Walton
2012
Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
2011
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
2010
The City & the City
China Miéville
2010
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
2009
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
2008
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
2007
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
2006
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
2005
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
2004
Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer
2003
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
2002
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling
2001
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
2000
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
1999
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
1998
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1997
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
1996
Mirror Dance
Lois McMaster Bujold
1995
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1994
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
1993
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
1993
Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
1992
The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold
1991
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Dan Simmons
1990
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
1989
The Uplift War
David Brin
1988
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
1987
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1986
Neuromancer
William Gibson
1985
Startide Rising
David Brin
1984
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
1983
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh
1982
The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
1981
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
1980
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
1979
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
1978
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
1977
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
Joe Haldeman
1976
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
1975
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
1974
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
1973
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip José Farmer
1972
Ringworld
Larry Niven
1971
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1970
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
1969
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
1968
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
1967
Dune
Frank Herbert
1966
This Immortal
Roger Zelazny
1966
The Wanderer
Fritz Leiber
1965
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak
1964
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
1963
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
1962
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller
1961
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
1960
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
1959
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
1958
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
1956
They'd Rather Be Right
Mark Clifton, Frank Riley
1955
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
1953