The Hugo Award for Best Novel is awarded annually at the World Science Fiction Convention to science fiction or fantasy novels published the previous year. Open nominations come from members of that year’s WorldCon.
Many—perhaps all—of these books are geeky enough to land a place on our bookshelf. We’ll post the links to our reviews here.
- 2017 Nominees:
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- 2016 : The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- 2015: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, trans. by 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: Tied Between:
- 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- 2008: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- 2007: Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
- 2006: Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
- 2005: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- 2004: Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
- 2003: Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
- 2002: American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- 2001: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
- 2000: A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
- 1999: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
- 1998: Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
- 1997: Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1996: The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
- 1995: Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1994: Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1993: Tied between:
- A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernon Vinge
- Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
- 1992: Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1991: The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1990: Hyperion, Dan Simmons
- 1989: Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
- 1988: The Uplift War, David Brin
- 1987: Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
- 1986: Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- 1985: Neuromancer, William Gibson
- 1984: Startide Rising, David Brin
- 1983: Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov
- 1982: Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
- 1981: The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
- 1980: The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
- 1979: Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
- 1978: Gateway, Frederik Pohl
- 1977: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
- 1976: The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
- 1975: The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
- 1974: Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
- 1973: The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
- 1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
- 1971: Ringworld, Larry Niven
- 1970: The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
- 1969: Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
- 1968: Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
- 1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
- 1966: Tied between:
- And Call Me Conrad, Roger Zelazny
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- 1965: The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
- 1964: Way Station, Clifford D. Simak
- 1963: The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
- 1962: Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
- 1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- 1960: Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
- 1959: A Case of Conscience, James Blish
- 1958: The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
- 1957: No novels awarded
- 1956: Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
- 1955: They’d Rather Be Right, Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
- 1954: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (retro hugo)
- 1953: The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
- 1952: No novels awarded
- 1951: Farmer in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein (retro hugo)
- 1947–1950: No novels awarded
- 1946: The Mule, Isaac Asimov (retro hugo)
- 1941: Slan, A.E. Van Vogt (retro hugo)
- 1939: The Sword in the Stone, T.H White (retro hugo)