Every winner, newest first

Hugo Award for Best Novel Winners

1953 to 2026

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

Hugo Award for Best Novel Winners, newest first
Year	Book and author
2026	The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
2025	The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
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
2014	Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
2013	Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
2012	Among Others by Jo Walton
2011	Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
2010	The City & the City by China Miéville
2010	The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
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 Stanley Robinson
1993	Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1993	A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
1992	Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
1991	The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
1990	Hyperion by Dan Simmons
1989	Cyteen 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	This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
1966	Dune by Frank Herbert
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

About the Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is the most celebrated honor in science fiction, voted each year since 1953 by the members of the World Science Fiction Convention. Winners run from Frank Herbert's Dune and Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, and Martha Wells.

Awarded by: World Science Fiction Society
First awarded: 1953
Country: International
Winner receives: A trophy rather than money

When it is announced

Announced at Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, usually in August. The date and city move each year. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

There is no publisher submission. Members of Worldcon nominate and then vote, so the Hugo is decided by readers rather than a panel.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.