Hugo Award for Best Novel: every winner 1953–2025, on audiobook
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is science fiction and fantasy's most prestigious novel prize, voted by the members of the World Science Fiction Society since 1953. Its winners — from Dune and Neuromancer to The Three-Body Problem and The Fifth Season — are among the most-listened audiobooks in the genre.
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Every Hugo Award for Best Novel winner, 1953–2025
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett |
| 2024 | Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh |
| 2023 | Nettle & Bone | Ursula Vernon |
| 2022 | A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine |
| 2021 | Network Effect ✦ | Martha Wells |
| 2020 | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine |
| 2019 | The Calculating Stars ✦ | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2018 | The Stone Sky ✦ | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2017 | The Obelisk Gate | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2016 | The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2015 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice ✦ | Ann Leckie |
| 2013 | Redshirts | John Scalzi |
| 2012 | Among Others ✦ | Jo Walton |
| 2011 | Blackout/All Clear ✦ | Connie Willis |
| 2010 | The City & the City | China Mieville |
| 2010 | The Windup Girl ✦ | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union ✦ | 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 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
| 1993 | 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 N. 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 Jose 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 | Dune ✦ | Frank Herbert |
| 1966 | This Immortal | Roger Zelazny |
| 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 |
| 1956 | Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1955 | They'd Rather Be Right | Mark Clifton and Frank Riley |
| 1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester |
Novels that won both the Hugo AND the Nebula
Science fiction's rare double crown — 26 novels have taken both the fan-voted Hugo and the writer-voted Nebula Award for Best Novel: American Gods · Among Others · Ancillary Justice · Blackout/All Clear · Doomsday Book · Dreamsnake · Dune · Ender's Game · Forever Peace · Gateway · Network Effect · Neuromancer · Paladin of Souls · Rendezvous with Rama · Ringworld · Speaker for the Dead · Startide Rising · The Calculating Stars · The Dispossessed · The Forever War · The Fountains of Paradise · The Gods Themselves · The Left Hand of Darkness · The Stone Sky · The Windup Girl · The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
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