Hugo Award for Best Novel Public

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Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Does not include Retro-Hugos.

  1. The Windup Girl by 

    4 stars

    What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the …

    Phil in SF says:

    Co-winner in 2010.

  2. The City & the City by 

    No rating

    When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …

    Phil in SF says:

    Co-winner in 2010.

  3. Blackout by 

    3 stars

    When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2011.

  4. Among Others by 

    No rating

    Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Jo Walton’s Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2012.

  5. Redshirts by 

    4 stars

    Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2013.

  6. Ancillary Justice by 

    4 stars

    On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

    Breq is both …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2014.

  7. The Three-Body Problem by 

    4 stars

    Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2015.

  8. The Fifth Season by 

    5 stars

    This is the way the world ends. Again.

    Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2016.

  9. Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2017.

  10. The Stone Sky by 

    4 stars

    THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

    The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2018.

  11. The Calculating Stars by 

    No rating

    On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2019.

  12. A Memory Called Empire by 

    5 stars

    Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2020.

  13. Network Effect by 

    5 stars

    I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

    When Murderbot's human associates …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2021.

  14. Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2022.

  15. Nettle & Bone by 

    4 stars

    After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2023.

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