Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Does not include Retro-Hugos.
Hugo Award for Best Novel Public
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
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The City & the City by China Miéville
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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.
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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
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.
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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
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.
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Phil in SF says: Winner in 2017.
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The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
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.
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
5 stars
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.
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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
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.
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Network Effect by Martha Wells
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.
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Phil in SF says: Winner in 2022.
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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
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.
