ShelfEvidentHugo Award (Best Novel) — Complete Winners List
72 years of winners · World Science Fiction Society · Since 1953 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Alix E. Harrow | Tor | |
| 2025 | Robert Jackson Bennett | Del Rey | |
| 2024 | Emily Tesh | Tordotcom | |
| 2023 | T. Kingfisher | Tor Books | |
| 2022 | Arkady Martine | Tor Books | |
| 2021 | Martha Wells | Tor.com Publishing | |
| 2020 | Arkady Martine | Tor Books | |
| 2019 | Mary Robinette Kowal | Tor Books | |
| 2018 | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books | |
| 2017 | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books | |
| 2016 | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books | |
| 2015 | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie | Orbit Books | |
| 2013 | John Scalzi | Tor Books | |
| 2012 | Jo Walton | Tor Books | |
| 2011 | Connie Willis | Spectra Books | |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Night Shade Books | |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | HarperCollins | |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon | HarperCollins | |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | Tor Books | |
| 2006 | Robert Charles Wilson | Tor Books | |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke | — | |
| 2004 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 2003 | Robert J. Sawyer | — | |
| 2002 | Neil Gaiman | — | |
| 2001 | J. K. Rowling | — | |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | — | |
| 1999 | Connie Willis | — | |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman | — | |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | — | |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | — | |
| 1995 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 1994 | Kim Stanley Robinson | — | |
| 1993 | Vernor Vinge | — | |
| 1992 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 1991 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 1989 | C. J. Cherryh | — | |
| 1988 | David Brin | — | |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1985 | William Gibson | — | |
| 1984 | David Brin | — | |
| 1983 | Isaac Asimov | — | |
| 1982 | C. J. Cherryh | — | |
| 1981 | Joan D. Vinge | — | |
| 1980 | Arthur C. Clarke | — | |
| 1979 | Vonda N. McIntyre | — | |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl | — | |
| 1977 | Kate Wilhelm | — | |
| 1976 | Joe Haldeman | — | |
| 1975 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke | — | |
| 1973 | Isaac Asimov | — | |
| 1972 | Philip José Farmer | — | |
| 1971 | Larry Niven | — | |
| 1970 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 1969 | John Brunner | — | |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny | — | |
| 1967 | Robert A. Heinlein | — | |
| 1966 | Frank Herbert | — | |
| 1965 | Fritz Leiber | — | |
| 1964 | Clifford D. Simak | — | |
| 1963 | Philip K. Dick | — | |
| 1962 | Robert A. Heinlein | — | |
| 1961 | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | — | |
| 1960 | Robert A. Heinlein | — | |
| 1959 | James Blish | — | |
| 1958 | Fritz Leiber | — | |
| 1956 | Robert A. Heinlein | — | |
| 1955 | Mark Clifton and Frank Riley | — | |
| 1953 | Alfred Bester | — |
