Hugo Award for Best Novel Public

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

  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by 

    4 stars

    Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …

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    Winner in 2005.

  2. Spin by 

    4 stars

    Spin is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2005 and won the …

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    Winner in 2006.

  3. Rainbows End by 

    4 stars

    From the back cover:

    World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2007.

  4. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by  (P.S.)

    4 stars

    For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven …

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    Winner in 2008.

  5. The graveyard book by 

    5 stars

    After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2009.

  6. The Windup Girl by 

    4 stars

    The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi. It was his debut novel and …

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    Co-winner in 2010.

  7. The City & the City by 

    4 stars

    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.

  8. Blackout by 

    4 stars

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

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    Winner in 2011.

  9. Among others by 

    4 stars

    Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2012.

  10. 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.

  11. Ancillary Justice by  (Imperial Radch, #1)

    4 stars

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

    Breq is both …

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    Winner in 2014.

  12. The Three-Body Problem by  (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)

    4 stars

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

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    Winner in 2015.

  13. The Fifth Season by  (The Broken Earth, book 1)

    4 stars

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

    IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2016.

  14. Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2017.

  15. The Stone Sky by  (The Broken Earth, #3)

    5 stars

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

    The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …

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    Winner in 2018.

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