Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Does not include Retro-Hugos.
Hugo Award for Best Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Startide Rising by David Brin (Uplift, #2)
4 stars
A crippled spaceship crewed by genetically engineered dolphins, a few humans, and a genetically engineered chimp hides on a mysterious …
Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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Neuromancer by William Gibson (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)
4 stars
Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in Earth's computer matrix. Then he double-crossed the wrong people . …
Phil in SF says: 1985 winner
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4 stars
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #2)
4 stars
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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The Uplift War by David Brin (Uplift, #3)
5 stars
The Uplift War is a continuation of the saga of the Five Galaxies. It is a story of courage in …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
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4 stars
The Innermost nature of the human mind and heart becomes the key to an epic struggle for power...and a riveting …
Phil in SF says: 1989 winner
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
4 stars
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man and the reach of twenty-eighth-century science, there …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
4 stars
Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)
4 stars
Cordelia Naismith, legendary ship commander in the Betan Expeditionary Force, a woman who beat the Barrayaran militarists at their own …
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
5 stars
Vernor Vinge has shown, in books like True Names and The Peace War, a unique ability to write science …
Phil in SF says: 1993 co-winner
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
5 stars
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
Phil in SF says: 1993 co-winner
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Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, #2)
4 stars
Red Mars was a science fiction bestseller, a Hugo Award nominee for best novel, and a critical triumph. Thrilling readers …
Phil in SF says: 1994 winner
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Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)
3 stars
Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
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The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
4 stars
Neal Stephenson's dazzling novel Snow Crash set the science fiction world on fire, charting out the literary landscape of the …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, #3)
4 stars
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, covered by seas and settlements, Mars has been dramatically terraformed …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
