Hugo Award for Best Novel Public

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

  1. Paladin of Souls by  (Curse Of Chalion, #2)

    3 stars

    Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a …

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    Winner in 2004.

  2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by 

    4 stars

    In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2005.

  3. Spin by 

    5 stars

    One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2006.

  4. Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2007.

  5. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by 

    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.

  6. The Graveyard Book by 

    4 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.

  7. 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.

  8. The City & the City by 

    3 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.

  9. Blackout by  (All Clear, #1)

    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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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 …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2014.

  13. 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 …

    Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2015.

  14. The Fifth Season by  (The Broken Earth, #1)

    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.

  15. Phil in SF says:

    Winner in 2017.

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