Hugo Award Winners: Best Novel

The Hugo Award, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), as determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS. The first year the Hugo's were awarded was 1953, in general, a Hugo Award given in a particular year is for work that appeared in the previous calendar year. Note, however, that the winners for 1946, 1951, and 1954 were retrospective awards given much later, in 1996, 2001, and 2004 respectively.

	2007	Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge
	2006	Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
	2005	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
	2004	Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
	2003	Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
	2002	American Gods by Neil Gaiman
	2001	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
	2000	A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
	1999	To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
	1998	Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
	1997	Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
	1996	The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
	1995	Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
	1994	Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
	1993	A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
	1992	Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
	1991	The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (available through Inter-Library Loan)
	1990	Hyperion by Dan Simmons
	1989	Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
	1988	The Uplift War by David Brin
	1987	Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
	1986	Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
	1985	Neuromancer by William Gibson
	1984	Startide Rising by David Brin
	1983	Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
	1982	Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
	1981	The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
	1980	The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
	1979	Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
	1978	Gateway by Frederik Pohl
	1977	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
	1976	The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
	1975	The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
	1974	Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
	1973	The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
	1972	To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
	1971	Ringworld by Larry Niven
	1970	The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
	1969	Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
	1968	Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
	1967	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
	1966 - Tie	... And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny
		Dune  by Frank Herbert
	1965	The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
	1964	Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
	1963	The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
	1962	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
	1961	A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
	1960	Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
	1959	A Case of Conscience by James Blish
	1958	The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
	1957	No Award
	1956	Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
	1955	They'd Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (Available through Inter-Library Loan.)
	1954 (awarded in 2004)	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
	1953	The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
	1952	No Award
	1951 (awarded in 2001)	Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
	1946 (awarded in 1996)	The Mule (part of Foundation and Empire) by Isaac Asimov