List of Hugo Award winning novels

This is a list of books by women that have won the Hugo Award for best novel, along with nominees. Typically there are five nominees and one winner. Books by women are in bold. Nominee gender breakdown is listed.

2000s

• 2007

  nominees: 4M/1F: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

  2006

  nominees: 5M

  2005

  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

  nominees: 4M/1F (Clarke)

  2004

  Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

  nominees: 4M/1F (Bujold)

  2003

  nominees: 5M

  2002

  nominees: 3M/1F The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold; Passage by Connie Willis;

  2001

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

  3M/2F: Rowling (winner) & Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson)

  2000

  3M/2F: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling and A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold)

1990s

• 1999

  To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

  3M/2F: Willis and Children of God by Mary Doria Russell)

  1998

  5M

  1997

  3M/2F

  1996

  4M/1F

  1995

  Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

  3M/2F

  1994

  4M/1F

  1993

  Doomsday Book by Connie Willis tied with A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

  3M/2F

  1992

  Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  3F/2M Bone Dance by Emma Bull; All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey; The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge; -- --

  1991 The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

  4M/1F

  1990

  4M/1F: Grass by Sheri S. Tepper)

1980s

• 1989

  Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh won

  3M/2F

  1988

  5M

  1987

  5M

  1986

  4M/1F

  1985

  5M

  1984

  (3M; 2F)

  1983

  (4M; 1F)

  1982

  Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

  (3M/2F)

  1981 The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge

  (4M/1F)

  1980

  (4M/1F)

1970s

• 1979 Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre

  3F/1M: The Faded Sun by C. J. Cherryh; The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey; Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre; Blind Voices by Tom Reamy

  1978

  Pohl

  4M/1F: The Forbidden Tower by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Dickson; Martin; Niven/Pournelle; Pohl

  1977

  Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

  4M/1F; Haldeman; Herbert; Pohl; Silverberg; Wilhelm;

  1976

  Haldeman

  5M: Bester; Haldeman; Niven/Pournelle; Silverberg; Zelazny

  1975 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

  4M/1F: Anderson; Dick; Le Guin; Niven/Pournelle; Priest

  1974

  Clarke

  5M: Anderson, Clarke, Gerrold, Heinlein, Niven

  1973

  Asimov

  6M: Anderson, Asimov, Gerrold, Silverberg, Silverberg, Simak

  1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

  3M/2F: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin; Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey; A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg; Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny; Farmer

  1971

  Niven

  5M: Anderson, Clement, Niven, Silverberg, Tucker

  1970 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

  4M/1F: Le Guin, Anthony, Silverberg, Spinrad, Vonnegut

1960s

• 1969

  (5M)

  1968

  (5M)

  1967

  (5M)

  1966

  (5M)

  1966

  (5M)

  1964

  (4M/1F: Andre Norton, Witch World)

  1963

  4M/1F: The Sword of Aldones, Marion Zimmer Bradley)

  1962

  5M

  1961

  5M

  1960

  5M

1950s

• 1959

  A Case of Conscience by James Blish

  5M: Blish; We Have Fed Our Sea (aka The Enemy Stars) by Poul Anderson; Who? by Algis Budrys; Have Space Suit — Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein; Time killer (expanded as Immortality, Inc.) by Robert Sheckley

  1958 - nominees not published; male writer won

  1957 - no award

  1956 - nominees not published; male writer won

  1955 - nominees not published; team of two male writers won

  1954 - no award

  retroactively awarded in 2004 to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  5M: retroactive nominees: Bradbury; The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov; Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke; Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement; More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

  1953 - nominees not published; male writer won

  1952 - no award

  1951 - no award

  retroactively awarded in 2001 to Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

  5M - Heinlein; Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis; First Lensman by Edward E. Smith; The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

  1950 - no award

1940s

• 1949 - no award

  1948 - no award

  1947 - no award

  1946 - no award

  retroactively awarded in 1996 to The Mule by Isaac Asimov, republished as Part II of Foundation and Empire

  5M: retroactive nominees: Asimov; Red Sun of Danger by Edmond Hamilton (as Brett Sterling); That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis; Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber; The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt