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. All nominees are listed, with a gender breakdown, and books by women are bolded in the nominee list.

2000s

• 2010

  The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and The City and the City by China Miéville

  nominees: 4M/2F

• 2009

  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

  nominees: 5M / 0F

• 2008

  The Yidish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

  nominees: 5M / 0F

• 2007

  Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge

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

• 2006

  Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

  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: Children of God by Mary Doria Russell; Sawyer; Sterling; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis; Wilson

  1998

  Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

  5M: Haldeman, Sawyer, Simmons, Swanwick, Williams

  1997

  Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  3M/2F: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold; Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon; Robinson; Sawyer; Sterling

  1996

  The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

  4M/1F: Baxter, Brin, Sawyer, Stephenson, Remake by Connie Willis

  1995

  Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

  3M/2F: Barnes; Bishop; Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold; Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress; Morrow

  1994

  Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  4M/1F: Bear, Brin, Gibson, Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, Robinson

  1993

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

  3M/2F: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh; Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson; Steel Beach by John Varley; A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge; Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

  1992

  Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  4F/2M Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold; Bone Dance by Emma Bull; Card; All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey; Swanwick; The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge; -- --

  1991 The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

  4M/1F: Bear; Brin; The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold; Kube-McDowell; Simmons

  1990

  Hyperion by Dan Simmons

  4M/1F: Anderson; Card; Effinger; Simmons; 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