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
- (only four nominees total: three women, one man)
- 1978
- (4M/1F)
- 1977
- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
- (4M/1F)
- 1976
- (5M)
- 1975 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- (4M/1F)
- 1974
- (5M)
- 1973
- (6M)
- 1972
- (3M/2F)
- 1971
- (5M)
- 1970 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- (4M/1F)
1960s
- 1969
- (5M)
- 1968
- (5M)
- 1967
- (5M)
- 1966
- (5M)
- 1966
- (4M)
- 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
- 5M
- 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 one of five male nominees
- 5M
- 1953 - nominees not published; male writer won
- 1952 - no award
- 1951 - no award; retroactively awarded in 2001 to one of five male nominees
- 5M
- 1950 - no award
1940s
- 1949 - no award
- 1948 - no award
- 1947 - no award
- 1946 - no award; retroactively awarded in 1996 to one of five male nominees
- 5M