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. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi; The City and the City by China Miéville; Boneshaker by Cherie Priest; Wake by Robert J. Sawyer; Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente; Julian M. Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
- 2009
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- nominees: 5M / 0F. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow; The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Anathem by Neal Stephenson; Saturn's Children by Charles Stross; Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi.
- 2008
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- nominees: 5M / 0F. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; Brasyl by Ian McDonald; Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer; The Last Colony by John Scalzi; Halting State by Charles Stross.
- 2007
- Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
- nominees: 4M/1F: Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn; His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik; Glasshouse by Charles Stross; Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge; Blindsight by Peter Watts
- 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