Hugo Award Winning Novels
Here is a complete list of official Hugo Award winners for Best Novel. Someone starting to read science fiction can do worse than to start here.
Rainbows End
![]() | author: Vernor Vinge asin: 0812536363 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Spin
![]() | author: Robert Charles Wilson asin: 076534825X binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel
![]() | author: Susanna Clarke asin: 0765356155 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars?
Paladin of Souls
![]() | author: Lois McMaster Bujold asin: 0380818612 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)
![]() | author: Robert J. Sawyer asin: 0765345005 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy.
American Gods: A Novel
![]() | author: Neil Gaiman asin: 0060558121 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $10.17 USD |
American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
![]() | author: J. K. Rowling asin: 0439139600 binding: Paperback list price: $9.99 USD amazon price: $9.99 USD |
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
![]() | author: Vernor Vinge asin: 0812536355 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
![]() | author: Connie Willis asin: 0553575384 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter.
Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
![]() | author: Joe Haldeman asin: 0441005667 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World.









