The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more. These are the winners.
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message 1: by Mohrravvian (new)

Mohrravvian Deleted the following books:

Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / Rise of Endymion [the 4-book series is not a winner, just Hyperion, which was already on the list elsewhere]
The Word for World is Forest [won best Novella, not best Novel]
Persistence of Vision [won best Novella, not best Novel]
Coraline [won best Novella, not best Novel]


message 2: by Stig (new)

Stig Edvartsen Deleted Fahrenheit 451, Farmer in the Sky and The Mule.

They are winners of the Retro Hugo, which is a diffent category than Best Novel (The Sword in the Stone also won a Retro Hugo in 2014)


message 4: by Stig (new)

Stig Edvartsen Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Winner for 2015: The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin."

Already added :) Cracking book.


message 5: by Stig (new)

Stig Edvartsen Added last night's winner: The Fifth Season


message 6: by Rique (new)

Rique Santiestevan How is it that "The Weaver of Odds" is on this list? Not a Hugo winner. Is this a prophecy?


message 7: by Stig (new)

Stig Edvartsen Rique wrote: "How is it that "The Weaver of Odds" is on this list? Not a Hugo winner. Is this a prophecy?"

No idea. Removed now.


message 8: by Matt (new)

Matt Grounds Added 2019 winner, The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads That was probably the best new book I read last year. (I.e., not re-reads.)


message 10: by Matt (new)

Matt Grounds Annoying that The Stone Sky and The Calculating Stars are both on the list twice for some reason.


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