Reviews of Hugo Shortlist

This is a list of Hugo nominees and winners for best novel, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. Winners are in bold.

The Hugo award is voted on by the membership of WorldCon each year in a two-round process. It's worth remembering that the Hugo is a popularity contest that doesn't always reward the best book.

2024	Shannon Chakraborty	The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
2024	Vajra Chandrasekera	The Saint of Bright Doors
2024	Ann Leckie	Translation State	8 out of 10
2024	John Scalzi	Starter Villain
2024	Emily Tesh	Some Desperate Glory	10 out of 10
2024	Martha Wells	Witch King

2023	T. Kingfisher	Nettle & Bone	8 out of 10
2023	Travis Baldree	Legends & Lattes	8 out of 10
2023	Mary Robinette Kowal	The Spare Man
2023	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
2023	Tamsyn Muir	Nona the Ninth	7 out of 10
2023	John Scalzi	The Kaiju Preservation Society	2 out of 10

2022	Arkady Martine	A Desolation Called Peace	8 out of 10
2022	Ryka Aoki	Light from Uncommon Stars	9 out of 10
2022	Becky Chambers	The Galaxy, and the Ground Within	8 out of 10
2022	P. Djèlí Clark	A Master of Djinn	7 out of 10
2022	Shelley Parker-Chan	She Who Became the Sun	7 out of 10
2022	Andy Weir	Project Hail Mary

2021	Martha Wells	Network Effect	9 out of 10
2021	Susanna Clarke	Piranesi	6 out of 10
2021	N.K. Jemisin	The City We Became	7 out of 10
2021	Mary Robinette Kowal	The Relentless Moon	7 out of 10
2021	Tamsyn Muir	Harrow the Ninth	9 out of 10
2021	Rebecca Roanhorse	Black Sun	4 out of 10

2020	Arkady Martine	A Memory Called Empire	10 out of 10
2020	Charlie Jane Anders	The City in the Middle of the Night	4 out of 10
2020	Kameron Hurley	The Light Brigade	6 out of 10
2020	Tamsyn Muir	Gideon the Ninth	8 out of 10
2020	Seanan McGuire	Middlegame	4 out of 10
2020	Alix E. Harrow	The Ten Thousand Doors of January	9 out of 10

2019	Mary Robinette Kowal	The Calculating Stars	9 out of 10
2019	Becky Chambers	Record of a Spaceborn Few	10 out of 10
2019	Yoon Ha Lee	Revenant Gun	7 out of 10
2019	Naomi Novik	Spinning Silver	8 out of 10
2019	Rebecca Roanhorse	Trail of Lightning	4 out of 10
2019	Catherynne M. Valente	Space Opera	3 out of 10

2018	N.K. Jemisin	The Stone Sky	9 out of 10
2018	Mur Lafferty	Six Wakes
2018	Ann Leckie	Provenance	8 out of 10
2018	Yoon Ha Lee	Raven Stratagem	6 out of 10
2018	Kim Stanley Robinson	New York 2140	6 out of 10
2018	John Scalzi	The Collapsing Empire	7 out of 10

2017	N.K. Jemisin	The Obelisk Gate	9 out of 10
2017	Charlie Jane Anders	All the Birds in the Sky	5 out of 10
2017	Becky Chambers	A Closed and Common Orbit	9 out of 10
2017	Cixin Liu	Death's End
2017	Yoon Ha Lee	Ninefox Gambit	7 out of 10
2017	Ada Palmer	Too Like the Lightning

2016	N.K. Jemisin	The Fifth Season	8 out of 10
2016	Jim Butcher	The Aeronaut's Windlass
2016	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Mercy	10 out of 10
2016	Naomi Novik	Uprooted	8 out of 10
2016	Neal Stephenson	Seveneves

2015	Cixin Liu	The Three-Body Problem	6 out of 10
2015	Katherine Addison	The Goblin Emperor	8 out of 10
2015	Kevin J. Anderson	The Dark Between the Stars
2015	Jim Butcher	Skin Game
2015	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Sword	9 out of 10

2014	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Justice	10 out of 10
2014	Larry Correia	Warbound
2014	Mira Grant	Parasite	7 out of 10
2014	Robert Jordan	The Eye of the World
2014	Robert Jordan	The Great Hunt
2014	Robert Jordan	The Dragon Reborn
2014	Robert Jordan	The Shadow Rising
2014	Robert Jordan	The Fires of Heaven
2014	Robert Jordan	Lord of Chaos
2014	Robert Jordan	A Crown of Swords
2014	Robert Jordan	The Path of Daggers
2014	Robert Jordan	Winter's Heart
2014	Robert Jordan	Crossroads of Twilight
2014	Robert Jordan	Knife of Dreams
2014	Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson	The Gathering Storm
2014	Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson	Towers of Midnight
2014	Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson	A Memory of Light
2014	Charles Stross	Neptune's Brood	8 out of 10

2013	John Scalzi	Redshirts	7 out of 10
2013	Saladin Ahmed	Throne of the Crescent Moon	7 out of 10
2013	Lois McMaster Bujold	Captain Vorpatril's Alliance	7 out of 10
2013	Mira Grant	Blackout	7 out of 10
2013	Kim Stanley Robinson	2312	5 out of 10

2012	Jo Walton	Among Others	10 out of 10
2012	James S.A. Corey	Leviathan Wakes	7 out of 10
2012	Mira Grant	Deadline	7 out of 10
2012	George R.R. Martin	A Dance with Dragons
2012	China Miéville	Embassytown	9 out of 10

2011	Connie Willis	Blackout	5 out of 10
2011	Connie Willis	All Clear	5 out of 10
2011	Lois McMaster Bujold	Cryoburn	7 out of 10
2011	Mira Grant	Feed	9 out of 10
2011	N.K. Jemisin	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	7 out of 10
2011	Ian McDonald	The Dervish House	7 out of 10

2010	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl	7 out of 10
2010	China Miéville	The City & The City	9 out of 10
2010	Cherie Priest	Boneshaker	8 out of 10
2010	Robert J. Sawyer	Wake	6 out of 10
2010	Catherynne M. Valente	Palimpsest	7 out of 10
2010	Robert Charles Wilson	Julian Comstock	6 out of 10

2009	Neil Gaiman	The Graveyard Book	7 out of 10
2009	Cory Doctorow	Little Brother	7 out of 10
2009	John Scalzi	Zoe's Tale	8 out of 10
2009	Neal Stephenson	Anathem	9 out of 10
2009	Charles Stross	Saturn's Children	7 out of 10

2008	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	10 out of 10
2008	Ian McDonald	Brasyl	7 out of 10
2008	Robert J. Sawyer	Rollback	6 out of 10
2008	John Scalzi	The Last Colony	7 out of 10
2008	Charles Stross	Halting State	7 out of 10

2007	Vernor Vinge	Rainbows End	6 out of 10
2007	Michael Flynn	Eifelheim	7 out of 10
2007	Naomi Novik	His Majesty's Dragon	7 out of 10
2007	Charles Stross	Glasshouse	9 out of 10
2007	Peter Watts	Blindsight	7 out of 10

2006	Robert Charles Wilson	Spin	7 out of 10
2006	Ken MacLeod	Learning the World	7 out of 10
2006	George R.R. Martin	A Feast for Crows	5 out of 10
2006	John Scalzi	Old Man's War	6 out of 10
2006	Charles Stross	Accelerando	8 out of 10

2005	Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	8 out of 10
2005	Iain M. Banks	The Algebraist
2005	Ian McDonald	River of Gods	6 out of 10
2005	China Miéville	Iron Council
2005	Charles Stross	Iron Sunrise	8 out of 10

2004	Lois McMaster Bujold	Paladin of Souls	8 out of 10
2004	Robert J. Sawyer	Humans
2004	Dan Simmons	Ilium	7 out of 10
2004	Charles Stross	Singularity Sky	7 out of 10
2004	Robert Charles Wilson	Blind Lake

2003	Robert J. Sawyer	Hominids	4 out of 10
2003	David Brin	Kiln People	5 out of 10
2003	China Miéville	The Scar	9 out of 10
2003	Kim Stanley Robinson	The Years of Rice and Salt	6 out of 10
2003	Michael Swanwick	Bones of the Earth	6 out of 10

2002	Neil Gaiman	American Gods	7 out of 10
2002	Lois McMaster Bujold	The Curse of Chalion	8 out of 10
2002	Ken MacLeod	Cosmonaut Keep	6 out of 10
2002	China Miéville	Perdido Street Station	9 out of 10
2002	Connie Willis	Passage	8 out of 10
2002	Robert Charles Wilson	The Chronoliths

2001	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	3 out of 10
2001	Nalo Hopkinson	Midnight Robber
2001	Ken MacLeod	The Sky Road
2001	George R.R. Martin	A Storm of Swords	7 out of 10
2001	Robert J. Sawyer	Calculating God

2000	Vernor Vinge	A Deepness in the Sky	8 out of 10
2000	Greg Bear	Darwin's Radio	7 out of 10
2000	Lois McMaster Bujold	A Civil Campaign	9 out of 10
2000	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	4 out of 10
2000	Neal Stephenson	Cryptonomicon	9 out of 10

1999	Connie Willis	To Say Nothing of the Dog	7 out of 10
1999	Mary Doria Russell	Children of God
1999	Robert J. Sawyer	Factoring Humanity
1999	Bruce Sterling	Distraction
1999	Robert Charles Wilson	Darwinia

1998	Joe Haldeman	Forever Peace	7 out of 10
1998	Robert J. Sawyer	Frameshift
1998	Dan Simmons	The Rise of Endymion	9 out of 10
1998	Michael Swanwick	Jack Faust
1998	Walter Jon Williams	City on Fire	8 out of 10

1997	Kim Stanley Robinson	Blue Mars	5 out of 10
1997	Lois McMaster Bujold	Memory	6 out of 10
1997	Elizabeth Moon	Remnant Population
1997	Robert J. Sawyer	Starplex
1997	Bruce Sterling	Holy Fire

1996	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age	7 out of 10
1996	Stephen Baxter	The Time Ships	4 out of 10
1996	David Brin	Brightness Reef	5 out of 10
1996	Robert J. Sawyer	The Terminal Experiment	2 out of 10
1996	Connie Willis	Remake

1995	Lois McMaster Bujold	Mirror Dance	8 out of 10
1995	John Barns	Mother of Storms
1995	Michael Bishop	Brittle Innings
1995	Nancy Kress	Beggars and Choosers	6 out of 10
1995	James Morrow	Towing Jehovah

1994	Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars	6 out of 10
1994	Greg Bear	Moving Mars	8 out of 10
1994	David Brin	Glory Season
1994	William Gibson	Virtual Light
1994	Nancy Kress	Beggars in Spain	8 out of 10

1993	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep	7 out of 10
1993	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book	8 out of 10
1993	Maureen F. McHugh	China Mountain Zhang	8 out of 10
1993	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars	5 out of 10
1993	John Varley	Steel Beach

1992	Lois McMaster Bujold	Barrayar	6 out of 10
1992	Emma Bull	Bone Dance
1992	Orson Scott Card	Xenocide	5 out of 10
1992	Anne McCaffrey	All the Weyrs of Pern	6 out of 10
1992	Michael Swanwick	Stations of the Tide	6 out of 10
1992	Joan D. Vinge	The Summer Queen

1991	Lois McMaster Bujold	The Vor Game	7 out of 10
1991	Greg Bear	Queen of Angels
1991	David Brin	Earth
1991	Michael P. Kube-McDowell	The Quiet Pools
1991	Dan Simmons	The Fall of Hyperion	8 out of 10

1990	Dan Simmons	Hyperion	10 out of 10
1990	Poul Anderson	The Boat of a Million Years	6 out of 10
1990	Orson Scott Card	Prentice Alvin
1990	George Alec Effinger	A Fire in the Sun
1990	Sheri S. Tepper	Grass	6 out of 10

1989	C.J. Cherryh	Cyteen	10 out of 10
1989	Lois McMaster Bujold	Falling Free	7 out of 10
1989	Orson Scott Card	Red Prophet
1989	William Gibson	Mona Lisa Overdrive
1989	Bruce Sterling	Islands in the Net

1988	David Brin	The Uplift War	8 out of 10
1988	Greg Bear	The Forge of God
1988	Orson Scott Card	Seventh Son
1988	George Alec Effinger	When Gravity Fails	6 out of 10
1988	Gene Wolfe	The Urth of the New Sun	5 out of 10

1987	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead	10 out of 10
1987	William Gibson	Count Zero
1987	L. Ron Hubbard	Black Genesis
1987	Bob Shaw	The Ragged Astronauts
1987	Vernor Vinge	Marooned in Realtime	7 out of 10

1986	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game	9 out of 10
1986	Greg Bear	Blood Music
1986	David Brin	The Postman	4 out of 10
1986	C.J. Cherryh	Cuckoo's Egg
1986	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	Footfall	6 out of 10

1985	William Gibson	Neuromancer	6 out of 10
1985	Robert A. Heinlein	Job: A Comedy of Justice
1985	Larry Niven	The Integral Trees	6 out of 10
1985	David R. Palmer	Emergence	9 out of 10
1985	Vernor Vinge	The Peace War	8 out of 10

1984	David Brin	Startide Rising	7 out of 10
1984	Isaac Asimov	The Robots of Dawn	7 out of 10
1984	R.A. MacAvoy	Tea with the Black Dragon
1984	Anne McCaffrey	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	6 out of 10
1984	John Varley	Millennium

1983	Isaac Asimov	Foundation's Edge	6 out of 10
1983	C.J. Cherryh	The Pride of Chanur
1983	Arthur C. Clarke	2010: Odyssey Two	6 out of 10
1983	Robert A. Heinlein	Friday	7 out of 10
1983	Donald Kingsbury	Courtship Rite
1983	Gene Wolfe	The Sword of the Lictor	7 out of 10

1982	C.J. Cherryh	Downbelow Station	6 out of 10
1982	John Crowley	Little, Big	8 out of 10
1982	Julian May	The Many-Colored Land	7 out of 10
1982	Clifford D. Simak	Project Pope
1982	Gene Wolfe	The Claw of the Conciliator	8 out of 10

1981	Joan D. Vinge	The Snow Queen	6 out of 10
1981	Larry Niven	The Ringworld Engineers	7 out of 10
1981	Frederik Pohl	Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1981	Robert Silverberg	Lord Valentine's Castle
1981	John Varley	Wizard

1980	Arthur C. Clarke	The Fountains of Paradise	8 out of 10
1980	Thomas M. Disch	On Wings of Song
1980	Patricia A. McKillip	Harpist in the Wind	8 out of 10
1980	Frederik Pohl	Jem
1980	John Varley	Titan	4 out of 10

1979	Vonda N. McIntyre	Dreamsnake	7 out of 10
1979	C.J. Cherryh	The Faded Sun: Kesrith
1979	Anne McCaffrey	The White Dragon	6 out of 10
1979	Tom Reamy	Blind Voices

1978	Frederik Pohl	Gateway	7 out of 10
1978	Marion Zimmer Bradley	The Forbidden Tower
1978	Gordon R. Dickson	Time Storm
1978	George R.R. Martin	Dying of the Light
1978	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	Lucifer's Hammer	5 out of 10

1977	Kate Wilhelm	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	5 out of 10
1977	Joe Haldeman	Mindbridge
1977	Frank Herbert	Children of Dune	6 out of 10
1977	Frederik Pohl	Man Plus	6 out of 10
1977	Robert Silverberg	Shadrach in the Furnace

1976	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War	7 out of 10
1976	Alfred Bester	The Computer Connection
1976	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	Inferno	7 out of 10
1976	Robert Silverberg	The Stochastic Man
1976	Roger Zelazny	Doorways in the Sand

1975	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed	8 out of 10
1975	Poul Anderson	Fire Time
1975	Philip K. Dick	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1975	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	The Mote in God's Eye	7 out of 10
1975	Christopher Priest	Inverted World

1974	Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous with Rama	3 out of 10
1974	Poul Anderson	The People of the Wind
1974	David Gerrold	The Man Who Folded Himself
1974	Robert A. Heinlein	Time Enough for Love	7 out of 10
1974	Larry Niven	Protector	7 out of 10

1973	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves	7 out of 10
1973	Poul Anderson	There Will Be Time
1973	David Gerrold	When Harlie Was One
1973	Robert Silverberg	The Book of Skulls
1973	Robert Silverberg	Dying Inside
1973	Clifford D. Simak	A Choice of Gods

1972	Philip José Farmer	To Your Scattered Bodies Go	2 out of 10
1972	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven	7 out of 10
1972	Anne McCaffrey	Dragonquest	7 out of 10
1972	Robert Silverberg	A Time of Changes	5 out of 10
1972	Roger Zelazny	Jack of Shadows

1971	Larry Niven	Ringworld	7 out of 10
1971	Poul Anderson	Tau Zero
1971	Hal Clement	Star Light
1971	Robert Silverberg	Tower of Glass
1971	Wilson Tucker	The Year of the Quiet Sun

1970	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	8 out of 10
1970	Piers Anthony	Macroscope
1970	Robert Silverberg	Up the Line
1970	Norman Spinrad	Bug Jack Barron
1970	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five

1969	John Brunner	Stand on Zanzibar	8 out of 10
1969	Samuel R. Delany	Nova
1969	R.A. Lafferty	Past Master
1969	Alexei Panshin	Rite of Passage	5 out of 10
1969	Clifford D. Simak	The Goblin Reservation

1968	Roger Zelazny	Lord of Light	7 out of 10
1968	Chester Anderson	The Butterfly Kid
1968	Piers Anthony	Chthon
1968	Samuel R. Delany	The Einstein Intersection	5 out of 10
1968	Robert Silverberg	Thorns

1967	Robert A. Heinlein	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	6 out of 10
1967	Samuel R. Delany	Babel-17	7 out of 10
1967	Randall Garrett	Two Many Magicians
1967	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon	8 out of 10
1967	James H. Schmitz	The Witches of Karres
1967	Thomas Burnett Swann	Day of the Minotaur

1966	Frank Herbert	Dune	8 out of 10
1966	Roger Zelazny	This Immortal	7 out of 10
1966	John Brunner	The Squares of the City
1966	Robert A. Heinlein	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	6 out of 10
1966	E.E. "Doc" Smith	Skylark DuQuesne

1965	Fritz Leiber	The Wanderer	4 out of 10
1965	John Brunner	The Whole Man
1965	Edgar Pangborn	Davy
1965	Cordwainer Smith	The Planet Buyer

1964	Clifford D. Simak	Way Station	8 out of 10
1964	Robert A. Heinlein	Glory Road	3 out of 10
1964	Frank Herbert	Dune World	8 out of 10
1964	Andre Norton	Witch World
1964	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Cat's Cradle

1963	Philip K. Dick	The Man in the High Castle	7 out of 10
1963	Marion Zimmer Bradley	Sword of Aldones
1963	Arthur C. Clarke	A Fall of Moondust
1963	H. Beam Piper	Little Fuzzy
1963	Vercors	Sylva

1962	Robert A. Heinlein	Stranger in a Strange Land	7 out of 10
1962	Daniel F. Galouye	Dark Universe
1962	Harry Harrison	Sense of Obligation
1962	Clifford D. Simak	The Fisherman
1962	James White	Second Ending

1961	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	A Canticle for Leibowitz	6 out of 10
1961	Poul Anderson	The High Crusade
1961	Algis Budrys	Rogue Moon
1961	Harry Harrison	Deathworld
1961	Theodore Sturgeon	Venus Plus

1960	Robert A. Heinlein	Starship Troopers	4 out of 10
1960	Gordon R. Dickson	Dorsai!
1960	Murray Leinster	The Pirates of Ersatz
1960	Mark Phillips	That Sweet Little Old Lady
1960	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	The Sirens of Titan

1959	James Blish	A Case of Conscience	1 out of 10
1959	Poul Anderson	The Enemy Stars
1959	Algis Budrys	Who?
1959	Robert A. Heinlein	Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
1959	Robert Sheckley	Immortality, Inc.

1958	Fritz Leiber	The Big Time	5 out of 10

1956	Robert A. Heinlein	Double Star	6 out of 10

1955	Mark Clifton & Frank Riley	The Forever Machine	3 out of 10

1953	Alfred Bester	The Demolished Man	7 out of 10

Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.

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