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Award Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
255 books from 15 lists, 1818 to 2026
Science fiction has two of the most respected prizes in publishing, the Hugo voted by readers and the Nebula voted by writers, and they agree far more often than they disagree. This page collects every winner of both alongside the speculative novels that took literary prizes instead, so Ursula K. Le Guin sits beside Kazuo Ishiguro and the genre reads as one shelf rather than two.
Start here
Four editorial starting points for different tastes. These are suggestions, not a ranking; the complete shelves follow below.
For people and politics on another world
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. An envoy tries to understand an icy planet and its people; choose this for a patient story about trust, gender, and the limits of an outsider's assumptions.
Its early political detail asks for attention; it is not a quick space adventure.
For a dark fairy tale
Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Agnieszka leaves her village for a wizard's tower while a corrupted forest threatens her home; choose this for unruly magic and a story rooted in friendship and place.
The forest brings horror as well as wonder.
For an expansive political epic
Dune by Frank Herbert. Paul Atreides enters a struggle over the desert planet Arrakis; choose this for ecology, rival powers, and the dangerous appeal of a promised savior.
Expect unfamiliar terms and a large cast. This is the opening novel of a longer series.
For history with magic in its margins
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Two magicians bring practical magic back to England during the Napoleonic Wars; choose this for social comedy, scholarly footnotes, and an increasingly unsettling fairy world.
It is a long, deliberately leisurely novel.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2026 The Everlasting
- 2025 The Tainted Cup
- 2024 Some Desperate Glory
- 2023 Nettle & Bone
- 2022 A Desolation Called Peace
- 2021 Network Effect
- 2020 A Memory Called Empire
- 2019 The Calculating Stars
- 2018 The Stone Sky
- 2017 The Obelisk Gate
- 2016 The Fifth Season
- 2015 The Three-Body Problem
- 2014 Ancillary Justice
- 2013 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
- 2012 Among Others
- 2011 Blackout/All Clear
- 2010 The City & the City
- 2010 The Windup Girl
- 2009 The Graveyard Book
- 2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- 2007 Rainbows End
- 2006 Spin
- 2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 2004 Paladin of Souls
- 2003 Hominids
- 2002 American Gods
- 2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 2000 A Deepness in the Sky
- 1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog
- 1998 Forever Peace
- 1997 Blue Mars
- 1996 The Diamond Age
- 1995 Mirror Dance
- 1994 Green Mars
- 1993 A Fire Upon the Deep
- 1993 Doomsday Book
- 1992 Barrayar
- 1991 The Vor Game
- 1990 Hyperion
- 1989 Cyteen
- 1988 The Uplift War
- 1987 Speaker for the Dead
- 1986 Ender's Game
- 1985 Neuromancer
- 1984 Startide Rising
- 1983 Foundation's Edge
- 1982 Downbelow Station
- 1981 The Snow Queen
- 1980 The Fountains of Paradise
- 1979 Dreamsnake
- 1978 Gateway
- 1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- 1976 The Forever War
- 1975 The Dispossessed
- 1974 Rendezvous with Rama
- 1973 The Gods Themselves
- 1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- 1971 Ringworld
- 1970 The Left Hand of Darkness
- 1969 Stand on Zanzibar
- 1968 Lord of Light
- 1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- 1966 Dune
- 1966 This Immortal
- 1965 The Wanderer
- 1964 Way Station
- 1963 The Man in the High Castle
- 1962 Stranger in a Strange Land
- 1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz
- 1960 Starship Troopers
- 1959 A Case of Conscience
- 1958 The Big Time
- 1956 Double Star
- 1955 They'd Rather Be Right
- 1953 The Demolished Man
- 2025 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- 2024 Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- 2023 The Saint of Bright Doors
- 2022 Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
- 2021 A Master of Djinn
- 2019 A Song for a New Day
- 2016 All the Birds in the Sky
- 2015 Uprooted
- 2014 Annihilation
- 2012 2312
- 2008 Powers
- 2006 Seeker
- 2005 Camouflage
- 2003 The Speed of Dark
- 2001 The Quantum Rose
- 2000 Darwin's Radio
- 1999 Parable of the Talents
- 1997 The Moon and the Sun
- 1996 Slow River
- 1995 The Terminal Experiment
- 1994 Moving Mars
- 1993 Red Mars
- 1991 Stations of the Tide
- 1990 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
- 1989 The Healer's War
- 1988 Falling Free
- 1987 The Falling Woman
- 1982 No Enemy But Time
- 1981 The Claw of the Conciliator
- 1980 Timescape
- 1976 Man Plus
- 1971 A Time of Changes
- 1968 Rite of Passage
- 1967 The Einstein Intersection
- 1966 Babel-17
- 1966 Flowers for Algernon
- 2025 The First State of Being
- 2024 The Eyes and the Impossible
- 2022 The Last Cuentista
- 2021 When You Trap a Tiger
- 2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- 2014 Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
- 2010 When You Reach Me
- 2004 The Tale of Despereaux
- 1994 The Giver
- 1985 The Hero and the Crown
- 1976 The Grey King
- 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- 1969 The High King
- 1963 A Wrinkle in Time
- 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons
- 1947 Miss Hickory
- 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- 2024 Orbital
- 2019 The Testaments
- 2024 The Ministry of Time
- 2021 Klara and the Sun
- 2021 Project Hail Mary
- 2018 Circe
- 2014 Station Eleven
- 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- 2011 Ready Player One
- 2011 The Martian
- 2008 The Hunger Games
- 2005 Never Let Me Go
- 2004 Cloud Atlas
- 2003 The Time Traveler's Wife
- 2000 The Amber Spyglass
- 1992 Snow Crash
- 1991 Outlander
- 1990 Jurassic Park
- 1983 The Colour of Magic
- 1979 Kindred
- 1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 1978 The Stand
- 1975 The Female Man
- 1973 The Princess Bride
- 1972 Invisible Cities
- 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
- 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 1967 The Master and Margarita
- 1963 Cat's Cradle
- 1962 A Clockwork Orange
- 1958 The Once and Future King
- 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring
- 1953 Fahrenheit 451
- 1951 The Day of the Triffids
- 1950 I, Robot
- 1950 The Martian Chronicles
- 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 1946 Titus Groan
- 1944 Ficciones
- 1937 The Hobbit
- 1933 Lost Horizon
- 1932 Brave New World
- 2023 Saint Death's Daughter
- 2022 The Jasmine Throne
- 2021 Trouble the Saints
- 2020 Queen of the Conquered
- 2019 Witchmark
- 2018 Jade City
- 2018 The Changeling
- 2017 The Sudden Appearance of Hope
- 2016 The Chimes
- 2015 The Bone Clocks
- 2014 A Stranger in Olondria
- 2013 Alif the Unseen
- 2012 Osama
- 2011 Who Fears Death
- 2009 Tender Morsels
- 2009 The Shadow Year
- 2008 Ysabel
- 2007 Soldier of Sidon
- 2006 Kafka on the Shore
- 2004 Tooth and Claw
- 2003 Ombria in Shadow
- 2003 The Facts of Life
- 2002 The Other Wind
- 2001 Declare
- 2001 Galveston
- 2000 Thraxas
- 1999 The Antelope Wife
- 1998 The Physiognomy
- 1997 Godmother Night
- 1996 The Prestige
- 1995 Towing Jehovah
- 1994 Glimpses
- 1993 Last Call
- 1991 Only Begotten Daughter
- 1991 Thomas the Rhymer
- 1990 Madouc
- 1988 Replay
- 1986 Song of Kali
- 1985 Bridge of Birds
- 1985 Mythago Wood
- 1984 The Dragon Waiting
- 1983 Nifft the Lean
- 1982 Little, Big
- 1981 The Shadow of the Torturer
- 1980 Watchtower
- 1979 Gloriana
- 1978 Our Lady of Darkness
- 1977 Doctor Rat
- 1976 Bid Time Return
- 1975 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
- 2019 Coyote Rage
- 1987 Swan Song
- 2015 The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
- 2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- 2007 Flotsam
- 2002 The Three Pigs
- 1998 Rapunzel
- 1997 Golem
- 1992 Tuesday
- 1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
- 1986 The Polar Express
- 1985 Saint George and the Dragon
- 1982 Jumanji
- 1974 Duffy and the Devil
- 1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- 1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
- 1962 Once a Mouse
- 2012 Life on Mars
- 2007 The Road
- 1998 Blindness
- 1974 Aniara
- 1911 The Blue Bird
- 1998 The Bear Comes Home
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