Award Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

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.

202 books drawn from 12 prize lists, newest first.

• 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• 2025 Newbery Medal
  The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
• 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• 2024 The Booker Prize
  Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• 2024 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
• 2024 Newbery Medal
  The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
• 2024 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
• 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
• 2022 Newbery Medal
  The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
• 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
• 2021 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Network Effect by Martha Wells
• 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction
  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• 2021 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• 2021 Newbery Medal
  When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
• 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
• 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
• 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 2019 The Booker Prize
  The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• 2018 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Circe by Madeline Miller
• 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
• 2017 Newbery Medal
  The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
• 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
• 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction
  The Power by Naomi Alderman
• 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• 2015 Caldecott Medal
  The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
• 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• 2014 Newbery Medal
  Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
• 2014 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
• 2013 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Among Others by Jo Walton
• 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
• 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
• 2011 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• 2011 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Martian by Andy Weir
• 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The City & the City by China Miéville
• 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 2010 Newbery Medal
  When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2008 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• 2008 Caldecott Medal
  The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• 2007 Caldecott Medal
  Flotsam by David Wiesner
• 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Seeker by Jack McDevitt
• 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
• 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
• 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• 2005 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 2004 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 2004 Newbery Medal
  The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
• 2003 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• 2002 Caldecott Medal
  The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
• 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
• 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
• 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
• 2000 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
• 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
• 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Blindness by José Saramago
• 1998 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
• 1998 Caldecott Medal
  Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
• 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 1997 Caldecott Medal
  Golem by David Wisniewski
• 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Slow River by Nicola Griffith
• 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
• 1994 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Moving Mars by Greg Bear
• 1994 Newbery Medal
  The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
• 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 1992 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• 1992 Caldecott Medal
  Tuesday by David Wiesner
• 1991 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
• 1991 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• 1990 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• 1990 Caldecott Medal
  Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
• 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
• 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Uplift War by David Brin
• 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• 1987 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
• 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• 1986 Caldecott Medal
  The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Neuromancer by William Gibson
• 1985 Caldecott Medal
  Saint George and the Dragon by Trina Schart Hyman
• 1985 Newbery Medal
  The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Startide Rising by David Brin
• 1983 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
• 1983 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
• 1982 Caldecott Medal
  Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
• 1982 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
• 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
• 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
• 1980 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
• 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Timescape by Gregory Benford
• 1979 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 1979 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• 1979 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Gateway by Frederik Pohl
• 1978 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Stand by Stephen King
• 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
• 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
• 1976 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• 1976 Newbery Medal
  The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1975 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Aniara by Harry Martinson
• 1974 Caldecott Medal
  Duffy and the Devil by Margot Zemach
• 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• 1973 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
• 1973 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• 1972 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• 1972 Newbery Medal
  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
• 1971 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
• 1971 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Ringworld by Larry Niven
• 1970 Caldecott Medal
  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1969 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• 1969 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
• 1969 Caldecott Medal
  The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Uri Shulevitz
• 1969 Newbery Medal
  The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• 1968 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• 1968 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• 1968 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
• 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
• 1967 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
• 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Dune by Frank Herbert
• 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
• 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
• 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
• 1963 Newbery Medal
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1963 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• 1962 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• 1962 Caldecott Medal
  Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown
• 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Case of Conscience by James Blish
• 1958 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
• 1958 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• 1956 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1955 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
• 1954 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1953 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 1953 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
• 1951 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• 1950 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• 1950 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• 1949 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• 1948 Newbery Medal
  The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
• 1947 Newbery Medal
  Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• 1946 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• 1944 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1937 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1933 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• 1932 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• 1923 Newbery Medal
  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck
• 1898 Classic Books
  The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• 1895 Classic Books
  The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• 1889 Classic Books
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• 1871 Classic Books
  Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
• 1870 Classic Books
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne
• 1865 Classic Books
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• 1864 Classic Books
  Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• 1818 Classic Books
  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley