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Hugo and Nebula Finalist Overlap
Shared Best Novel finalists, measured within the same award year and across the full dataset.
- 23%
- finalists shared in the same year
- 24
- books won both in the same year
- 4
- years with both awards recorded and no common finalist
Books recognized by each award
594 distinct books across all years. This counts a book once, even when the two awards listed it in different years.
209Hugo only
153Both
232Nebula only
153 books (26%) appear on both awards’ lists at any time.
Shared finalists by decade
Same-year overlap: 134 shared title-and-author combinations out of 572 across years with both awards recorded.
—1950s
30%1960s
34%1970s
33%1980s
15%1990s
6%2000s
27%2010s
29%2020s
Finalists by award year
Hugo-only titles are on the left, shared titles in the centre and Nebula-only titles on the right. ★ marks a recorded win. Rows before 1966 have no Nebula ballot.
Hugo onlyBoth listsNebula only
2009Little Brother
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002Passage
2001Midnight Robber
1998City on Fire
1997Starplex
1995Towing Jehovah
1994Beggars in Spain
1978★ Gateway
1966★ Dune
★ Stranger in a Strange LandPlanet of the DamnedSecond EndingDark UniverseTime is the Simplest Thing
1962
1958