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Award-entry Timeline
2026
13 award entries
2 winning entries
7 women · 5 men · 1 non-binary
2025
12 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 7 men
Hugo
2024
12 award entries
2 winning entries
7 women · 4 men · 1 non-binary
Hugo
2023
12 award entries
2 winning entries
8 women · 4 men
Hugo
Award result · 2023R.F. Kuang’s Babel wins the Nebula for Best Novel.
Eligibility · Eligibility exclusionsThe 2023 nomination statistics, released in January 2024, mark several works as ineligible. Babel was excluded from the Best Novel final ballot.
Published nomination statistics ↗2022
11 award entries
2 winning entries
6 women · 4 men · 1 non-binary
Hugo
2021
12 award entries
2 winning entries
11 women · 0 men · 1 non-binary
Award result · 2021Martha Wells’s Network Effect wins both Best Novel awards.
2020
12 award entries
2 winning entries
11 women · 1 men
Hugo
2019
12 award entries
2 winning entries
9 women · 2 men · 1 non-binary
Hugo
2018
13 award entries
2 winning entries
8 women · 4 men · 1 non-binary
Award result · 2018N.K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky wins the Hugo for Best Novel, following The Fifth Season in 2016 and The Obelisk Gate in 2017.
2017
11 award entries
2 winning entries
8 women · 3 men
Hugo
Rules · New rules take effectThe Helsinki Worldcon uses E Pluribus Hugo. Its administrators publish a comparison with the previous counting system.
2017 reports ↗Rules · 2017E Pluribus Hugo changes how nominations are counted. The normal shortlist expands from five to six finalists.
Official explanation ↗2016
12 award entries
2 winning entries
7 women · 5 men
Award result · 2016N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season wins the Hugo for Best Novel.
Rules · New nomination rules ratifiedThe WSFS Business Meeting ratifies E Pluribus Hugo and changes the normal number of finalists from five to six, effective in 2017.
Official explanation ↗2015
11 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 7 men
Award result · 2015The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu, wins the Hugo for Best Novel.
Campaign · Sad Puppies publishes a slateBrad R. Torgersen publishes the Sad Puppies 3 recommendations, including five choices for Best Novel.
Campaign’s published list ↗Award result · No Award in five categoriesVoters choose No Award in five categories: Best Novella; Best Short Story; Best Related Work; Best Editor, Short Form; and Best Editor, Long Form. The Three-Body Problem wins Best Novel.
2015 results ↗2014
13 award entries
2 winning entries
8 women · 5 men
Award result · 2014Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice wins both Best Novel awards.
Award result · Warbound reaches the final ballotLarry Correia’s Warbound is a Hugo Best Novel finalist. Ancillary Justice wins.
2014 results ↗2013
11 award entries
2 winning entries
6 women · 5 men
Campaign · Correia asks for nominationsLarry Correia asks readers to join Worldcon and nominate Monster Hunter Legion for the Hugo for Best Novel.
Correia’s campaign post ↗2012
11 award entries
2 winning entries
6 women · 5 men
2011
13 award entries
4 winning entries
11 women · 2 men
2010
12 award entries
3 winning entries
4 women · 8 men
Award result · 2010China Miéville’s The City & the City and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl tie for the Hugo for Best Novel.
2009
11 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 10 men
2008
10 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 9 men
2007
11 award entries
2 winning entries
3 women · 8 men
2006
11 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 10 men
2005
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
2004
11 award entries
2 winning entries
6 women · 5 men
2003
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
2002
14 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 9 men
2001
11 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 6 men
Hugo
Award result · 2001J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wins the Hugo for Best Novel.
2000
11 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 7 men
Hugo
1999
11 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 6 men
1998
12 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 8 men
1997
11 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 6 men
1996
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
1995
12 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 8 men
1994
10 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 8 men
1993
11 award entries
3 winning entries
6 women · 5 men
Award result · 1993Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book tie for the Hugo for Best Novel.
1992
12 award entries
2 winning entries
7 women · 5 men
Award result · 1992Lois McMaster Bujold’s Barrayar wins the Hugo for Best Novel.
1991
11 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 7 men
1990
11 award entries
2 winning entries
3 women · 8 men
1989
12 award entries
2 winning entries
3 women · 9 men
1988
11 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 10 men
1987
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
1986
12 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 11 men
Award result · 1986Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game wins both Best Novel awards. Speaker for the Dead does the same in 1987.
1985
11 award entries
2 winning entries
0 women · 11 men
Award result · 1985William Gibson’s Neuromancer wins both Best Novel awards.
1984
11 award entries
2 winning entries
3 women · 8 men
Hugo
1983
12 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 11 men
Hugo
1982
11 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 7 men
1981
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
Hugo
1980
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
1979
9 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 4 men
1978
10 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 9 men
1977
11 award entries
2 winning entries
3 women · 8 men
1976
23 award entries
2 winning entries
5 women · 18 men
Nebula
Award result · 1976Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War wins both Best Novel awards.
1975
9 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 7 men
Hugo
Award result · 1975Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed wins both Best Novel awards.
1974
10 award entries
2 winning entries
0 women · 10 men
Hugo
1973
13 award entries
2 winning entries
0 women · 13 men
Hugo
1972
11 award entries
2 winning entries
4 women · 7 men
1971
11 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 10 men
1970
11 award entries
2 winning entries
2 women · 9 men
Award result · 1970Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness wins both Best Novel awards.
1969
12 award entries
2 winning entries
1 women · 11 men
1968
10 award entries
2 winning entries
0 women · 10 men
Award result · 1968Anne McCaffrey wins the Hugo for Best Novella for “Weyr Search.” This is a short-fiction award, outside the Best Novel dataset.
1968 Hugo results ↗1967
9 award entries
3 winning entries
0 women · 9 men
Hugo
1966
17 award entries
3 winning entries
0 women · 17 men
Award result · 1966Frank Herbert’s Dune and Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal tie for the Hugo for Best Novel.
Award result · 1966Frank Herbert’s Dune wins Best Novel at the first Nebula ceremony, held in 1966. The SFWA archive labels this the 1965 award.
SFWA history ↗1965
4 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 4 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1964
5 award entries
1 winning entries
1 women · 4 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1963
5 award entries
1 winning entries
1 women · 4 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1962
5 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 5 men
Hugo
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1961
5 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 5 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1960
5 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 5 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1959
5 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 5 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
Rules · 1959The Hugos introduce a separate nominations ballot followed by a final vote.
Hugo voting history ↗1958
1 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 1 men
Hugo
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1957
0 award entries
0 winning entries
0 women · 0 men
Hugo
No Best Novel award recorded
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1956
5 award entries
1 winning entries
1 women · 4 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1955
1 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 1 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1954
0 award entries
0 winning entries
0 women · 0 men
Hugo
No Best Novel award recorded
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
1953
1 award entries
1 winning entries
0 women · 1 men
Nebula
No Best Novel award recorded
Award result · 1953Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man wins the first Hugo for Best Novel.