The Hugo Award for Best Novel is an award given by the World Science Fiction Convention for an SF or Fantasy novel of 40,000 words or more, published or translated into English in the previous calendar year. The novels are nominated and voted for by supporting or attending members of the annual World Con. The finalist is announced at the World con for that year, in a formal ceremony.
The following list includes the short listed nominees for the novel that were listed on the ballot for that year. I’ve marked those who won with an * and a green background
| 2016 | N. K. Jemison* | The Fifth Season | |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | |
| 2016 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Mercy | |
| 2016 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves: A Novel | |
| 2016 | Jim Butcher | The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass | |
| 2016 | N. K. Jemison* | The Fifth Season | |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | |
| 2017 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Mercy | |
| 2017 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves: A Novel | |
| 2017 | Jim Butcher | The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass | |
| 2016 | N. K. Jemison* | The Fifth Season | |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | |
| 2016 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Mercy | |
| 2016 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves: A Novel | |
| 2016 | Jim Butcher | The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass | |
| 2015 | Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator* | The Three Body Problem | |
| 2015 | Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette) | The Goblin Emperor | |
| 2015 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Sword | |
| 2015 | None | No Award | |
| 2015 | Jim Butcher | Skin Game | |
| 2015 | Kevin J. Anderson | The Dark Between the Stars | |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie* | Ancillary Justice | |
| 2014 | Charles Stross | Neptune’s Brood | |
| 2014 | Mira Grant | Parasite | |
| 2014 | Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson | The Wheel of Time | |
| 2014 | Larry Correia | Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles | |
| 2013 | John Scalzi* | Redshirts | |
| 2013 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | |
| 2013 | Mira Grant | Blackout | |
| 2013 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance | |
| 2013 | Saladin Ahmed | Throne of the Crescent Moon | |
| 2012 | Jo Walton* | Among Others | |
| 2012 | George R. R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons | |
| 2012 | Mira Grant | Deadline | |
| 2012 | China Miéville | Embassytown | |
| 2012 | James S. A. Corey | Leviathan Wakes | |
| 2011 | Connie Willis* | Blackout / All Clear | |
| 2011 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Cryoburn | |
| 2011 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | |
| 2011 | Mira Grant | Feed | |
| 2011 | N. K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi* (tie) | The Windup Girl | |
| 2010 | China Miéville* (tie) | The City & the City | |
| 2010 | Cherie Priest | Boneshaker | |
| 2010 | Robert J. Sawyer | Wake | |
| 2010 | Catherynne M. Valente | Palimpsest | |
| 2010 | Robert Charles Wilson | Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America | |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman* | The Graveyard Book | |
| 2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | |
| 2009 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | |
| 2009 | Charles Stross | Saturn’s Children | |
| 2009 | John Scalzi | Zoe’s Tale | |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon* | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | |
| 2008 | John Scalzi | The Last Colony | |
| 2008 | Charles Stross | Halting State | |
| 2008 | Robert J. Sawyer | Rollback | |
| 2008 | Ian McDonald | Brasyl | |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge* | Rainbows End | |
| 2007 | Charles Stross | Glasshouse | |
| 2007 | Naomi Novik | His Majesty’s Dragon | |
| 2007 | Michael F. Flynn | Eifelheim | |
| 2007 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | |
| 2006 | Robert Charles Wilson* | Spin | |
| 2006 | Ken MacLeod | Learning the World | |
| 2006 | George R. R. Martin | A Feast for Crows | |
| 2006 | John Scalzi | Old Man’s War | |
| 2006 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke* | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | |
| 2005 | Ian McDonald | River of Gods | |
| 2005 | Iain M. Banks | The Algebraist | |
| 2005 | Charles Stross | Iron Sunrise | |
| 2005 | China Miéville | Iron Council | |
| 2004 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | Paladin of Souls | |
| 2004 | Dan Simmons | Ilium | |
| 2004 | Charles Stross | Singularity Sky | |
| 2004 | Robert Charles Wilson | Blind Lake | |
| 2004 | Robert J. Sawyer | Humans | |
| 2003 | Robert J. Sawyer* | Hominids | |
| 2003 | David Brin | Kiln People (alternate title: Kil’n People) | |
| 2003 | Michael Swanwick | Bones of the Earth | |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar | |
| 2003 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Years of Rice and Salt | |
| 2002 | Neil Gaiman* | American Gods | |
| 2002 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | |
| 2002 | Connie Willis | Passage | |
| 2002 | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | |
| 2002 | Robert Charles Wilson | The Chronoliths | |
| 2002 | Ken MacLeod | Cosmonaut Keep | |
| 2001 | J. K. Rowling* | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |
| 2001 | George R. R. Martin | A Storm of Swords | |
| 2001 | Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | |
| 2001 | Ken MacLeod | The Sky Road | |
| 2001 | Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge* | A Deepness in the Sky | |
| 2000 | Lois McMaster Bujold | A Civil Campaign | |
| 2000 | Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | |
| 2000 | Greg Bear | Darwin’s Radio | |
| 2000 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | |
| 1999 | Connie Willis* | To Say Nothing of the Dog | |
| 1999 | Mary Doria Russell | Children of God | |
| 1999 | Robert Charles Wilson | Darwinia | |
| 1999 | Bruce Sterling | Distraction | |
| 1999 | Robert J. Sawyer | Factoring Humanity | |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman* | Forever Peace | |
| 1998 | Walter Jon Williams | City on Fire | |
| 1998 | Dan Simmons | The Rise of Endymion | |
| 1998 | Robert J. Sawyer | Frameshift | |
| 1998 | Michael Swanwick | Jack Faust | |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson* | Blue Mars | |
| 1997 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Memory | |
| 1997 | Elizabeth Moon | Remnant Population | |
| 1997 | Robert J. Sawyer | Starplex | |
| 1997 | Bruce Sterling | Holy Fire | |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson* | The Diamond Age | |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | |
| 1996 | David Brin | Brightness Reef | |
| 1996 | Robert J. Sawyer | The Terminal Experiment (alternate title: Hobson’s Choice) | |
| 1996 | Connie Willis | Remake | |
| 1995 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | Mirror Dance | |
| 1995 | John Barnes | Mother of Storms | |
| 1995 | Nancy Kress | Beggars and Choosers | |
| 1995 | Michael Bishop | Brittle Innings | |
| 1995 | James Morrow | Towing Jehovah | |
| 1994 | Kim Stanley Robinson* | Green Mars | |
| 1994 | Greg Bear | Moving Mars | |
| 1994 | Nancy Kress | Beggars in Spain | |
| 1994 | David Brin | Glory Season | |
| 1994 | William Gibson | Virtual Light | |
| 1993 | Vernor Vinge* (tie) | A Fire Upon the Deep | |
| 1993 | Connie Willis* (tie) | Doomsday Book | |
| 1993 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | |
| 1993 | Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | |
| 1993 | John Varley | Steel Beach | |
| 1992 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | Barrayar | |
| 1992 | Emma Bull | Bone Dance | |
| 1992 | Anne McCaffrey | All the Weyrs of Pern | |
| 1992 | Joan D. Vinge | The Summer Queen | |
| 1992 | Orson Scott Card | Xenocide | |
| 1992 | Michael Swanwick | Stations of the Tide | |
| 1991 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | The Vor Game | |
| 1991 | David Brin | Earth | |
| 1991 | Dan Simmons | The Fall of Hyperion | |
| 1991 | Michael P. Kube-McDowell | The Quiet Pools | |
| 1991 | Greg Bear | Queen of Angels | |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons* | Hyperion | |
| 1990 | George Alec Effinger | A Fire in the Sun | |
| 1990 | Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin | |
| 1990 | Poul Anderson | The Boat of a Million Years | |
| 1990 | Sheri S. Tepper | Grass | |
| 1989 | C. J. Cherryh* | Cyteen | |
| 1989 | Orson Scott Card | Red Prophet | |
| 1989 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Falling Free | |
| 1989 | Bruce Sterling | Islands in the Net | |
| 1989 | William Gibson | Mona Lisa Overdrive | |
| 1988 | George Alec Effinger | When Gravity Fails | |
| 1988 | Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son | |
| 1988 | Greg Bear | The Forge of God | |
| 1988 | Gene Wolfe | The Urth of the New Sun | |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card* | Speaker for the Dead | |
| 1987 | Bob Shaw | The Ragged Astronauts | |
| 1987 | William Gibson | Count Zero | |
| 1987 | Vernor Vinge | Marooned in Realtime | |
| 1987 | L. Ron Hubbard | Black Genesis | |
| 1988 | David Brin* | The Uplift War | |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card* | Ender’s Game | |
| 1986 | C. J. Cherryh | Cuckoo’s Egg | |
| 1986 | David Brin | The Postman</td> | |
| 1986 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | Footfall | |
| 1986 | Greg Bear | Blood Music | |
| 1985 | William Gibson* | Neuromancer | |
| 1985 | David R. Palmer | Emergence | |
| 1985 | Vernor Vinge | The Peace War | |
| 1985 | Robert A. Heinlein | Job: A Comedy of Justice | |
| 1985 | Larry Niven | The Integral Trees | |
| 1984 | David Brin* | Startide Rising | |
| 1984 | R. A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | |
| 1984 | John Varley | Millennium | |
| 1984 | Anne McCaffrey | Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern | |
| 1984 | Isaac Asimov | The Robots of Dawn | |
| 1983 | Isaac Asimov* | Foundation’s Edge | |
| 1983 | C. J. Cherryh | The Pride of Chanur | |
| 1983 | Arthur C. Clarke | 2010: Odyssey Two | |
| 1983 | Robert A. Heinlein | Friday | |
| 1983 | Donald Kingsbury | Courtship Rite | |
| 1983 | Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | |
| 1982 | C. J. Cherryh* | Downbelow Station | |
| 1982 | Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | |
| 1982 | Julian May | The Many Colored Land | |
| 1982 | Clifford D. Simak | Project Pope | |
| 1982 | John Crowley | Little, Big | |
| 1981 | Joan D. Vinge* | The Snow Queen | |
| 1981 | Robert Silverberg | Lord Valentine’s Castle | |
| 1981 | Larry Niven | The Ringworld Engineers | |
| 1981 | Frederik Pohl | Beyond the Blue Event Horizon | |
| 1981 | John Varley | Wizard | |
| 1979 | Tom Reamy | Blind Voices | |
| 1980 | Arthur C. Clarke* | The Fountains of Paradise | |
| 1980 | John Varley | Titan | |
| 1980 | Frederik Pohl | Jem | |
| 1980 | Patricia A. McKillip | Harpist in the Wind | |
| 1980 | Thomas Disch | On Wings of Song | |
| 1979 | Vonda N. McIntyre* | Dreamsnake | |
| 1979 | Anne McCaffrey | The White Dragon | |
| 1979 | C. J. Cherryh | The Faded Sun: Kesrith | |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl* | Gateway | |
| 1978 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Forbidden Tower | |
| 1978 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | Lucifer’s Hammer | |
| 1978 | Gordon R. Dickson | Time Storm | |
| 1978 | George R. R. Martin | Dying of the Light | |
| 1977 | Kate Wilhelm* | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | |
| 1977 | Joe Haldeman | Mindbridge | |
| 1977 | Frank Herbert | Children of Dune | |
| 1977 | Frederik Pohl | Man Plus | |
| 1977 | Robert Silverberg | Shadrach in the Furnace | |
| 1976 | Joe Haldeman* | The Forever War | |
| 1976 | Roger Zelazny | Doorways in the Sand | |
| 1976 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | Inferno | |
| 1976 | Alfred Bester | The Computer Connection (alternate title: The Indian Giver) | |
| 1976 | Robert Silverberg | The Stochastic Man | |
| 1975 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | The Dispossessed | |
| 1975 | Poul Anderson | Fire Time | |
| 1975 | Philip K. Dick | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | |
| 1975 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | The Mote in God’s Eye | |
| 1975 | Christopher Priest | Inverted World | |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke* | Rendezvous with Rama | |
| 1974 | Robert A. Heinlein | Time Enough for Love | |
| 1974 | Larry Niven | Protector | |
| 1974 | Poul Anderson | The People of the Wind | |
| 1974 | David Gerrold | The Man Who Folded Himself | |
| 1973 | David Gerrold | When Harlie Was One | |
| 1973 | Poul Anderson | There Will Be Time | |
| 1973 | Robert Silverberg | The Book of Skulls | |
| 1973 | Robert Silverberg | Dying Inside | |
| 1973 | Clifford D. Simak | A Choice of Gods | |
| 1973 | Isaac Asimov* | The Gods Themselves | |
| 1972 | Philip José Farmer* | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | |
| 1972 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Lathe of Heaven | |
| 1972 | Anne McCaffrey | Dragonquest | |
| 1972 | Roger Zelazny | Jack of Shadows | |
| 1972 | Robert Silverberg | A Time of Changes | |
| 1971 | Larry Niven* | Ringworld | |
| 1971 | Poul Anderson | Tau Zero | |
| 1971 | Robert Silverberg | Tower of Glass | |
| 1971 | Wilson Tucker | The Year of the Quiet Sun | |
| 1971 | Hal Clement | Star Light | |
| 1970 | Robert Silverberg | Up the Line | |
| 1970 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five | |
| 1970 | Norman Spinrad | Bug Jack Barron | |
| 1970 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | The Left Hand of Darkness | |
| 1969 | John Brunner* | Stand on Zanzibar | |
| 1969 | Alexei Panshin | Rite of Passage | |
| 1969 | Samuel R. Delany | Nova | |
| 1969 | R. A. Lafferty | Past Master | |
| 1969 | Clifford D. Simak | The Goblin Reservation | |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny* | Lord of Light | |
| 1968 | Samuel R. Delany | The Einstein Intersection | |
| 1968 | Piers Anthony | Chthon | |
| 1968 | Chester Anderson | The Butterfly Kid | |
| 1968 | Robert Silverberg | Thorns | |
| 1967 | Robert A. Heinlein* | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | |
| 1967 | Samuel R. Delany | Babel-17 | |
| 1967 | Randall Garrett | Too Many Magicians | |
| 1967 | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | |
| 1967 | James H. Schmitz | The Witches of Karres | |
| 1967 | Thomas Burnett Swann | Day of the Minotaur | |
| 1966 | Frank Herbert* (tie) | Dune | |
| 1966 | Roger Zelazny* (tie) | . . . And Call Me Conrad (alternate title: This Immortal) | |
| 1966 | John Brunner | The Squares of the City | |
| 1966 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (serialized edition) | |
| 1966 | Edward E. Smith | Skylark | |
| 1965 | John Brunner | The Whole Man | |
| 1965 | Edgar Pangborn | Davy | |
| 1965 | Cordwainer Smith | The Planet Buyer (alternate title: The Boy Who Bought Old Earth) | |
| 1965 | Fritz Leiber* | The Wanderer | |
| 1964 | Clifford D. Simak* | Here Gather the Stars (alternate title: Way Station) | |
| 1964 | Robert A. Heinlein | Glory Road | |
| 1964 | Andre Norton | Witch World | |
| 1964 | Frank Herbert | Dune | |
| 1964 | Kurt Vonnegut | Cat’s Cradle | |
| 1963 | Philip K. Dick* | The Man in the High Castle | |
| 1963 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Sword of Aldones | |
| 1963 | Arthur C. Clarke | A Fall of Moondust | |
| 1963 | H. Beam Piper | Little Fuzzy | |
| 1963 | Jean Bruller | Sylva | |
| 1962 | Robert A. Heinlein* | Stranger in a Strange Land | |
| 1962 | Daniel F. Galouye | Dark Universe | |
| 1962 | Harry Harrison | Planet of the Damned (alternate title: Sense of Obligation) | |
| 1962 | Clifford D. Simak | The Fisherman (alternate title: Time Is the Simplest Thing) | |
| 1962 | James White | Second Ending | |
| 1961 | Walter M. Miller, Jr.* | A Canticle for Leibowitz | |
| 1961 | Poul Anderson | The High Crusade | |
| 1961 | Algis Budrys | Rogue Moon | |
| 1961 | Harry Harrison | Deathworld | |
| 1961 | Theodore Sturgeon | Venus Plus X | |
| 1960 | Robert A. Heinlein* | Starship Troopers | |
| 1960 | Gordon R. Dickson | Dorsai! (alternate title: The Genetic General) | |
| 1960 | Murray Leinster | The Pirates of Ersatz | |
| 1960 | Mark Phillips | That Sweet Little Old Lady (alternate title: Brain Twister) | |
| 1960 | Kurt Vonnegut | The Sirens of Titan | |
| 1959 | James Blish* | A Case of Conscience | |
| 1959 | Poul Anderson | We Have Fed Our Sea (alternate title: The Enemy Stars) | |
| 1959 | Algis Budrys | Who? | |
| 1959 | Robert A. Heinlein | Have Space Suit — Will Travel | |
| 1959 | Robert Sheckley | Time Killer (alternate title: Immortality, Inc.) | |
| 1958 | Fritz Leiber* | The Big Time | |
| 1956 | Robert A. Heinlein* | Double Star | |
| 1955 | Mark Clifton and Frank Riley* | They’d Rather Be Right (alternate title: The Forever Machine) | |
| 1953 | Alfred Bester* | The Demolished Man |