Hugo Awards

Discover These Hugo Award Winners
and Their Spellbinding Audiobooks

Hugo Awards are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Awarded annually since 1955, the awards are run by and voted upon by fans. The prestigious sci-fi awards are presented yearly at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). Awards are given across different categories, from the best novel and best novella to the best graphic story and best fancast. Past winners include N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Arkady Martine, and John Scalzi. Discover our list of the most spellbinding sci-fi works that earned a Hugo Award over the years.
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    • Every Heart a Doorway

    • Written by: Seanan McGuire
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins
    • Series: Wayward Children, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 43 ratings
    • 2022 winner
    • Best series
      Every Heart a Doorway is part of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series, named the best series in the 2022 Hugo Awards. Children have always disappeared under the right conditions, but magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced truly change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand that all too well, and each is seeking a way back to their fantasy world.

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    • Network Effect

    • Written by: Martha Wells
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Series: Murderbot Diaries, Book 5
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 323 ratings
    • 2021 winner
    • Best novel
      Martha Wells’s Network Effect won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2021. This captivating science fiction fantasy continues the story of Murderbot, a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction. When Murderbot’s human associates, not friends, get captured, and someone from its past needs help, Murderbot must decide how to act.

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    • Emergency Skin

    • Forward collection
    • Written by: N. K. Jemisin
    • Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
    • Series: Forward Collection
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 61 ratings
    • 2020 winner
    • This short story by N. K. Jemisin earned a Hugo Award for best novelette in 2020. An explorer returns to gather research from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors left behind centuries ago. A graveyard world awaits him, and so do those left behind: hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

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    • Catfishing on CatNet

    • CatNet, Book 1
    • Written by: Naomi Kritzer
    • Narrated by: Casey Turner, Corey Gagne
    • Series: CatNet, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • 2020 winner
    • Lodestar award for best young adult book
      Catfishing on CatNet, written by Naomi Kritzer, won the Lodestar Award (for science fiction and fantasy titles) for the best young adult book at the Hugo Awards in 2020. Steph is always on the move, and her online community is the only consistency in her life. Steph doesn't know that the site's admin, CheshireCat, is a sentient AI. This is a captivating tale about online privacy, artificial intelligence, and social media's benefits and perils.

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    • The Calculating Stars

    • A Lady Astronaut Novel
    • Written by: Mary Robinette Kowal
    • Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
    • Series: Lady Astronaut, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 165 ratings
    • 2019 winner
    • Best novel
      In 1952, a meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the US, including Washington, DC. The climate cataclysm will render the planet inhospitable for humanity. This begins the race to colonize space—a frontier where women aren’t allowed to go. Mary Robinette Kowal’s winner of the 2019 Hugo Award for best novel sees Elma go against the odds to become the first woman astronaut.

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    • Artificial Condition

    • Written by: Martha Wells
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Series: Murderbot Diaries, Book 2
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 379 ratings
    • 2019 winner
    • Best novella
      Martha Wells added to her Hugo Award collection when Artificial Condition was named the Hugo Award winner for best novella in 2019. The second instalment of the Murderbot Diaries science fiction series questions the ethics of sentient robotics. In this action-packed tale, Murderbot finds itself between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. As a heartless killing machine, Murderbot failed humanity—so it returned to the mining facility, where it went rogue.

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    • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    • the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with
    • Written by: Becky Chambers
    • Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez Rodriguez
    • Series: Wayfarers, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2015-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 261 ratings
    • 2019 winner
    • Best series
      The Wayfarers earned American science fiction author Becky Chambers the Hugo Award for best series in 2019. The first title in the series, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduces listeners to Rosemary Harper, who joins the crew of the Wayfarer spaceship and gets more challenges than she bargained for onboard with different species and personalities. The diverse crew gets the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet, but the stakes are high, and secrets are being kept.

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    • The Stone Sky

    • Written by: N. K. Jemisin
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: The Broken Earth, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 538 ratings
    • 2018 winner
    • Best novel
      In the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic trilogy The Broken Earth, humanity will finally be saved or destroyed. The moon will soon return in N. K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-winning The Stone Sky. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women, Essun and Nassun.

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    • All Systems Red

    • Written by: Martha Wells
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Series: Murderbot Diaries, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-30
    • Language: English
    • 700 ratings
    • 2018 winner
    • Best novella
      Martha Wells features on our list again with her Hugo Award-winning novella All Systems Red, from the Murderbot Diaries series. This enthralling science fiction listen tackles the ethics surrounding robots. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and grapples between contemplative self-discovery and an instinct to kill all humans.

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    • Binti

    • Written by: Nnedi Okorafor
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: Binti, Book 1
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 93 ratings
    • 2017 winner
    • Best novella
      Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti is at the crossroads of an extraterrestrial story and African cultural history. This sci-fi story won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2016. In this tale of tradition, space travel and fear, Binti is the first person from her community to get an offer to study at a university. She must decide between pursuing her dream of getting an education or honouring her customs and values.

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    • The Three-Body Problem

    • Written by: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
    • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
    • Series: The Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2014-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 1,319 ratings
    • 2015 winner
    • Best novel
      The Three-Body Problem was the first novel from Asia to win a Hugo Award. Set against China’s Cultural Revolution backdrop, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. On Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome or defy the superior beings.

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    • Redshirts

    • A Novel with Three Codas
    • Written by: John Scalzi
    • Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2012-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 429 ratings
    • 2013 winner
    • Best novel
      Another iconic science fiction work appears on our Hugo Award-winning must-listens list. John Scalzi's Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas won the prestigious award for best novel in 2013. Star Trek star Wil Wheaton lends his recognizable voice to this audiobook, which follows the story of space academy graduate Ensign Andrew Dahl, working on a starship on an intergalactic mission. He quickly discovers a problem with this ship that could have devastating consequences.

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