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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    • Written by: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 2012 winner
    • Best novel
      Among Others claimed the Hugo Award for best novel in 2012. This gripping novel by Welsh-Canadian author Jo Walton tells the story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood. Mor can do magic and talk to faeries. But magic can be dangerous—as she found in a battle for survival against her half-mad mother that left her twin sister dead. Mor gets sent away to a boarding school in England but keeps her powers a secret. Magic is her only escape from loneliness and her complicated reality. Dare she tempt fate again?

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    • Written by: Charlie Jane Anders
    • Narrated by: James MacKenzie
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 2012-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 2012 winner
    • Best novelette
      A science fiction romance features on our list— Six Months, Three Days—which was picked as the best novelette in the 2012 Hugo Awards. This audiobook by Charlie Jane Anders is the story of a love affair between Doug, a man who can see the one true future, and Judy, a woman who can see all the possible futures.

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    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, Connie Willis
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 3
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • 2011 winner
    • Best novel
      Blackout, the third instalment of Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series, is the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 2011. This gripping historical fiction and sci-fi listen follows three young and adventurous historians studying at Oxford University in 2060. They get the opportunity to time travel back to the Second World War to observe their subjects of fascination: heroism at Dunkirk, children evacuated from London and the Blitz. But what if their presence alters the past?

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    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren, Connie Willis (introduction)
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 4
    • Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2010-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 2011 winner
    • Best novel
      All Clear, the fourth and final instalment of Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series, is also the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 2011—because the author originally envisioned Blackout and All Clear as one epic work. Opening where the previous book left off—with three historians from the year 2060 trapped in 1940—it is both the culmination of a time-traveling saga and an affirmation of the power of having faith in loved ones and the universe.

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    • Written by: Paolo Bacigalupi
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2009-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • 2010 winner
    • Best novel
      Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel won the 2010 Hugo Award for best novel. This dystopian story is set in an environmentally devastated 23rd-century Thailand, and genetic engineering has left permanent scars on society. The title character is windup girl Emiko, a genetically-modified human made in Japan as a "companion" for a wealthy executive, and she’s struggling to survive in an environment she wasn’t designed for.

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    • Written by: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2009-05-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • 2010 winner
    • Best novel
      Two novels won the 2010 Hugo Award for best novel, one of which is China Miéville’s The City & The City. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

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    • Written by: Vernor Vinge
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2007-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 2007 winner
    • Best novel
      Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 2007, is an epic adventure that explores the challenges of technological advances in the first quarter of the 21st century. The information revolution triggered a web of conspiracies that could eradicate Western civilization.

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    • Written by: Robert Charles Wilson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Spin, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • 2006 winner
    • Best novel

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    • Written by: Susanna Clarke
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 32 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2005-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • 2005 winner
    • Best novel
      Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2005. This stunning science fiction novel is set in the early 1800s, when England's glorious magical past is a fading memory, except among the rare remaining practicing magicians. Mr. Norrell is one, and he uses his magic cautiously and for the greater good, such as helping the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. His protégé Jonathan Strange has a radically different idea of what England magic should be.

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    • Written by: Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: World of the Five Gods: Chalion, Book 3
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2005-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 2004 winner
    • Best novel
      Paladin of Souls earned Lois McMaster Bujold the Hugo Award for best novel in 2004. The third title from the World of the Five Gods: Chalion series sees Royina Ista, a middle-aged widow, embark on a pilgrimage through the land of Chalion. She starts with few prospects but discovers her power along the way.

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    • The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1
    • Written by: Robert J. Sawyer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
    • Series: Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • 2003 winner
    • Best novel
      Hominids, from Robert J. Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax series, portrays a parallel universe in which the Neanderthals survived, and humans went extinct. The Neanderthals developed a radically different civilization from that of homo sapiens. This spectacular science fiction title won Robert J. Sawyer the Hugo Award for best novel in 2003.

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    • Written by: J.K. Rowling
    • Narrated by: Jim Dale
    • Series: Harry Potter, Book 4, Wizarding World Collection, Book 4
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2015-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,175 ratings
    • 2001 winner
    • Best novel
      J.K. Rowling’s fourth Harry Potter novel won the Hugo Award for dramatic long form in 2001. The Triwizard Tournament is set to be held at Hogwarts. Harry Potter isn’t old enough to compete but dreams of winning the competition. He’s amazed to discover he can participate in the death-defying contest.

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    • Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 2
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • 1999 winner
    • Best novel
      To Say Nothing of the Dog uses time travel to look at how people connect with each other. This gripping sci-fi title by Connie Willis won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1999. Burnt out from time travel to the 1940s, 21st-century history student Ned Henry takes a trip to Victorian England. Rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's trip anything but relaxing.

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    • Written by: Joe Haldeman
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: The Forever War, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 1998 winner
    • Best novel
      War in the 21st century is fought by "soldierboys" in Joe Haldeman’s novel, which won the 1998 Hugo Award for best novel. Remote-controlled mechanical monsters are run by human soldiers who hard-wire their brains together to form each unit. Julian is one of these dedicated soldiers—until he inadvertently kills a young boy.

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    • Written by: Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Series: Mars Trilogy, Book 3
    • Length: 31 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 1997 winner
    • Best novel
      Blue Mars, the final instalment of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1997. The once barren land of Mars is now green and rich with life—plants, animals, and humans. But idyllic Mars is in a state of political upheaval. Some people want to keep the planet green, and some want it to return to a desert world.

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    • Written by: Neal Stephenson
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2001-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • 1996 winner
    • Best novel
      In The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels, which won him the Hugo Award for best novel in 1996. Set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when an innovative interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life and the rest of humanity are on their way to being decoded and reprogrammed.

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