Hugo Award Best Novelette Winners — Complete List (1941–2026)

• Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch

  2026HugoNovelette
• The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea by Naomi Kritzer

  2025HugoNovelette
• The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

  2024HugoNovelette
• The Space-Time Painter by Hai Ya

  2023HugoNovelette

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• Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Palmer

  2022HugoNovelette
• Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin ( Forward Collection (Amazon))

  2020HugoNovelette

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• If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho

  2019HugoNovelette

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• The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer

  2018HugoNovelette
• The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon

  2017HugoNovelette
• Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang

  2016HugoNovelette
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  Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear

  2009HugoNovelette

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  The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang

  2008HugoNovelette

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• The Djinn’s Wife by Ian McDonald

  2007HugoNovelette
• Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle

  2006HugoNovelette

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• The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link

  2005HugoNovelette

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• Legions in Time by Michael Swanwick

  2004HugoNovelette
• Slow Life by Michael Swanwick

  2003HugoNovelette
• Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang

  2002HugoNovelette

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• Millennium Babies by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  2001HugoNovelette

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• 10 16 to 1″ by James Patrick Kelly

  2000HugoNovelette
• Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling

  1999HugoNovelette
• We Will Drink a Fish Together… by Bill Johnson

  1998HugoNovelette
• Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling

  1997HugoNovelette
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  Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly

  1996HugoNovelette

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  The Martian Child by David Gerrold

  1995HugoNovelette

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  Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

  1994HugoNovelette

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• The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan

  1993HugoNovelette
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  Gold by Isaac Asimov

  1992HugoNovelette

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• The Manamouki by Mike Resnick

  1991HugoNovelette

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  Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg

  1990HugoNovelette

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• Schrödinger’s Kitten by George Alec Effinger

  1989HugoNovelette
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  Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1988HugoNovelette

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• Permafrost by Roger Zelazny

  1987HugoNovelette

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• Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison

  1986HugoNovelette

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• Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

  1985HugoNovelette

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  Blood Music by Greg Bear

  1984HugoNovelette

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  Fire Watch by Connie Willis

  1983HugoNovelette

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• Unicorn Variation by Roger Zelazny

  1982HugoNovelette

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• The Cloak and the Staff by Gordon R. Dickson

  1981HugoNovelette
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  Sandkings by George R. R. Martin

  1980HugoNovelette

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• Hunter’s Moon by Poul Anderson

  1979HugoNovelette
• Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge

  1978HugoNovelette

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• The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov

  1977HugoNovelette

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• The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven

  1976HugoNovelette
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans by Harlan Ellison

  1975HugoNovelette
• The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison

  1974HugoNovelette

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  Goat Song by Poul Anderson

  1973HugoNovelette

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• The Sharing of Flesh by Poul Anderson

  1969HugoNovelette

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  Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber

  1968HugoNovelette

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  The Last Castle by Jack Vance

  1967HugoNovelette

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  The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak

  1959HugoNovelette

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• Exploration Team” (alt: “Combat Team”) by Murray Leinster

  1956HugoNovelette
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  The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller

  1955HugoNovelette

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  Earthman, Come Home by James Blish

  1954HugoNovelette

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• The Little Black Bag by C. M. Kornbluth

  1951HugoNovelette

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  First Contact by Murray Leinster

  1946HugoNovelette

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  City by Clifford D. Simak

  1945HugoNovelette

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  Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett

  1944HugoNovelette

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  Foundation by Isaac Asimov

  1943HugoNovelette

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• The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein

  1941HugoNovelette

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