Living Canon

Hugo Awards 2025: Complete list of winners

The 2025 Hugo Awards have arrived, and this year’s winners represent some of the most inventive voices working in science fiction and fantasy today. Robert Jackson Bennett claimed the Hugo for Best Novel with The Tainted Cup, a work that continues to cement his reputation for intelligent, unsettling narratives. Alongside Bennett’s victory, the awards recognized an impressive range of storytelling across multiple categories—from Ray Nayler’s haunting novella The Tusks of Extinction to Rebecca Roanhorse’s acclaimed Between Earth and Sky series, which took home the Hugo for Best Series. These selections reflect the Hugo Awards’ enduring commitment to honoring the most inventive speculative fiction, whether it appears in traditional novels, shorter forms, or entirely different media.

What’s particularly striking about the 2025 Hugo Awards winners is the diversity of formats and voices reaching the ceremony’s podium. Naomi Kritzer’s novelette The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea, Nghi Vo’s short story Stitched to Skin Like Family Is, and Ryan North’s graphic novel Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way demonstrate how science fiction continues to thrive across mediums and modes of storytelling. Perhaps most notably, Darcie Little Badger’s Sheine Lende secured the Hugo for Best YA Book, signaling the awards’ growing recognition of young adult speculative fiction as a vital part of the genre’s ecosystem.

Below, you’ll find the complete breakdown of all 2025 Hugo Award winners across every major category:

Best Graphic Story

Best Novel

Best Novelette

  • The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea by Naomi Kritzer

Best Novella

Best Series

Best Short Story

  • Stitched to Skin Like Family Is by Nghi Vo

Best YA Book