Literature quiz
Hugo Award for Best Novel winners
75 winning novels from 1953 to 2026, each with its title as your hint. An author who won more than once fills every one of their rows at a stroke.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 75 answers
- Limit
- 11:15
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 75
- Time limit
- 11:15
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name the author of every Hugo winner.
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | The Demolished Man | Not found yet |
| 1955 | They'd Rather Be Right | Not found yet |
| 1956 | Double Star | Not found yet |
| 1958 | The Big Time | Not found yet |
| 1959 | A Case of Conscience | Not found yet |
| 1960 | Starship Troopers | Not found yet |
| 1961 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Not found yet |
| 1962 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Not found yet |
| 1963 | The Man in the High Castle | Not found yet |
| 1964 | Way Station | Not found yet |
| 1965 | The Wanderer | Not found yet |
| 1966 | This Immortal | Not found yet |
| 1966 | Dune | Not found yet |
| 1967 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Not found yet |
| 1968 | Lord of Light | Not found yet |
| 1969 | Stand on Zanzibar | Not found yet |
| 1970 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Not found yet |
| 1971 | Ringworld | Not found yet |
| 1972 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Not found yet |
| 1973 | The Gods Themselves | Not found yet |
| 1974 | Rendezvous With Rama | Not found yet |
| 1975 | The Dispossessed | Not found yet |
| 1976 | The Forever War | Not found yet |
| 1977 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Not found yet |
| 1978 | Gateway | Not found yet |
| 1979 | Dreamsnake | Not found yet |
| 1980 | The Fountains of Paradise | Not found yet |
| 1981 | The Snow Queen | Not found yet |
| 1982 | Downbelow Station | Not found yet |
| 1983 | Foundation's Edge | Not found yet |
| 1984 | Startide Rising | Not found yet |
| 1985 | Neuromancer | Not found yet |
| 1986 | Ender's Game | Not found yet |
| 1987 | Speaker for the Dead | Not found yet |
| 1988 | The Uplift War | Not found yet |
| 1989 | Cyteen | Not found yet |
| 1990 | Hyperion | Not found yet |
| 1991 | The Vor Game | Not found yet |
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Barrayar | Not found yet |
| 1993 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Not found yet |
| 1993 | Doomsday Book | Not found yet |
| 1994 | Green Mars | Not found yet |
| 1995 | Mirror Dance | Not found yet |
| 1996 | The Diamond Age | Not found yet |
| 1997 | Blue Mars | Not found yet |
| 1998 | Forever Peace | Not found yet |
| 1999 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Not found yet |
| 2000 | A Deepness in the Sky | Not found yet |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Not found yet |
| 2002 | American Gods | Not found yet |
| 2003 | Hominids | Not found yet |
| 2004 | Paladin of Souls | Not found yet |
| 2005 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Not found yet |
| 2006 | Spin | Not found yet |
| 2007 | Rainbows End | Not found yet |
| 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Not found yet |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Not found yet |
| 2010 | The City & The City | Not found yet |
| 2010 | The Windup Girl | Not found yet |
| 2011 | Blackout/All Clear | Not found yet |
| 2012 | Among Others | Not found yet |
| 2013 | Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas | Not found yet |
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice | Not found yet |
| 2015 | The Three Body Problem | Not found yet |
| 2016 | The Fifth Season | Not found yet |
| 2017 | The Obelisk Gate | Not found yet |
| 2018 | The Stone Sky | Not found yet |
| 2019 | The Calculating Stars | Not found yet |
| 2020 | A Memory Called Empire | Not found yet |
| 2021 | Network Effect | Not found yet |
| 2022 | A Desolation Called Peace | Not found yet |
| 2023 | Nettle & Bone | Not found yet |
| 2024 | Some Desperate Glory | Not found yet |
| 2025 | The Tainted Cup | Not found yet |
| 2026 | A Drop of Corruption | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The Hugo Awards are presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention. The first Best Novel award went to Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man in 1953.
- No Best Novel award was given in 1954 or 1957.
- Two novels tied in 1966, in 1993 and in 2010.
- The 1958 award was for the best novel or novelette, and went to The Big Time by Fritz Leiber.
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