Book prize

Hugo Award for Best Novella winners

10 winners and 17 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The Hugo Award for Best Novella has 10 winners we hold, from 1981 to 2025, and 17 nominees. The most recent winner here is Thornhedge (2024), first published by Doherty Associates, Tom in 2023. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2024 Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
  2. 2022 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers First edition: Tor.com 2021
  3. 2021 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo First edition: Tor 2020
  4. 2018 All Systems Red by Martha Wells First edition: Tor.com 2017
  5. 2017 Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2016
  6. 2016 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2015
  7. 2013 The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson First edition: Tachyon 2012
  8. 2011 The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang First edition: Subterranean Press 2010
  9. 2003 Coraline by Neil Gaiman First edition not yet identified
  10. 1991 The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman First edition: Morrow 1990
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2025 What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher First edition: Tor Nightfire 2024
  2. 2022 Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky First edition not yet identified
  3. 2021 Finna by Nino Cipri First edition: Tor.com 2020
  4. 2021 Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2020
  5. 2021 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey First edition: Tor.com 2020
  6. 2020 Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2019
  7. 2020 The Deep by Daveed Diggs First edition: Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio 2019
  8. 2020 To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  9. 2019 The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
  10. 2019 The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard First edition: Subterranean Press 2018
  11. 2018 Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2017
  12. 2017 The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle First edition not yet identified
  13. 2016 Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Tachyon Publications 2015
  14. 2010 The God Engines by John Scalzi First edition: Subterranean Press 2009
  15. 2005 Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition not yet identified
  16. 1982 True Names by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
  17. 1981 Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin First edition not yet identified

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