How I Would Vote Now: Hugo Awards (Best Novel)

For fun, I’ve been going over all of the Hugo Award ballots, starting in 1953, and deciding how I would have voted in each of them. In each post, I detail my reasons for voting the way I did, including my thoughts and reactions to each book.

These are the ballots, with links to each of the posts. As I continue to add new posts to this series, I will update this page.

1953

(Abstain)

1955

  1. They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley

1956

  1. The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
  2. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  3. Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
  4. Three to Conquer by Eric Frank Russell
  5. Not This August C.M. Kornbluth

1958

(Abstain)

1959

  1. Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
  2. Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

  1. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  2. No Award
  3. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

1971

1972

  1. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

1973

1974

  1. Protector by Larry Niven
  2. No Award
  3. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  4. The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson

1975

1976

1977

  1. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  2. No Award
  3. Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
  4. Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

(Abstain)

1990

1991

1992

  1. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
  2. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

(Abstain)

2004

2005

  1. No Award
  2. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

2006

  1. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  2. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
  3. No Award
  4. Learning the World by Ken MacLeod

2007

2008

2009

  1. No Award
  2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  3. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

2010

2011

  1. Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis
  2. No Award
  3. Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
  4. The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

2012

  1. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  2. No Award
  3. Among Others by Jo Walton
  4. Embassytown by China Mieville

2013

2014

2015

  1. Skin Game by Jim Butcher
  2. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu, trans.
  3. No Award
  4. The Dark Between Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
  5. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

2016

  1. The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
  2. No Award
  3. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
  4. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

2017

  1. No Award
  2. Death’s End by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu, trans.

2018

  1. Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
  2. No Award

2019

  1. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
  2. No Award
  3. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

2020

  1. No Award

2021

  1. Network Effect by Martha Wells
  2. No Award
  3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

2022

  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  2. No Award

2023

  1. No Award
  2. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  3. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

2024

  1. No Award