The Hugo Award, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society and is determined by nominations from and a popular vote of its membership. To view a complete listing of Hugo Award winners click here.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union By Chabon, Michael 2007/05 - HarperCollins 9780007149827 Check the Library Catalog National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended Fiction BookPage Notable Title 2008 ALA Notable The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II. ...More

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction By Prucher, Jeff Wolfe, Gene 2007/05 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780195305678 Check the Library Catalog The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time. More than just a useful reference and an entertaining browse, the book documents the enduring legacy of science fiction writers and fans. ...More

Rainbows End By Vinge, Vernor 2006/05 - Tor Books 9780312856847 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2007 Hugo Awards BookPage Notable Title Four-time Hugo Award winner Vinge sets his newest science-fiction thriller in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. In this new information age, the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions. ...More

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Phillips, Julie 2006/08 - St. Martin's Press 9780312203856 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2007 Hugo Awards Winner - 2007 ALA Notable Non Fiction Selection BookPage Notable Title Tiptree burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Then the cover was blown: the author was actually a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon--world traveler, debutante, chicken farmer, CIA agent, and experimental psychologist. This fascinating biography is based on full access to her papers. ...More

Spin By Wilson, Robert Charles 2005/04 - Tor Books 0765309386 Check the Library Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Winner - 2006 Hugo Awards In this spectacular new SF novel of immense scope, an artificial, alien barrier is placed around the Earth, the moon and stars disappear, and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet. ...More

Inside Job By Willis, Connie 2005/06 - Subterranean Press 1596060247 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2006 Hugo Awards Connie Willis is the master of the science fiction novella, from seminal efforts such as Blued Moon, Fire Watch, The Last of the Winnebagos, and beyond. Inside Job takes its place on that permanent shelf, a tale of spiritualists, séances, skeptics, and a love that just might be able to rise about it all. ...More

Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop By Wilhelm, Kate 2000/04 - Small Beer Press 193152016X Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2006 Hugo Awards For 27 years, Kate Wilhelm and her husband, Damon Knight, taught at the Clarion Writers' Workshop, an intensive and ambitious six-week writing program for novice writers, known to participants as "boot camp for writers." Part memoir and part writing manual, Storyteller is Wilhelm's account of the history of the program and her years there with Damon as mentors and instructors. ...More

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell By Clarke, Susanna 2004/09 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1582344167 Check the Library Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Winner - 2005 Hugo Awards A Fiction Bestseller - 2004 Centuries ago, magic existed in England; but now, at the beginning of the 19th century, England no longer believes in it. Until the reclusive Mr. Norrell appears. Persuaded that he must help the government in the war against Napoleon, Mr. Norrell goes to London and takes charming, rich and arrogant Jonathan Strange for a pupil. Together, they dazzle the country with their feats until the partnership turns to rivalry. ...More

Paladin of Souls By Bujold, Lois McMaster 2003/10 - Eos 0380979020 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2004 Hugo Awards Winner - 2004 Nebula Award From multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Lois McMaster Bujold comes a sequel to her popular and critically acclaimed The Curse of Chalion--a stunning new epic fantasy that tells of a queen's quest to save her land--and her soul. ...More

Hominids By Sawyer, Robert J. 2002/05 - Tor Books 0312876920 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2003 Hugo Awards "Hominids, " the first book of the Neanderthal Parallax, is a story of parallel worlds: this one, and another in which Neanderthals become the dominant intelligent species. ...More

American Gods By Gaiman, Neil 2001/07 - William Morrow & Company 0380973650 Check the Library Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Winner - 2002 Hugo Awards Winner - 2002 Nebula Award A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. ...More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By Rowling, J. K. 2000/01 - Scholastic 0439139597 Check the Library Catalog CCBC Choices - 2001 Winner - 2001 Hugo Awards It's the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part saga of a young wizard's coming of age. The thickest. The juiciest yet. Harry Potter turns fourteen. But will all his friends? Rumors have persisted that one of the characters may not see the conclusion of this novel, something the author has refused either to confirm or deny. But we who love Ron, Hermione, Hagrid...even pitiful Neville Longbottom...wait anxiously to see if they will make it through safely. No one's fate is certain when Volde -- excuse me -- He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is part of the picture. ...More

A Deepness in the Sky By Vinge, Vernor 2000/01 - Tor Books 0812536355 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2000 Hugo Awards A renowned professor of computer science and mathematics pens a spellbinding novel about two rival trading societies--one good and one evil--that are awaiting a planet's 200-year awakening into a Golden Age of technology so they can pursue commerce with the planet's inhabitants. ...More

To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last By Willis, Connie 1998/12 - Bantam Books 9780553575385 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1999 Hugo Awards It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right. ...More

Forever Peace By Haldeman, Joe 2003/01 - Ace Books 0441005667 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1998 Nebula Awards Winner - 1998 Hugo Awards 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one--not a terrifying prospect, but a tempting one. Featured on the "Locus" Recommended Reading list and selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the best books of the year. ...More