Hugo Award for Best Novel

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the finalists on the short-list.   *   Winners and joint winners } || On Wings of Song || '''' Retro-Hugos Between the 1996 Worldcon and 2025 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society had the concept of "Retro-Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos could only be awarded for years after 1939 (the year of the first Worldcon) in which no Hugos were originally awarded. Retro-Hugos were awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–46, 1951, and 1954. ==Authors with multiple wins==

;4 wins • Robert A. Heinlein • Lois McMaster Bujold ;3 wins • Vernor Vinge • Connie Willis • N. K. Jemisin ;2 wins • Fritz Leiber • Roger Zelazny • Ursula K. Le Guin • Arthur C. Clarke • Isaac Asimov • Orson Scott Card • David Brin • C. J. Cherryh • Kim Stanley Robinson • Joe Haldeman • Neil Gaiman • Arkady Martine ==Authors with multiple nominations==

;10 nominations • Robert A. Heinlein • Lois McMaster Bujold ;9 nominations • Robert Silverberg • Robert J. Sawyer ;8 nominations • Larry Niven ;7 nominations • Poul Anderson • David Brin • Charles Stross • John Scalzi ;6 nominations • Orson Scott Card • Kim Stanley Robinson ;5 nominations • Clifford D. Simak • C. J. Cherryh • Greg Bear • Vernor Vinge • Connie Willis • China Miéville • N. K. Jemisin • Ann Leckie • Robert Charles Wilson • Seanan McGuire ;4 nominatons • Roger Zelazny • Frederik Pohl • Arthur C. Clarke • Isaac Asimov • Jerry Pournelle • Anne McCaffrey • John Varley • William Gibson • Dan Simmons • George R. R. Martin • Neal Stephenson ;3 nominations • John Brunner • Samuel R. Delany • Kurt Vonnegut • Ursula K. Le Guin • Frank Herbert • Gene Wolfe • Joe Haldeman • Bruce Sterling • Michael Swanwick • Ken MacLeod • Ian McDonald • Naomi Novik • Yoon Ha Lee • Becky Chambers • Mary Robinette Kowal • Tamsyn Muir • Adrian Tchaikovsky ==See also==