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Books that won the big prizes

Winners we know about across 6 awards. 51 books in total — 2 already on your shelf.

Award
Year
Ownership

Booker

2025Fiction
Flesh
David Szalay
2024Fiction
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
2023Fiction
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
2022Fiction
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
2021Fiction
The Promise
Damon Galgut
2020Fiction
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

Hugo

2025Best Novel
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
On the shelf
2025Best Novella
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Sofia Samatar
2024Best Novel
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
2024Best Novella
Thornhedge
T. Kingfisher
2024Best Series
The Last Binding
Freya Marske
2024Lodestar (YA)
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Moniquill Blackgoose
2023Best Novel
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
2023Best Novella
Even Though I Knew the End
C.L. Polk
2023Best Series
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2023Lodestar (YA)
Akata Woman
Nnedi Okorafor
2022Best Novel
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
2022Best Novella
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
2022Best Series
Wayward Children
Seanan McGuire
2022Lodestar (YA)
The Last Graduate
Naomi Novik
2021Best Novel
Network Effect
Martha Wells
2021Best Novella
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Nghi Vo
2021Best Series
The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
2021Lodestar (YA)
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher
2020Best Novel
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
2020Best Novella
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
2020Best Series
The Expanse
James S.A. Corey
2020Lodestar (YA)
Catfishing on CatNet
Naomi Kritzer

National Book Award

2024Fiction
James
Percival Everett
2023Fiction
Blackouts
Justin Torres
2022Fiction
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
2021Fiction
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
2020Fiction
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Nebula

2025Best Novel
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
On the shelf
2024Best Novel
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
2023Best Novel
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
R.F. Kuang
2022Best Novel
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
2021Best Novel
Network Effect
Martha Wells
2020Best Novel
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker

Newbery

2025Children's
The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly
2024Children's
The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers
2023Children's
Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson
2022Children's
The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera
2021Children's
When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller

Pulitzer

2025Fiction
James
Percival Everett
2024Fiction
Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips
2023Fiction
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
2023Fiction
Trust
Hernan Diaz
2022Fiction
The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
2021Fiction
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
2020Fiction
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead