2025 Hugo Award Finalists Announced!

The Hugo Awards finalists for 2025 has been announced!

For readers of science fiction and fantasy, the Hugo Award is a prestigious award for the best books, stories, graphic novels, magazines, video games, art, and more. The awards have been around since 1953, making them one of the longest running literary awards.

The awards are given out by the World Science Fiction Society every year at the annual Worldcon.

Below are the nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards:

Best Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Best Novella

• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
• What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
• Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo

Best Novelette

• The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video by Thomas Ha
• The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea by Naomi Kritzer
• Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
• By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars by Premee Mohamed
• Loneliness Universe by Eugenia Triantafyllou

Best Short Story

• Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
• Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael Jones
• Three Faces of a Beheading by Arkady Martine
• Stitched to Skin Like Family Is by Nghi Vo
• We Will Teach You How to Read by Caroline Yoachim

Best Graphic Story/Comic

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 by Emil Ferris
• We Called Them Giants by Kieron Gillen
• The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
• The Possessed by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North
• The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 by G. Wilson

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

• The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke
• So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
• The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
• Moonstorm by Yoon Lee
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
• Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Zhao

Astounding Award for Best New Writer

• Moniquill Blackgoose
• Bethany Jacobs
• Hannah Kaner
• Angela Liu
• Jared Pechaček
• Tia Tashiro

Congratulations to the nominees!

The winners will be announced at the 83rd Worldcon in Seattle, Washington on August 16th, 2025.

For more information on the Hugo Awards, including the remaining categories, please visit thehugoawards.org.