# The Hugo Award winners for Best Novel of the 2000s

The ten novels that won the Hugo for Best Novel from 2000 to 2009, from Vernor Vinge to Neil Gaiman.

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- Jul 31, 2024 · Shannon Harris
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## Top 10

1. **Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2005. Two magicians bring English magic back during the Napoleonic Wars.
2. **A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2000. A prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, set around a strange on-off star.
3. **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J. K. Rowling** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2001. The Triwizard Tournament; the only Harry Potter book to win the Hugo.
4. **Hominids — Robert J. Sawyer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2003. A Neanderthal physicist crosses from a parallel Earth.
5. **Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2004. A dowager royina on a pilgrimage in the world of Chalion.
6. **Spin — Robert Charles Wilson** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2006. One night the stars vanish behind a barrier around the Earth.
7. **Rainbows End — Vernor Vinge** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2007. An old poet relearns life in an augmented-reality future.
8. **The Yiddish Policemen's Union — Michael Chabon** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2008. A detective in an imagined Jewish homeland in Alaska.
9. **The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2009. A boy raised by ghosts in a cemetery.
10. **American Gods — Neil Gaiman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. Old gods brought by immigrants fight new gods of technology.

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