2021 Hugo Winners and Finalists

1) Network Effect

Author

Wells, Martha

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 5

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Best Novel--Winner

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WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!

The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.
An Amazon Best of the Year So Far Pick
Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Book Riot | Polygon

"I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can't recommend it enough."

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2) The empress of salt and fortune

Author

Vo, Nghi

Series

Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 1

Notes

Best Novella--Winner

3) All systems red

Author

Wells, Martha

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 1

Notes

Winner--Best Series

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...

4) Beowulf: a new translation

Author

Headley, Maria Dahvana

Notes

Winner--Best Related Work

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eAudiobook

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"A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"-- Provided by publisher.

5) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Author

Butler, Octavia E

Series

Parable books volume 1

Notes

Winner--Best Graphic Story or Comic

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The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America's future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that...

6) A wizard's guide to defensive baking

Author

Kingfisher, T

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Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book--Winner

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Mona is fourteen-year-old and she's not like the other wizards tasked with defending their city. She lacks the ability to control storms or speak to water. Her totem is a slice of sourdough, and her magic only works with bread, but she has lived a comfortable life working in her aunt's bakery and making the gingerbread men dance. But one day, Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body in the bakery. An assassin stalks the streets...

7) The city we became

Author

Jemisin, N. K

Series

Great cities trilogy volume 1

Notes

Best Novel--Finalist

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...

8) piranesi

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

9) Black sun

Author

Roanhorse, Rebecca

Series

Between earth and sky volume 1

Notes

Best Novel--Finalist

Formats:

Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose...

10) The relentless moon

Author

Kowal, Mary Robinette

Series

Lady astronaut novels volume 3

Notes

Best Novel--Finalist

11) Harrow the Ninth

Author

Muir, Tamsyn

Series

Ninth House volume 2

Notes

Best Novel--Finalist

Formats:

Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark's health is failing, her magic refuses to cooperate, her sword makes her throw up, and even her mind threatens to betray her. What's...

12) Ring Shout

Author

Clark, P. Djèlí

Notes

Best Novella--Finalist

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In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die. Standing in their way are Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foulmouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter....

13) Come tumbling down

Author

McGuire, Seanan

Series

Wayward children volume 5

Notes

Best Novella--Finalist

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When we Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...

14) Upright women wanted

Author

Gailey, Sarah

Notes

Best Novella--Finalist

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"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the...

15) finna

This entry no longer exists in the catalog

16) Riot baby

Author

Onyebuchi, Tochi

Notes

Best Novella--Finalist

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both...

17) The Calculating Stars

Author

Kowal, Mary Robinette

Series

Lady astronaut novels volume 1

Notes

Best Series--Finalist

Formats:

Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eBook, Kindle

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Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, 2019 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars."
Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Locus Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist 2019 Campbell Memorial Award
Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best

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18) Rosemary and Rue

Author

McGuire, Seanan

Series

October Daye novels volume 1

Notes

Best Series--Finalist

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

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Celebrating ten years of the Hugo-nominated and New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series comes a new anniversary edition of the book that started it all, with a new bonus novella.
The world of Faerie never disappeared; it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings...

19) The collapsing empire

Author

Scalzi, John

Series

Interdependency novels volume 1

Notes

Best Series--Finalist

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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"Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against...

20) The Poppy War

Author

Kuang, R. F

Series

Poppy war volume 1

Notes

Best Series--Finalist

Formats:

Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"When war orphan Rin aced the Keju-the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the academies-she surprised everyone: test officials, the guardians who wanted to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise, and even herself. But being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not easy at Sinegard, the most elite military school in Nikan. Targeted by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers...

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2021 Hugo Winners and Finalists