Recs if you like Shroud...

In honour of the 2026 nominations, this list compiles all the nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel from 2010 - 2026.

All horrors lurking in the deep space

Finalists for the novel and novella categories of the 2026 Hugo Award, as announced in April 2026

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Sci fi and fantasy that's clever, funny, high-stakes, and fast-paced.

Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Award for BEST NOVEL and BEST NOVELLA, presented by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS).

This is the novels, novellas, novelettes (if they exists on Pagebound), first book of the series and one book from the best author that are nominated for a Hugo Award in 2026. I personally need an overview on what to catch on for the votes (closing beginning of August :))

Best Novel Nominees: A Drop of Corruption • Death of the Author • Shroud • 🏆 The Everlasting • The Incandescent • The Raven Scholar

Best Novella Nominees: Automatic Noodle • Cinder House • Murder by Memory • 🌌 🏆 The River Has Roots • The Summer War • What Stalks the Deep

Legend: 🏆 Winner • 🌌 Nebula Award Winner

Pulled from Reactor Magazine's (Tor.com) announcement. See the article for a list of short stories as well.

Works not in database: We Begin Where Infinity Ends - Somto Ihezue The Tin Man's Ghost - Ray Nayler The Millay Illusion - Sarah Pinsker When He Calls Your Name - Catherynne M. Valente The Twenty-One Second God - Peter Watts Night & Day - ed. Ellen Datlow Starling House - Alix E. Harrow (ILLUSTRATED EDITION, ILLUS. BY ROVINA CAI) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3 (graphic adaptation)

Note: The Revelation Space Collection by Alastair Reynolds is actually for volumes 1 & 2

Standalones and First-in-series for anyone interested in exploring what non-human biological intelligences could potentially look like

Also for anyone tired of the overabundance of the "human-with-a-horn-or-two = Alien" trope and wanting aliens that look and think the part haha

Most of these are sci fi but there are a few fantasy as well, and a few don't have the non-human intelligences as the main focus but the parts we get are great