Recs if you like Lord of Light...

A list of all the novels which won the Best Novel category of the Hugo Awards. To be nominated for this award a story must be 40,000 words or more and written in or translated to English and it must be either a science fiction or fantasy story. This list should be in descending order (most recent winners first while earlier winners are further down.

SFF where religion is a major part of the character work, world building, and/or a main driver of the plot.

Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel of science fiction/fantasy

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

Classics and must-reads of Science Fiction from the 1960s and 70s designated as part of the New Wave of that era.

Fantasy books with gods and goddesses. Fantastical pantheons, gods walking the earth, godkillers and more. (feel free to recommend me more! I am leaving out ancient greek myth here)

At Nohara66's request, scfi books "without space and physics!" (Or as close as can be). Some of these do feature spaceships in the background or as a step from point A to B, or set within galactic empires, or once colonised worlds, but involve no physics and don't focus on life/travel in space.

Stories that don’t sit comfortably in either genre.

Science fiction books in english published between 1960 and 1969 (going by when it was published as a book, generally).