Hugo 2025 finalists

Best Novel (1,078 ballots cast for 554 nominees)

  • The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK)
  • The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre)
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
  • Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
  • Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Best Novella (739 ballots cast for 209 nominees)

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

see https://locusmag.com/2025/04/157974/ for more details