Award Category: Best Novel (World Fantasy Award)

Award Category: Best Novel Award Category Record # 532
Award Type: World Fantasy Award
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1975

Win	The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip
Nomination	A Midsummer Tempest	Poul Anderson
Nomination	Merlin's Ring	H. Warner Munn

1976
Win	Bid Time Return	Richard Matheson
Nomination	'Salem's Lot	Stephen King

1977
Win	Doctor Rat	William Kotzwinkle
Nomination	Dark Crusade	Karl Edward Wagner
Nomination	The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights	John Steinbeck
Nomination	The Doll Who Ate His Mother	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	The Dragon and the George	Gordon R. Dickson
Nomination	The Sailor on the Seas of Fate	Michael Moorcock

1978
Win	Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Leiber
Nomination	The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever	Stephen R. Donaldson
Nomination	The Hour of the Oxrun Dead	C. L. Grant

1979
Win	Gloriana, or, The Unfulfill'd Queen	Michael Moorcock
Nomination	Night's Master	Tanith Lee
Nomination	The Black Castle	Les Daniels
Nomination	The Sound of Midnight	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	The Stand	Stephen King

1980
Win	Watchtower	Elizabeth A. Lynn
Nomination	Harpist in the Wind	Patricia A. McKillip
Nomination	The Dancers of Arun	Elizabeth A. Lynn
Nomination	The Dark Bright Water	Patricia Wrightson
Nomination	The Dead Zone	Stephen King
Nomination	The Last Call of Mourning	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	The Palace	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

1981
Win	The Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	Ariosto	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Nomination	Firelord	Parke Godwin
Nomination	Shadowland	Peter Straub
Nomination	The Mist	Stephen King

1982
Win	Little, Big	John Crowley
Nomination	The Claw of the Conciliator	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	The Nameless	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	The War Hound and the World's Pain	Michael Moorcock
Nomination	The White Hotel	D. M. Thomas

1983
Win	Nifft the Lean	Michael Shea
Nomination	Fevre Dream	George R. R. Martin
Nomination	Phantom	Thomas Tessier
Nomination	The Nestling	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	The Sword of the Lictor	Gene Wolfe

1984
Win	The Dragon Waiting	John M. Ford
Nomination	Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden	Jack Vance
Nomination	Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Nomination	Tea with the Black Dragon	R. A. MacAvoy
Nomination	The Armageddon Rag	George R. R. Martin
Nomination	The Wandering Unicorn (translation of El unicornio)	Manuel Mujica Láinez

1985
Win	Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was	Barry Hughart
Win	Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Nomination	Archer's Goon	Diana Wynne Jones
Nomination	The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
Nomination	The Talisman	Stephen King and Peter Straub

1986
Win	Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
Nomination	Illywhacker	Peter Carey
Nomination	The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
Nomination	The Dream Years	Lisa Goldstein
Nomination	The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Nomination	Winterking	Paul Hazel

1987
Win	Perfume (translation of Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders^?Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Moerders )	Patrick Süskind^?Patrick Sueskind
Nomination	IT	Stephen King
Nomination	Soldier of the Mist	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	Strangers	Dean R. Koontz
Nomination	Talking Man	Terry Bisson
Nomination	The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	The Tricksters	Margaret Mahy

1988
Win	Replay	Ken Grimwood
Nomination	Misery	Stephen King
Nomination	On Stranger Tides	Tim Powers
Nomination	Seventh Son	Orson Scott Card
Nomination	Swan Song	Robert R. McCammon
Nomination	Weaveworld	Clive Barker
Nomination	Ægypt^?Aegypt Egypt	John Crowley

1989
Win	Koko	Peter Straub
Nomination	Fade	Robert Cormier
Nomination	Sleeping in Flame	Jonathan Carroll
Nomination	The Drive In	Joe R. Lansdale
Nomination	The Last Coin	James P. Blaylock
Nomination	The Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris

1990
Win	Lyonesse: Madouc	Jack Vance
Nomination	A Child Across the Sky	Jonathan Carroll
Nomination	Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Nomination	In a Dark Dream	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	Soldier of Arete	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	The Stress of Her Regard	Tim Powers

1991
Win	Only Begotten Daughter	James Morrow
Win	Thomas the Rhymer	Ellen Kushner
Nomination	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch	Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Nomination	Mary Reilly	Valerie Martin
Nomination	Tigana	Guy Gavriel Kay

1992
Win	Boy's Life	Robert R. McCammon
Nomination	Bone Dance	Emma Bull
Nomination	Hunting the Ghost Dancer	A. A. Attanasio
Nomination	Outside the Dog Museum	Jonathan Carroll
Nomination	The Little Country	Charles de Lint
Nomination	The Paper Grail	James P. Blaylock

1993
Win	Last Call	Tim Powers
Nomination	Anno Dracula	Kim Newman
Nomination	Briar Rose	Jane Yolen
Nomination	Photographing Fairies	Steve Szilagyi
Nomination	Was (variant of 'Was ... ')	Geoff Ryman

1994
Win	Glimpses	Lewis Shiner
Nomination	Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
Nomination	Lord of the Two Lands	Judith Tarr
Nomination	Skin	Kathe Koja
Nomination	The Innkeeper's Song	Peter S. Beagle
Nomination	The Iron Dragon's Daughter	Michael Swanwick
Nomination	The Throat	Peter Straub

1995
Win	Towing Jehovah	James Morrow
Nomination	Brittle Innings	Michael Bishop
Nomination	From the Teeth of Angels	Jonathan Carroll
Nomination	Love & Sleep	John Crowley
Nomination	The Circus of the Earth and the Air	Brooke Stevens
Nomination	Waking the Moon	Elizabeth Hand

1996
Win	The Prestige	Christopher Priest
Nomination	All the Bells on Earth	James P. Blaylock
Nomination	Expiration Date	Tim Powers
Nomination	Red Earth and Pouring Rain	Vikram Chandra
Nomination	Requiem	Graham Joyce
Nomination	The Silent Strength of Stones	Nina Kiriki Hoffman

1997
Win	Godmother Night	Rachel Pollack
Nomination	A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin
Nomination	Devil's Tower	Mark Sumner
Nomination	Shadow of Ashland	Terence M. Green
Nomination	The 37th Mandala	Marc Laidlaw
Nomination	The Bear Went Over the Mountain	William Kotzwinkle
Nomination	The Golden Key	Kate Elliott and Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson

1998
Win	The Physiognomy	Jeffrey Ford
Nomination	American Goliath	Harvey Jacobs
Nomination	Dry Water	Eric S. Nylund
Nomination	The Gift	Patrick O'Leary
Nomination	Trader	Charles de Lint
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*	The Club Dumas (translation of El Club Dumas)	Arturo Pérez-Reverte

1999
Win	The Antelope Wife	Louise Erdrich
Nomination	Mockingbird	Sean Stewart
Nomination	Sailing to Sarantium	Guy Gavriel Kay
Nomination	Someplace to Be Flying	Charles de Lint
Nomination	The Martyring	Thomas Sullivan

2000
Win	Thraxas	Martin Millar
Nomination	A Red Heart of Memories	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nomination	A Witness to Life	Terence M. Green
Nomination	Gardens of the Moon	Steven Erikson
Nomination	Tamsin	Peter S. Beagle
Nomination	The Rainy Season	James P. Blaylock

2001
Win	Declare	Tim Powers
Win	Galveston	Sean Stewart
Nomination	Lord of Emperors	Guy Gavriel Kay
Nomination	Perdido Street Station	China Miéville^?China Mieville
Nomination	The Amber Spyglass	Philip Pullman
Nomination	The Grand Ellipse	Paula Volsky

2002
Win	The Other Wind	Ursula K. Le Guin
Nomination	American Gods	Neil Gaiman
Nomination	Brown Harvest	Jay Russell
Nomination	From the Dust Returned	Ray Bradbury
Nomination	The Curse of Chalion	Lois McMaster Bujold
Nomination	The Onion Girl	Charles de Lint
Nomination	The Wooden Sea	Jonathan Carroll

2003
Win	Ombria in Shadow	Patricia A. McKillip
Win	The Facts of Life	Graham Joyce
Nomination	Fitcher's Brides	Gregory Frost
Nomination	The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque	Jeffrey Ford
Nomination	The Scar	China Miéville^?China Mieville

2004
Win	Tooth and Claw	Jo Walton
Nomination	Fudoki	Kij Johnson
Nomination	The Etched City	K. J. Bishop
Nomination	The Light Ages	Ian R. MacLeod
Nomination	Veniss Underground	Jeff VanderMeer

2005
Win	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke
Nomination	Iron Council	China Miéville^?China Mieville
Nomination	Perfect Circle	Sean Stewart
Nomination	The Knight	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	The Runes of the Earth	Stephen R. Donaldson
Nomination	The Wizard	Gene Wolfe

2006
Win	Kafka on the Shore (translation of 海辺のカフカ^?Umibe no Kafuka )	Haruki Murakami
Nomination	A Princess of Roumania	Paul Park
Nomination	Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Nomination	Od Magic	Patricia A. McKillip
Nomination	The Limits of Enchantment	Graham Joyce
Nomination	Vellum	Hal Duncan

2007
Win	Soldier of Sidon	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	In the Night Garden	Catherynne M. Valente
Nomination	Lisey's Story	Stephen King
Nomination	The Lies of Locke Lamora	Scott Lynch
Nomination	The Privilege of the Sword	Ellen Kushner

2008
Win	Ysabel	Guy Gavriel Kay
Nomination	Fangland	John Marks
Nomination	Territory	Emma Bull
Nomination	The Gospel of the Knife	Will Shetterly
Nomination	The Servants	Michael Marshall Smith

2009
Win	Tender Morsels	Margo Lanagan
Win	The Shadow Year	Jeffrey Ford
Nomination	Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Nomination	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman
Nomination	The House of the Stag	Kage Baker

2010
Win	The City & The City	China Miéville^?China Mieville
Nomination	Blood of Ambrose	James Enge
Nomination	Finch	Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination	In Great Waters	Kit Whitfield
Nomination	The Red Tree	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan

2011
Win	Who Fears Death	Nnedi Okorafor
Nomination	Redemption in Indigo	Karen Lord
Nomination	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N. K. Jemisin
Nomination	The Silent Land	Graham Joyce
Nomination	Under Heaven	Guy Gavriel Kay
Nomination	Zoo City	Lauren Beukes

2012
Win	Osama	Lavie Tidhar
Nomination	11/22/63	Stephen King
Nomination	A Dance with Dragons	George R. R. Martin
Nomination	Among Others	Jo Walton
Nomination	Those Across the River	Christopher Buehlman

2013
Win	Alif the Unseen	G. Willow Wilson
Nomination	Crandolin	Anna Tambour
Nomination	Some Kind of Fairy Tale	Graham Joyce
Nomination	The Drowning Girl	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
Nomination	The Killing Moon	N. K. Jemisin

2014
Win	A Stranger in Olondria	Sofia Samatar
Nomination	Dust Devil on a Quiet Street	Richard Bowes
Nomination	The Golem and the Jinni	Helene Wecker
Nomination	The Land Across	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Neil Gaiman

2015
Win	The Bone Clocks	David Mitchell
Nomination	Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy	Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination	City of Stairs	Robert Jackson Bennett
Nomination	My Real Children	Jo Walton
Nomination	The Goblin Emperor	Katherine Addison

2016
Win	The Chimes	Anna Smaill
Nomination	A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
Nomination	Savages	K. J. Parker
Nomination	The Buried Giant	Kazuo Ishiguro
Nomination	The Fifth Season	N. K. Jemisin
Nomination	Uprooted	Naomi Novik

2017
Win	The Sudden Appearance of Hope	Claire North
Nomination	Borderline	Mishell Baker
Nomination	Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Nomination	Roadsouls	Betsy James
Nomination	The Obelisk Gate	N. K. Jemisin

2018
Win ^ⓘTied	Jade City	Fonda Lee
Win ^ⓘTied	The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Nomination	Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr	John Crowley
Nomination	Spoonbenders	Daryl Gregory
Nomination	The City of Brass	S. A. Chakraborty
Nomination	The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter	Theodora Goss

2019
Win	Witchmark	C. L. Polk
Nomination	In the Night Wood	Dale Bailey
Nomination	The Mere Wife	Maria Dahvana Headley
Nomination	The Poppy War	R. F. Kuang
Nomination	Trail of Lightning	Rebecca Roanhorse

2020
Win	Queen of the Conquered	Kacen Callender
Nomination	Gideon the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir
Nomination	The Memory Police (translation of 密やかな結晶^?ひそやかなけっしょう Hisoyaka na Kesshō Hisoyaka na Kesshou )	Yoko Ogawa
Nomination	The Raven Tower	Ann Leckie
Nomination	The Ten Thousand Doors of January	Alix E. Harrow

2021
Win	Trouble the Saints	Alaya Dawn Johnson
Nomination	Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Nomination	Piranesi	Susanna Clarke
Nomination	The Midnight Bargain	C. L. Polk
Nomination	The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones

2022
Win	The Jasmine Throne	Tasha Suri
Nomination	A Master of Djinn	P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
Nomination	Black Water Sister	Zen Cho
Nomination	The City Beautiful	Aden Polydoros
Nomination	The Last House on Needless Street	Catriona Ward

2023
Win	Saint Death's Daughter	C. S. E. Cooney
Nomination	Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution	R. F. Kuang
Nomination	Siren Queen	Nghi Vo
Nomination	Spear	Nicola Griffith
Nomination	The Ballad of Perilous Graves	Alex Jennings

2024
Win	The Reformatory	Tananarive Due
Nomination	Looking Glass Sound	Catriona Ward
Nomination	Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon	Wole Talabi
Nomination	Starling House	Alix E. Harrow
Nomination	The Possibilities	Yael Goldstein-Love
Nomination	Witch King	Martha Wells

Award Category: Best Novel (World Fantasy Award)

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