Highest Ranked Novels published in 1997

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Title	Type	Authors
1	280	Forever Peace	NOVEL	Joe Haldeman
2	231	The Rise of Endymion	NOVEL	Dan Simmons
3	198	Diaspora	NOVEL	Greg Egan
4	184	Jack Faust	NOVEL	Michael Swanwick
5	179	The Gift	NOVEL	Patrick O'Leary
6	150	Frameshift	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
7	147	The Moon and the Sun	NOVEL	Vonda N. McIntyre
8	131	Trader	NOVEL	Charles de Lint
9	130	Black Wine	NOVEL	Candas Jane Dorsey
10	121	Earthquake Weather	NOVEL	Tim Powers
11	120	Illegal Alien	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
12	112	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	NOVEL	J. K. Rowling
13	110	Fog Heart	NOVEL	Thomas Tessier
14	106	Signs of Life	NOVEL	M. John Harrison
15	106	Lives of the Monster Dogs	NOVEL	Kirsten Bakis
16	101	City on Fire	NOVEL	Walter Jon Williams
17	100	The Infernal	NOVEL	Kim Wilkins
18	100	The White Abacus	NOVEL	Damien Broderick
19	99	Darker Angels	NOVEL	S. P. Somtow
20	97	The Art of Arrow Cutting	NOVEL	Stephen Dedman
21	97	/	NOVEL	Greg Bear
22	85	How Few Remain	NOVEL	Harry Turtledove
23	85	Grüße vom Sternenbiest	NOVEL	Robert Feldhoff
24	85	Drawn to the Grave	NOVEL	Mary Ann Mitchell
25	85	La mirada de las furias	NOVEL	Javier Negrete
26	84	My Soul to Keep	NOVEL	Tananarive Due
27	78	The Merro Tree	NOVEL	Katie Waitman
28	74	The Troika	NOVEL	Stepan Chapman
29	70	Zones	NOVEL	Rory Barnes and Damien Broderick
30	70	Shade's Children	NOVEL	Garth Nix
31	70	Sinner	NOVEL	Sara Douglass
32	70	Hungry Eyes	NOVEL	Barry Hoffman
33	70	Ella Enchanted	NOVEL	Gail Carson Levine
34	70	Winter	NOVEL	Simon Brown
35	70	The Dark Edge	NOVEL	Richard Harland
36	70	Darkfall	NOVEL	Isobelle Carmody
37	70	This Symbiotic Fascination	NOVEL	Charlee Jacob
38	66	An Exchange of Hostages	NOVEL	Susan R. Matthews
39	65	Wizard and Glass	NOVEL	Stephen King
40	63	Finity's End	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
41	58	3001: The Final Odyssey	NOVEL	Arthur C. Clarke
42	58	Waking Beauty	NOVEL	Paul Witcover
43	56	Rose Daughter	NOVEL	Robin McKinley
44	54	King's Dragon	NOVEL	Kate Elliott
45	54	Eternity Road	NOVEL	Jack McDevitt
46	54	Destiny's Road	NOVEL	Larry Niven
47	53	Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn	NOVEL	Robert Holdstock
48	52	Dragonclaw	NOVEL	Kate Forsyth
49	50	Children of the Dusk	NOVEL	Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
50	50	The Night Watch	NOVEL	Sean Stewart
51	50	Writ in Blood	NOVEL	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
52	50	The Great Wheel	NOVEL	Ian R. MacLeod
53	50	Broken Blade	NOVEL	Ann Marston
54	50	地圖集?Ditu ji	NOVEL	董啟章?Dung Kai-cheung
55	50	The Physiognomy	NOVEL	Jeffrey Ford
56	50	Greylands	NOVEL	Isobelle Carmody
57	50	Eye to Eye	NOVEL	Catherine Jinks
58	50	L'odyssée du Pénélope	NOVEL	Jean-Pierre Guillet
59	50	Light Errant	NOVEL	Chaz Brenchley
60	50	Sous le vent du monde	NOVEL	Pierre Pelot
61	50	The Dark Side of Nowhere	NOVEL	Neal Shusterman
62	50	Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror	NOVEL	Bill Crider
63	50	Bone Dance	NOVEL	Martha Brooks
64	50	Brain Valley (上)?ブレイン・ヴァレー (ジョウ) Burein Varee (Jou)	NOVEL	瀬名秀明?せな ひであき Hideaki Sena
65	50	Brain Valley (下)?ブレイン・ヴァレー (ゲ) Burein Varee (Ge)	NOVEL	瀬名秀明?せな ひであき Hideaki Sena
66	50	敵は海賊・A級の敵?Teki wa Kaizoku A-kyū no Teki	NOVEL	神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kambayashi Chouhei Kambayashi Chōhei Kambayashi Chouhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kanbayashi かんばやしちょうへい
67	50	ベイスボイル・ブック?Beisuboiru Bukku	NOVEL	井村恭一?いむらきょういち Imura Kyōichi Imura Kyouichi
68	50	River Boy	NOVEL	Tim Bowler
69	48	The Fleet of Stars	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
70	44	The Dazzle of Day	NOVEL	Molly Gloss
71	44	Secret Passages	NOVEL	Paul Preuss
72	36	The Ignored	NOVEL	Bentley Little
73	36	Expendable	NOVEL	James Alan Gardner
74	36	Antarctica	NOVEL	Kim Stanley Robinson
75	36	Oracle	NOVEL	Ian Watson
76	36	Killing Darcy	NOVEL	Melissa Lucashenko
77	36	Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs	NOVEL	Peter Delacorte
78	36	Timequake	NOVEL	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
79	35	Carlucci's Heart	NOVEL	Richard Paul Russo
80	35	あ・じゃ・ぱん (下)?あ・じゃ・ぱん (か) A Ja Pan (Ka)	NOVEL	矢作俊彦?やはぎとしひこ Yahagi Toshihiko
81	35	Dry Water	NOVEL	Eric S. Nylund
82	35	Beneath the Gated Sky	NOVEL	Robert Reed
83	35	Final Diagnosis	NOVEL	James White
84	35	A Son of the Rock	NOVEL	Jack Deighton
85	35	Bretta Martyn	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
86	35	Opalite Moon	NOVEL	Denise Vitola
87	35	Great Apes	NOVEL	Will Self
88	35	Tyrant's Test	NOVEL	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
89	35	The Boggart and the Monster	NOVEL	Susan Cooper
90	35	The Last Hawk	NOVEL	Catherine Asaro
91	35	Nanotime	NOVEL	Bart Kosko
92	35	Mother Grimm	NOVEL	Catherine Wells
93	35	Der programmierte Attentäter?Der programmierte Attentaeter	NOVEL	Uwe Anton
94	35	American Goliath	NOVEL	Harvey Jacobs
95	35	Moonwar	NOVEL	Ben Bova
96	35	Cherudek	NOVEL	Valerio Evangelisti
97	35	競漕海域?きょうそうかいいき Kyōsō Kaiiki Kyousou Kaiiki	NOVEL	佐藤茂?さとうしげる Satō Shigeru Satou Shigeru
98	35	Ne vous disputez jamais avec un spectre	NOVEL	Gudule
99	35	Eine Welt für Mörder	NOVEL	Peter Terrid
100	35	Mauern der Macht	NOVEL	Konrad Schaef
101	35	The Inquisitor	NOVEL	Mary Murrey
102	35	Walking to Babylon	NOVEL	Kate Orman
103	35	Deadset	NOVEL	Emma Tom
104	35	The Outcast	NOVEL	Patricia Bernard
105	35	Nelle de Vilvèq	NOVEL	Francine Pelletier
106	35	Mesmer	NOVEL	Tim Lebbon
107	35	Falling to Earth	NOVEL	Elizabeth Brownrigg
108	35	Singling Out the Couples	NOVEL	Stella Duffy
109	35	Alien Blood	NOVEL	Chris Archer
110	35	Mundo de dioses	NOVEL	Rafael Marín?Rafael Marin
111	35	Kumbi	NOVEL	P. M.
112	35	Aliens Stole My Body	NOVEL	Bruce Coville
113	35	DNAgers: The Legend of Crossbones Key	NOVEL	Steve Englehart and Terry Englehart
114	35	Danger.com@2//Firestorm/	NOVEL	Jordan Cray
115	35	Kipton and the Android	NOVEL	Charles L. Fontenay
116	35	Switchers	NOVEL	Kate Thompson
117	35	Der Moloch von Moordendijk	NOVEL	Horst Pukallus
118	35	Au-delà de nulle part	NOVEL	Jacques Attali
119	35	The Church of Dead Girls	NOVEL	Stephen Dobyns
120	35	ステーシー?Sutēshī Suteeshii	NOVEL	大槻ケンヂ?Ōtsuki Kenji Outsuki Kenji Otsuki Kenji Ohtsuki Kenji
121	35	Fear Nothing	NOVEL	Dean R. Koontz
122	35	Yin	NOVEL	Akif Pirinçci
123	35	Die große Umwendung: neue Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit	NOVEL	Herbert Rosendorfer
124	35	Copyworld	NOVEL	Michael Szameit
125	35	Hex	NOVEL	Kai Meyer
126	35	Version 5 Punkt 12	NOVEL	Reinhold Ziegler
127	35	Autopol	NOVEL	Ilija Trojanow
128	35	Erfurt: Samenkiller unterwegs? Ein futuristischer Ökokrimi	NOVEL	Stefan Sommer
129	35	MOI	NOVEL	Heiko Michael Hartmann
130	35	Babylon Head Hunter	NOVEL	Julian Bodie
131	35	Hagar Qim	NOVEL	W. K. Giesa and Claudia Kern
132	35	The Wake	NOVEL	Neil Gaiman
133	35	The Winner	NOVEL	David Baldacci
134	35	あ・じゃ・ぱん (上)?あ・じゃ・ぱん (じょう) A Ja Pan (Jō) A Ja Pan (Jou)	NOVEL	矢作俊彦?やはぎとしひこ Yahagi Toshihiko
135	35	斎藤家の核弾頭?さいとうけのかくだんとう Saitōke no Kakudantō Saitouke no Kakudantou	NOVEL	篠田節子?しのだ せつこ Shinoda Setsuko
136	35	Les aigles d'Orient	NOVEL	Pierre Bordage
137	35	My Body Fell Off!	NOVEL	B. J. Rowley
138	35	The Dollhouse That Time Forgot	NOVEL	Michael Thomas Ford
139	35	Das Ende Deutschlands	NOVEL	Peter-Paul Zahl
140	35	Polgara the Sorceress	NOVEL	David Eddings and Leigh Eddings
141	31	Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman	NOVEL	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
142	30	In the Garden of Iden	NOVEL	Kage Baker
143	30	Entre dioses y terrícolas	NOVEL	Carlos Saiz Cidoncha
144	29	Assassin's Quest	NOVEL	Robin Hobb
145	29	La llavor del mal	NOVEL	Juan Miguel Aguilera and Ricardo Lázaro
146	28	Mars Underground	NOVEL	William K. Hartmann
147	26	Freedom & Necessity	NOVEL	Steven Brust and Emma Bull
148	26	The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter	NOVEL	S. P. Somtow
149	25	Fool's War	NOVEL	Sarah Zettel
150	25	Titan	NOVEL	Stephen Baxter
151	25	Lightpaths	NOVEL	Howard V. Hendrix
152	24	A Thousand Words for Stranger	NOVEL	Julie E. Czerneda
153	23	Winter Tides	NOVEL	James P. Blaylock
154	22	God's Fires	NOVEL	Patricia Anthony
155	22	Corrupting Dr. Nice	NOVEL	John Kessel
156	22	The Subtle Knife	NOVEL	Philip Pullman
157	21	The Stone Prince	NOVEL	Fiona Patton
158	21	A Scientific Romance	NOVEL	Ronald Wright
159	20	Dogland	NOVEL	Will Shetterly
160	19	Iron Dawn	NOVEL	Matthew Stover
161	18	The Seventh Heart	NOVEL	Marina Fitch
162	18	The Veil of Snows	NOVEL	Mark Helprin
163	18	Lord of the Isles	NOVEL	David Drake
164	17	The Black Sun	NOVEL	Jack Williamson
165	17	The Family Tree	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
166	17	The Seraphim Rising	NOVEL	Elisabeth DeVos
167	16	Glimmering	NOVEL	Elizabeth Hand
168	16	Running with the Demon	NOVEL	Terry Brooks
169	15	The Mines of Behemoth	NOVEL	Michael Shea
170	15	Child of the River	NOVEL	Paul J. McAuley
171	12	Mississippi Blues	NOVEL	Kathleen Ann Goonan
172	12	The Stars Dispose	NOVEL	Michaela Roessner
173	11	Tomorrow and Tomorrow	NOVEL	Charles Sheffield
174	11	The Blackgod	NOVEL	Greg Keyes
175	10	Dreaming Metal	NOVEL	Melissa Scott
176	8	Once a Hero	NOVEL	Elizabeth Moon
177	6	Einstein's Bridge	NOVEL	John G. Cramer
178	5	Deception Well	NOVEL	Linda Nagata
179	2	Acts of Conscience	NOVEL	William Barton
180	2	The Chosen Child	NOVEL	Graham Masterton
181	2	Burning Bright	NOVEL	Jay Russell
182	1	Symphony	NOVEL	Charles L. Grant
183	1	Thorn: An Immortal Tale	NOVEL	Bridget Wood
184	1	How Like a God	NOVEL	Brenda W. Clough
185	1	The Wild Road	NOVEL	M. John Harrison and Jane Johnson
186	1	Jovah's Angel	NOVEL	Sharon Shinn
187	1	Night of Broken Souls	NOVEL	Thomas F. Monteleone
188	1	Reckoning Infinity	NOVEL	John E. Stith
189	1	Days of Cain	NOVEL	J. R. Dunn
190	1	Freedom's Choice	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
191	1	Alpha Centauri	NOVEL	William Barton and Michael Capobianco
192	1	The Barbed Coil	NOVEL	J. V. Jones
193	1	King Blood	NOVEL	Simon Clark
194	1	Disturbia	NOVEL	Christopher Fowler
195	1	Nymphomation	NOVEL	Jeff Noon
196	1	Pagan Moon	NOVEL	Freda Warrington
197	1	Antibodies	NOVEL	Kevin J. Anderson
198	1	Shackled	NOVEL	Ray Garton
199	1	Jingo	NOVEL	Terry Pratchett
200	1	The Mageborn Traitor	NOVEL	Melanie Rawn
201	1	Bad Chili	NOVEL	Joe R. Lansdale
202	1	The Pleistocene Redemption	NOVEL	Dan Gallagher
203	1	Shade of Pale	NOVEL	Greg Kihn
204	1	Cimarron Rose	NOVEL	James Lee Burke
205	1	The House of Sleep	NOVEL	Jonathan Coe
206	1	Excalibur	NOVEL	Bernard Cornwell
207	1	Sacrament of Night	NOVEL	Louise Cooper
208	1	Days	NOVEL	James Lovegrove
209	1	The Matter of the Heart	NOVEL	Nicholas Royle
210	1	The Plague Saint	NOVEL	Rita Donovan
211	1	Stealing Sacred Fire	NOVEL	Storm Constantine
212	1	The Bighead	NOVEL	Edward Lee
213	1	The Harlequin's Dance	NOVEL	Tom Arden
214	1	Cold Iron	NOVEL	Melisa Michaels
215	1	Ladies' Night	NOVEL	Jack Ketchum
216	1	After Midnight	NOVEL	Richard Laymon
217	1	Portrait of the Psychopath As a Young Woman	NOVEL	Edward Lee and Elizabeth Steffen
218	1	Angelique's Descent	NOVEL	Lara Parker
219	1	Storytellers	NOVEL	Julie Anne Parks
220	1	Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future	NOVEL	Mary Daly
221	1	Scissorman	NOVEL	Mark Chadbourn
222	1	Shrouded	NOVEL	Carol Anne Davis
223	1	Dragonflame	NOVEL	Graham Edwards
224	1	The Brentford Chainstore Massacre	NOVEL	Robert Rankin
225	1	Dracula the Undead	NOVEL	Freda Warrington
226	1	Wieża Jaskółki?Wieza Jaskolki	NOVEL	Andrzej Sapkowski
227	1	The Revenant	NOVEL	Phoebe Reeves-Murray

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