Highest Ranked Novels published in 2003

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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	211	Pattern Recognition	NOVEL	William Gibson
2	207	Blind Lake	NOVEL	Robert Charles Wilson
3	205	Abhorsen	NOVEL	Garth Nix
4	185	Ilium	NOVEL	Dan Simmons
5	185	Paladin of Souls	NOVEL	Lois McMaster Bujold
6	185	The Etched City	NOVEL	K. J. Bishop
7	160	Lost Boy, Lost Girl	NOVEL	Peter Straub
8	140	Veniss Underground	NOVEL	Jeff VanderMeer
9	126	Natural History	NOVEL	Justina Robson
10	124	The Amulet of Samarkand	NOVEL	Jonathan Stroud
11	121	The Goose Girl	NOVEL	Shannon Hale
12	113	Humans	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
13	112	Tintenherz	NOVEL	Cornelia Funke
14	110	Omega	NOVEL	Jack McDevitt
15	106	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	NOVEL	J. K. Rowling
16	105	Fudoki	NOVEL	Kij Johnson
17	101	Felaheen	NOVEL	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
18	100	Der Letzte seiner Art	NOVEL	Andreas Eschbach
19	99	Wolves of the Calla	NOVEL	Stephen King
20	98	A Stir of Bones	NOVEL	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
21	97	Spin State	NOVEL	Chris Moriarty
22	96	The Time Traveler's Wife	NOVEL	Audrey Niffenegger
23	92	Singularity Sky	NOVEL	Charles Stross
24	85	The Wee Free Men	NOVEL	Terry Pratchett
25	85	The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread	NOVEL	Kate DiCamillo
26	85	The Night Country	NOVEL	Stewart O'Nan
27	85	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	NOVEL	Cory Doctorow
28	85	Louisiana Breakdown	NOVEL	Lucius Shepard
29	85	Roivan	NOVEL	Glynne MacLean
30	85	Dragonkeeper	NOVEL	Carole Wilkinson
31	85	Fallen Gods	NOVEL	Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman
32	81	Quicksilver	NOVEL	Neal Stephenson
33	71	Maul	NOVEL	Tricia Sullivan
34	70	Orphans of Earth	NOVEL	Shane Dix and Sean Williams
35	70	Oryx and Crake	NOVEL	Margaret Atwood
36	70	Un tango du diable	NOVEL	Hervé Jubert?Herve Jubert
37	70	A Choir of Ill Children	NOVEL	Tom Piccirilli
38	68	Sunshine	NOVEL	Robin McKinley
39	66	Darwin's Children	NOVEL	Greg Bear
40	65	The Light Ages	NOVEL	Ian R. MacLeod
41	63	Phainomenon	NOVEL	H. D. Klein
42	62	Absolution Gap	NOVEL	Alastair Reynolds
43	61	Clade	NOVEL	Mark Budz
44	58	The Salt Roads	NOVEL	Nalo Hopkinson
45	58	A Telling of Stars	NOVEL	Caitlin Sweet
46	57	The Phoenix Exultant	NOVEL	John C. Wright
47	57	The Golden Transcendence	NOVEL	John C. Wright
48	55	The Anvil of the World	NOVEL	Kage Baker
49	54	In the Forests of Serre	NOVEL	Patricia A. McKillip
50	53	The Poison Master	NOVEL	Liz Williams
51	53	Midnight Lamp	NOVEL	Gwyneth Jones
52	52	Red Thunder	NOVEL	John Varley
53	50	Full Dark House	NOVEL	Christopher Fowler
54	50	The Third Exhaust 排気?The Third Exhaust はいき The Third Exhaust: Haiki	NOVEL	冲方丁?Ubukata Tō Ubukata Toh Ubukata Tow うぶかたとう
55	50	Collaborator	NOVEL	Murray Davies
56	50	太陽の塔?たいようのとう Taiyō no Tō Taiyou no Tou	NOVEL	森見登美彦?もりみとみひこ Morimi Tomihiko
57	50	Lily Quench and the Lighthouse of Skellig Mor	NOVEL	Natalie Jane Prior
58	50	Fat White Vampire Blues	NOVEL	Andrew Fox
59	50	Gunpowder Empire	NOVEL	Harry Turtledove
60	50	Hybrids	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
61	50	Mister Monday	NOVEL	Garth Nix
62	50	Tooth and Claw	NOVEL	Jo Walton
63	50	Jinn	NOVEL	Matthew B. J. Delaney
64	50	Escape from Memory	NOVEL	Margaret Peterson Haddix
65	50	The Hollow Kingdom	NOVEL	Clare B. Dunkle
66	50	The Rising	NOVEL	Brian Keene
67	50	Way of the Wolf	NOVEL	E. E. Knight
68	50	Le Revenant de Fomalhaut	NOVEL	Jean-Louis Trudel
69	50	Born of the Sea	NOVEL	Victor Kelleher
70	50	The First Compression 圧縮?The First Compression あっしゅく The First Compression: Asshuku	NOVEL	冲方丁?Ubukata Tō Ubukata Toh Ubukata Tow うぶかたとう
71	50	Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls	NOVEL	Matt Ruff
72	50	La espada de fuego	NOVEL	Javier Negrete
73	50	The Second Combustion 燃焼?The Second Combustion ねんしょう The Second Combustion: Nenshō The Second Combustion: Nenshou	NOVEL	冲方丁?Ubukata Tō Ubukata Toh Ubukata Tow うぶかたとう
74	50	The Sandman: Endless Nights	NOVEL	Neil Gaiman
75	50	Dark Shinto	NOVEL	Dale Elvy
76	50	ルナ Orphan's Trouble?Runa Orphan's Trouble RNA Orphan's Trouble	NOVEL	三島浩司?みしまこうじ Mishima Kōji Mishima Kouji
77	50	Phaos	NOVEL	Alain Bergeron
78	50	CyberPan	NOVEL	Fabrice Colin
79	36	Storyteller	NOVEL	Amy Thomson
80	36	The Lamplighter	NOVEL	Anthony O'Neill
81	35	Terminator Gene	NOVEL	Ian Irvine
82	35	King of the Middle March	NOVEL	Kevin Crossley-Holland
83	35	Grass for His Pillow	NOVEL	Gillian Rubinstein
84	35	The Pixel Eye	NOVEL	Paul Levinson
85	35	Elf Child	NOVEL	David M. Pierce
86	35	Lily Quench and the Magician's Pyramid	NOVEL	Natalie Jane Prior
87	35	La Chevauchée des hippocampes	NOVEL	Robert Tessier
88	35	Serenity Falls	NOVEL	James A. Moore
89	35	Hyperthought	NOVEL	M. M. Buckner
90	35	Coyote Cowgirl	NOVEL	Kim Antieau
91	35	Conquistador	NOVEL	S. M. Stirling
92	35	Steel Helix	NOVEL	Ann Tonsor Zeddies
93	35	Hidden in Sight	NOVEL	Julie E. Czerneda
94	35	The Good House	NOVEL	Tananarive Due
95	35	Monstrous Regiment	NOVEL	Terry Pratchett
96	35	Wolfchild	NOVEL	Rosanne Hawke
97	35	Knighthood of the Dragon	NOVEL	Chris Bunch
98	35	The Autumn Castle	NOVEL	Kim Wilkins
99	35	The Aware	NOVEL	Glenda Larke
100	35	Burndive	NOVEL	Karin Lowachee
101	35	Vampire Thrall	NOVEL	Michael Schiefelbein
102	35	Mater Terribilis	NOVEL	Valerio Evangelisti
103	35	Scream Queen	NOVEL	Edo van Belkom
104	35	Echo and Narcissus	NOVEL	Mark Siegel
105	35	The High Lord	NOVEL	Trudi Canavan
106	35	Wyrmhole	NOVEL	Jay Caselberg
107	35	Rock Breaks Scissors Cut	NOVEL	David J. Schow
108	35	Anam Cara - Seelenfreund	NOVEL	Nicole Rensmann
109	35	Don't Even Think About It	NOVEL	James Valentine
110	35	Roll Them Bones	NOVEL	David Niall Wilson
111	35	Poison	NOVEL	Chris Wooding
112	35	Aeternitas	NOVEL	Markus Heitz
113	35	Wolf's Trap	NOVEL	William D. Gagliani
114	35	The Red Line of Yarmald	NOVEL	Diana Rivers
115	35	Orbital Burn	NOVEL	K. A. Bedford
116	35	Naked Empire	NOVEL	Terry Goodkind
117	35	La Lune seule le sait	NOVEL	Johan Heliot
118	35	Structura maxima	NOVEL	Olivier Paquet
119	35	Crawlers	NOVEL	John Shirley
120	35	Vampyrrhic Rites	NOVEL	Simon Clark
121	35	Eustace	NOVEL	Catherine Jinks
122	35	The Oracle	NOVEL	Catherine Fisher
123	35	Monstrocity	NOVEL	Jeffrey Thomas
124	35	Tropic of Night	NOVEL	Michael Gruber
125	35	Nuit de colère	NOVEL	Francis Berthelot
126	35	Faerie hackers	NOVEL	Johan Heliot
127	35	La profondeur des tombes	NOVEL	Thierry di Rollo
128	35	Menschenspuren	NOVEL	Reinhard Köhrer?Reinhard Koehrer
129	35	Mission Brume	NOVEL	Christian Léourier?Christian Leourier
130	35	Floater	NOVEL	Lucius Shepard
131	35	Бессильные мира сего?Bessil'nyye mira sego	NOVEL	Борис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky
132	35	The Silken Road to Samarkand	NOVEL	Janeen Webb
133	35	A Disturbance of Fate	NOVEL	Mitchell J. Freedman
134	35	Liverpool Fantasy	NOVEL	Larry Kirwan
135	35	忘却の船に流れは光?ぼうきゃくのふねにながれはひかり Bōkyaku no Fune ni Nagare ha Hikari Boukyaku no Fune ni Nagare ha Hikari Bōkyaku no Fune ni Nagare wa Hikari Boukyaku no Fune ni Nagare wa Hikari	NOVEL	田中啓文?たなかひろふみ Hirofumi Tanaka
136	35	神は沈黙せず?かみはちんもくせず Kami ha Chinmoku Sezu Kami wa Chinmoku Sezu	NOVEL	山本弘?Yamamoto Hiroshi やまもとひろし
137	35	Initiation	NOVEL	Virginia Frances Schwartz
138	35	Max Remy Superspy: The Hollywood Mission	NOVEL	Deborah Abela
139	35	The Substance of God	NOVEL	Perry Brass
140	35	象の棲む街?ぞうのすむまち Zō no Sumu Machi Zou no Sumu Machi	NOVEL	渡辺球?わたなべきゅう Watanabe Kyū Watanabe Kyuu
141	35	La Cage de Londres	NOVEL	Jean-Pierre Guillet
142	35	Le Stratège de Léda	NOVEL	Michèle Laframboise?Michele Laframboise
143	35	The Book of Days	NOVEL	Steve Rasnic Tem
144	35	The Dante Club	NOVEL	Matthew Pearl
145	35	Las fuentes perdidas	NOVEL	José Antonio Cotrina
146	35	Shelley	NOVEL	André Wiesler?Andre Wiesler
147	35	Blue Box	NOVEL	Kate Orman
148	35	Wonderland	NOVEL	Mark Chadbourn
149	35	Nobody True	NOVEL	James Herbert
150	35	Dans les larmes de Gaïa?Dans les larmes de Gaia	NOVEL	Nathalie Le Gendre
151	30	The Merlin Conspiracy	NOVEL	Diana Wynne Jones
152	30	Under the black rainbow	NOVEL	Christian Günther?Christian Guenther
153	30	The X President	NOVEL	Philip Baruth
154	30	Peregrinos de Marte	NOVEL	José Antonio Suárez
155	29	La dama número trece	NOVEL	José Carlos Somoza
156	28	Roma Eterna	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
157	28	Paper Mage	NOVEL	Leah Cutter
158	28	1610: A Sundial in a Grave	NOVEL	Mary Gentle
159	28	El país del pasado	NOVEL	Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo
160	28	The Well of Lost Plots	NOVEL	Jasper Fforde
161	27	Der Consul	NOVEL	Christian von Ditfurth
162	26	The Briar King	NOVEL	Greg Keyes
163	26	Star Dragon	NOVEL	Mike Brotherton
164	26	Trickster's Choice	NOVEL	Tamora Pierce
165	25	The Darkness That Comes Before	NOVEL	R. Scott Bakker
166	25	Coalescent	NOVEL	Stephen Baxter
167	25	Midwinter Nightingale	NOVEL	Joan Aiken
168	24	Fool's Fate	NOVEL	Robin Hobb
169	23	The Crystal City	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
170	22	Magic's Silken Snare	NOVEL	ElizaBeth Gilligan
171	21	The Skrayling Tree	NOVEL	Michael Moorcock
172	21	Nothing Human	NOVEL	Nancy Kress
173	21	The Buzzing	NOVEL	Jim Knipfel
174	21	El reino del Dragón de Oro	NOVEL	Isabel Allende
175	20	Predator's Gold	NOVEL	Philip Reeve
176	19	The Tears of the Salamander	NOVEL	Peter Dickinson
177	19	The Risen Empire	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
178	19	The Killing of Worlds	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
179	18	Sister Alice	NOVEL	Robert Reed
180	18	City of Stars	NOVEL	Mary Hoffman
181	16	Memory	NOVEL	Linda Nagata
182	16	Mortal Suns	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
183	14	Dragon's Treasure	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
184	14	The Lost Steersman	NOVEL	Rosemary Kirstein
185	13	The Line of Polity	NOVEL	Neal Asher
186	9	Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken	NOVEL	Paul Di Filippo
187	2	Die Zwerge	NOVEL	Markus Heitz
188	1	Вьюга теней?Vyyuga teney	NOVEL	Алексей Пехов?Alexey Pehov Aleksei Pekhov
189	1	The Braided World	NOVEL	Kay Kenyon
190	1	The Changeling Plague	NOVEL	Syne Mitchell
191	1	The Earthborn	NOVEL	Paul Collins
192	1	Crossfire	NOVEL	Nancy Kress
193	1	The Anguished Dawn	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
194	1	Dante's Equation	NOVEL	Jane Jensen
195	1	Hecate's Glory	NOVEL	Karen Michalson
196	1	Gateways	NOVEL	F. Paul Wilson
197	1	Journey into the Void	NOVEL	Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis
198	1	The Companions	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
199	1	A State of Disobedience	NOVEL	Tom Kratman
200	1	Darknesses	NOVEL	L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
201	1	The Meq	NOVEL	Steve Cash
202	1	Untied Kingdom	NOVEL	James Lovegrove
203	1	The Wreck of the River of Stars	NOVEL	Michael F. Flynn
204	1	Jennifer Government	NOVEL	Max Barry
205	1	The Holy Land	NOVEL	Robert Zubrin
206	1	Scrutator	NOVEL	Ian Irvine

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