Nebula Award - Best Novel

Winners and shortlisted books, by year

• A Plague of Demons — Keith Laumer (1966)
• All Flesh Is Grass — Clifford D. Simak (1966)
• Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb — Philip K. Dick (1966)
• Dune — Frank Herbert (1966) · winner
• Nova Express — William S. Burroughs (1966)
• Open Prison — James White (1966)
• Rogue Dragon — Avram Davidson (1966)
• The Clone — Kate Wilhelm, Theodore L. Thomas (1966)
• The Genocides — Thomas M. Disch (1966)
• The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream — G. C. Edmondson (1966)
• The Star Fox — Poul Anderson (1966)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch — Philip K. Dick (1966)
• Babel-17 — Samuel R. Delany (1967) · winner
• Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (1967) · winner
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein (1967)
• Chthon — Piers Anthony (1968)
• Lord of Light — Roger Zelazny (1968)
• The Einstein Intersection — Samuel R. Delany (1968) · winner
• The Eskimo Invasion — Hayden Howard (1968)
• Thorns — Robert Silverberg (1968)
• Black Easter — James Blish (1969)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick (1969)
• Past Master — R. A. Lafferty (1969)
• Picnic on Paradise — Joanna Russ (1969)
• Rite of Passage — Alexei Panshin (1969) · winner
• Stand on Zanzibar — John Brunner (1969)
• The Masks of Time — Robert Silverberg (1969)
• Bug Jack Barron — Norman Spinrad (1970)
• Isle of the Dead — Roger Zelazny (1970)
• Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1970)
• The Jagged Orbit — John Brunner (1970)
• The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin (1970) · winner
• Up the Line — Robert Silverberg (1970)
• And Chaos Died — Joanna Russ (1971)
• Fourth Mansions — R. A. Lafferty (1971)
• Ringworld — Larry Niven (1971) · winner
• The Steel Crocodile — D. G. Compton (1971)
• The Year of the Quiet Sun — Wilson Tucker (1971)
• Tower of Glass — Robert Silverberg (1971)
• A Time of Changes — Robert Silverberg (1972) · winner
• Half Past Human — T. J. Bass (1972)
• Margaret and I — Kate Wilhelm (1972)
• The Byworlder — Poul Anderson (1972)
• The Devil Is Dead — R. A. Lafferty (1972)
• The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)
• Dying Inside — Robert Silverberg (1973)
• The Book of Skulls — Robert Silverberg (1973)
• The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov (1973) · winner
• The Iron Dream — Norman Spinrad (1973)
• The Sheep Look Up — John Brunner (1973)
• What Entropy Means to Me — George Alec Effinger (1973)
• When Harlie Was One — David Gerrold (1973)
• Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon (1974)
• Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke (1974) · winner
• The Man Who Folded Himself — David Gerrold (1974)
• The People of the Wind — Poul Anderson (1974)
• Time Enough for Love — Robert A. Heinlein (1974)
• 334 — Thomas M. Disch (1975)
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said — Philip K. Dick (1975)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia — Ursula K. Le Guin (1975) · winner
• The Godwhale — T. J. Bass (1975)
• A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire — Michael Bishop (1976)
• A Midsummer Tempest — Poul Anderson (1976)
• Autumn Angels — Arthur Byron Cover (1976)
• Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany (1976)
• Doorways in the Sand — Roger Zelazny (1976)
• Guernica Night — Barry N. Malzberg (1976)
• Le città invisibili — Italo Calvino (1976)
• Missing Man — Katherine MacLean (1976)
• Ragtime — E. L. Doctorow (1976)
• The Birthgrave — Tanith Lee (1976)
• The Computer Connection — Alfred Bester (1976)
• The Embedding — Ian Watson (1976)
• The Exile Waiting — Vonda N. McIntyre (1976)
• The Female Man — Joanna Russ (1976)
• The Forever War — Joe Haldeman (1976) · winner
• The Heritage of Hastur — Marion Zimmer Bradley (1976)
• The Mote in God's Eye — Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven (1976)
• The Stochastic Man — Robert Silverberg (1976)
• Inferno — Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven (1977)
• Islands — Marta Randall (1977)
• Man Plus — Frederik Pohl (1977) · winner
• Shadrach in the Furnace — Robert Silverberg (1977)
• Triton — Samuel R. Delany (1977)
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang — Kate Wilhelm (1977)
• Cirque — Terry Carr (1978)
• Gateway — Frederik Pohl (1978) · winner
• In the Ocean of Night — Gregory Benford (1978)
• Moonstar Odyssey — David Gerrold (1978)
• Sword of the Demon — Richard A. Lupoff (1978)
• Blind Voices — Tom Reamy (1979)
• Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre (1979) · winner
• Kalki — Gore Vidal (1979)
• Strangers — Gardner Dozois (1979)
• The Faded Sun: Kesrith — C. J. Cherryh (1979)
• Jem — Frederik Pohl (1980)
• Juniper Time — Kate Wilhelm (1980)
• On Wings of Song — Thomas M. Disch (1980)
• The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke (1980) · winner
• The Road to Corlay — Richard Cowper (1980)
• Titan — John Varley (1980)
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon — Frederik Pohl (1981)
• Mockingbird — Walter Tevis (1981)
• The Orphan — Robert Stallman (1981)
• The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe (1981)
• The Snow Queen — Joan D. Vinge (1981)
• Timescape — Gregory Benford (1981) · winner
• Little, Big — John Crowley (1982)
• Radix — A. A. Attanasio (1982)
• Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban (1982)
• The Claw of the Conciliator — Gene Wolfe (1982) · winner
• The Many-Colored Land — Julian May (1982)
• The Vampire Tapestry — Suzy McKee Charnas (1982)
• Foundation's Edge — Isaac Asimov (1983)
• Friday — Robert A. Heinlein (1983)
• Helliconia Spring — Brian W. Aldiss (1983)
• No Enemy But Time — Michael Bishop (1983) · winner
• The Sword of the Lictor — Gene Wolfe (1983)
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Philip K. Dick (1983)
• Against Infinity — Gregory Benford (1984)
• Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden — Jack Vance (1984)
• Startide Rising — David Brin (1984) · winner
• Tea with the Black Dragon — R. A. MacAvoy (1984)
• The Citadel of the Autarch — Gene Wolfe (1984)
• The Void Captain's Tale — Norman Spinrad (1984)
• Frontera — Lewis Shiner (1985)
• Job: A Comedy of Justice — Robert A. Heinlein (1985)
• Neuromancer — William Gibson (1985) · winner
• The Integral Trees — Larry Niven (1985)
• The Man Who Melted — Jack Dann (1985)
• The Wild Shore — Kim Stanley Robinson (1985)
• Blood Music — Greg Bear (1986)
• Dinner at Deviant's Palace — Tim Powers (1986)
• Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card (1986) · winner
• Helliconia Winter — Brian W. Aldiss (1986)
• Schismatrix — Bruce Sterling (1986)
• The Postman — David Brin (1986)
• The Remaking of Sigmund Freud — Barry N. Malzberg (1986)
• Count Zero — William Gibson (1987)
• Free Live Free — Gene Wolfe (1987)
• Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card (1987) · winner
• The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood (1987)
• The Journal of Nicholas the American — Leigh Kennedy (1987)
• This Is the Way the World Ends — James Morrow (1987)
• Soldier of the Mist — Gene Wolfe (1988)
• The Falling Woman — Pat Murphy (1988) · winner
• The Forge of God — Greg Bear (1988)
• The Uplift War — David Brin (1988)
• Vergil in Averno — Avram Davidson (1988)
• When Gravity Fails — George Alec Effinger (1988)
• Deserted Cities of the Heart — Lewis Shiner (1989)
• Falling Free — Lois McMaster Bujold (1989) · winner
• Great Sky River — Gregory Benford (1989)
• Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson (1989)
• Red Prophet — Orson Scott Card (1989)
• The Sea and Summer — George Turner (1989)
• The Urth of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe (1989)
• Good News from Outer Space — John Kessel (1990)
• Ivory — Mike Resnick (1990)
• Prentice Alvin — Orson Scott Card (1990)
• Sister Light, Sister Dark — Jane Yolen (1990)
• The Boat of a Million Years — Poul Anderson (1990)
• The Healer's War — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1990) · winner
• Mary Reilly — Valerie Martin (1991)
• Only Begotten Daughter — James Morrow (1991)
• Redshift Rendezvous — John E. Stith (1991)
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin (1991) · winner
• The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons (1991)
• White Jenna — Jane Yolen (1991)
• Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold (1992)
• Bone Dance — Emma Bull (1992)
• Orbital Resonance — John Barnes (1992)
• Stations of the Tide — Michael Swanwick (1992) · winner
• Synners — Pat Cadigan (1992)
• The Difference Engine — Bruce Sterling, William Gibson (1992)
• A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge (1993)
• A Million Open Doors — John Barnes (1993)
• Briar Rose — Jane Yolen (1993)
• China Mountain Zhang — Maureen F. McHugh (1993)
• Doomsday Book — Connie Willis (1993) · winner
• Sarah Canary — Karen Joy Fowler (1993)
• Assemblers of Infinity — Doug Beason, Kevin J. Anderson (1994)
• Beggars in Spain — Nancy Kress (1994)
• Hard Landing — Algis Budrys (1994)
• Nightside the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe (1994)
• Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1994) · winner
• A Night in the Lonesome October — Roger Zelazny (1995)
• Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1995)
• Gun, with Occasional Music — Jonathan Lethem (1995)
• Moving Mars — Greg Bear (1995) · winner
• Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler (1995)
• Temporary Agency — Rachel Pollack (1995)
• Towing Jehovah — James Morrow (1995)
• Beggars & Choosers — Nancy Kress (1996)
• Caldé of the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe (1996)
• Coelestis — Paul Park (1996)
• Metropolitan — Walter Jon Williams (1996)
• Mother of Storms — John Barnes (1996)
• The Terminal Experiment — Robert J. Sawyer (1996) · winner
• Expiration Date — Tim Powers (1997)
• Slow River — Nicola Griffith (1997) · winner
• Starplex — Robert J. Sawyer (1997)
• The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson (1997)
• The Silent Strength of Stones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman (1997)
• Winter Rose — Patricia A. McKillip (1997)
• A Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin (1998)
• Ancient Shores — Jack McDevitt (1998)
• Bellwether — Connie Willis (1998)
• City on Fire — Walter Jon Williams (1998)
• King's Dragon — Kate Elliott (1998)
• Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold (1998)
• The Moon and the Sun — Vonda N. McIntyre (1998) · winner
• Forever Peace — Joe Haldeman (1999) · winner
• How Few Remain — Harry Turtledove (1999)
• Moonfall — Jack McDevitt (1999)
• The Death of the Necromancer — Martha Wells (1999)
• The Last Hawk — Catherine Asaro (1999)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last — Connie Willis (1999)
• A Clash of Kings — George R. R. Martin (2000)
• A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge (2000)
• Mission Child — Maureen F. McHugh (2000)
• Mockingbird — Sean Stewart (2000)
• Parable of the Talents — Octavia E. Butler (2000) · winner
• The Cassini Division — Ken MacLeod (2000)
• A Civil Campaign — Lois McMaster Bujold (2001)
• Crescent City Rhapsody — Kathleen Ann Goonan (2001)
• Darwin's Radio — Greg Bear (2001) · winner
• Forests of the Heart — Charles de Lint (2001)
• Infinity Beach — Jack McDevitt (2001)
• Midnight Robber — Nalo Hopkinson (2001)
• A Storm of Swords — George R. R. Martin (2002)
• Eternity's End — Jeffrey A. Carver (2002)
• Mars Crossing — Geoffrey A. Landis (2002)
• Passage — Connie Willis (2002)
• The Collapsium — Wil McCarthy (2002)
• The Quantum Rose — Catherine Asaro (2002) · winner
• The Tower at Stony Wood — Patricia A. McKillip (2002)
• American Gods — Neil Gaiman (2003) · winner
• Bones of the Earth — Michael Swanwick (2003)
• Perdido Street Station — China Miéville (2003)
• Picoverse — Robert A. Metzger (2003)
• Solitaire — Kelley Eskridge (2003)
• The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin (2003)
• Chindi — Jack McDevitt (2004)
• Diplomatic Immunity — Lois McMaster Bujold (2004)
• Light Music — Kathleen Ann Goonan (2004)
• The Mount — Carol Emshwiller (2004)
• The Salt Roads — Nalo Hopkinson (2004)
• The Speed of Dark — Elizabeth Moon (2004) · winner
• Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell (2005)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow (2005)
• Omega — Jack McDevitt (2005)
• Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold (2005) · winner
• Perfect Circle — Sean Stewart (2005)
• The Knight — Gene Wolfe (2005)
• Air — Geoff Ryman (2006)
• Camouflage — Joe Haldeman (2006) · winner
• Going Postal — Terry Pratchett (2006)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke (2006)
• Orphans of Chaos — John C. Wright (2006)
• Polaris — Jack McDevitt (2006)
• Farthing — Jo Walton (2007)
• From the Files of the Time Rangers — Richard Bowes (2007)
• Seeker — Jack McDevitt (2007) · winner
• The Girl in the Glass — Jeffrey Ford (2007)
• The Privilege of the Sword — Ellen Kushner (2007)
• To Crush the Moon — Wil McCarthy (2007)
• Odyssey — Jack McDevitt (2008)
• Ragamuffin — Tobias S. Buckell (2008)
• The Accidental Time Machine — Joe Haldeman (2008)
• The New Moon's Arms — Nalo Hopkinson (2008)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union — Michael Chabon (2008) · winner
• Brasyl — Ian McDonald (2009)
• Cauldron — Jack McDevitt (2009)
• Little Brother — Cory Doctorow (2009)
• Making Money — Terry Pratchett (2009)
• Powers — Ursula K. Le Guin (2009) · winner
• Superpowers — David J. Schwartz (2009)
• Boneshaker — Cherie Priest (2010)
• Finch — Jeff VanderMeer (2010)
• Flesh and Fire — Laura Anne Gilman (2010)
• The City & the City — China Miéville (2010)
• The Love We Share Without Knowing — Christopher Barzak (2010)
• The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi (2010) · winner
• All Clear — Connie Willis (2011) · winner
• Blackout — Connie Willis (2011) · winner
• Echo — Jack McDevitt (2011)
• Shades of Milk and Honey — Mary Robinette Kowal (2011)
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — N. K. Jemisin (2011)
• The Native Star — M. K. Hobson (2011)
• Who Fears Death — Nnedi Okorafor (2011)
• Among Others — Jo Walton (2012) · winner
• Embassytown — China Miéville (2012)
• Firebird — Jack McDevitt (2012)
• God's War — Kameron Hurley (2012)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti — Genevieve Valentine (2012)
• The Kingdom of Gods — N. K. Jemisin (2012)
• 2312 — Kim Stanley Robinson (2013) · winner
• Glamour in Glass — Mary Robinette Kowal (2013)
• Ironskin — Tina Connolly (2013)
• The Drowning Girl — Caitlín R. Kiernan (2013)
• The Killing Moon — N. K. Jemisin (2013)
• Throne of the Crescent Moon — Saladin Ahmed (2013)
• A Stranger in Olondria — Sofia Samatar (2014)
• Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie (2014) · winner
• Fire with Fire — Charles E. Gannon (2014)
• Hild — Nicola Griffith (2014)
• The Golem and the Jinni — Helene Wecker (2014)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman (2014)
• The Red: First Light — Linda Nagata (2014)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves — Karen Joy Fowler (2014)
• Ancillary Sword — Ann Leckie (2015)
• Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer (2015) · winner
• Coming Home — Jack McDevitt (2015)
• The Goblin Emperor — Sarah Monette (2015)
• Trial by Fire — Charles E. Gannon (2015)
• 三体 — Cixin Liu (2015)
• Ancillary Mercy — Ann Leckie (2016)
• Raising Caine — Charles E. Gannon (2016)
• The Elephants' Graveyard — Lawrence M. Schoen (2016)
• The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin (2016)
• The Grace of Kings — Ken Liu (2016)
• Updraft — Fran Wilde (2016)
• Uprooted — Naomi Novik (2016) · winner
• All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders (2017) · winner
• Borderline — Mishell Baker (2017)
• Everfair — Nisi Shawl (2017)
• Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee (2017)
• The Obelisk Gate — N. K. Jemisin (2017)
• Amberlough — Lara Elena Donnelly (2018)
• Autonomous — Annalee Newitz (2018)
• Jade City — Fonda Lee (2018)
• Six Wakes — Mur Lafferty (2018)
• Spoonbenders — Daryl Gregory (2018)
• The Stone Sky — N. K. Jemisin (2018) · winner
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter — Theodora Goss (2018)
• Blackfish City — Sam J. Miller (2019)
• Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik (2019)
• The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal (2019) · winner
• The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang (2019)
• Trail of Lightning — Rebecca Roanhorse (2019)
• Witchmark — C. L. Polk (2019)
• A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine (2020)
• A Song for a New Day — Sarah Pinsker (2020) · winner
• Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (2020)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020)
• Marque of Caine — Charles E. Gannon (2020)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow (2020)
• Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse (2021)
• Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)
• Network Effect — Martha Wells (2021) · winner
• Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (2021)
• The City We Became — N. K. Jemisin (2021)
• The Midnight Bargain — C. L. Polk (2021)
• A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine (2022)
• A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark (2022) · winner
• Machinehood — S. B. Divya (2022)
• Plague Birds — Jason Sanford (2022)
• The Unbroken — C. L. Clark (2022)
• Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution — R. F. Kuang (2023) · winner
• Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes — Travis Baldree (2023)
• Nettle & Bone — Ursula Vernon (2023)
• Nona the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (2023)
• Spear — Nicola Griffith (2023)
• The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler (2023)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — Wole Talabi (2024)
• The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera (2024) · winner
• The Terraformers — Annalee Newitz (2024)
• The Water Outlaws — S. L. Huang (2024)
• Translation State — Ann Leckie (2024)
• Witch King — Martha Wells (2024)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call — Ursula Vernon (2025)
• Asunder — Kerstin Hall (2025)
• Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera (2025)
• Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory — Yaroslav Barsukov (2025)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest in — John Wiswell (2025) · winner
• The Book of Love — Kelly Link (2025)
• Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor (2026)
• Katabasis — R. F. Kuang (2026)
• Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou (2026)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones (2026) · winner
• The Incandescent — Emily Tesh (2026)
• Wearing the Lion — John Wiswell (2026)
• When We Were Real — Daryl Gregory (2026)