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The 2020s

Not every book published in the 2020s: the 91 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the British Science Fiction Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Hugo Award or Nebula Award. For the Arthur C. Clarke Award, mostly winners: its shortlists are largely unrecorded.

By year of publication

  • Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse (2020)
  • Club Ded — Nikhil Singh (2020)
  • Comet Weather — Liz Williams (2020)
  • Harrow the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (2020)
  • Light of Impossible Stars — Gareth L. Powell (2020)
  • Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020)
  • Network Effect — Martha Wells (2020)
  • Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (2020)
  • The Animals in That Country — Laura Jean McKay (2020)
  • The City We Became — N. K. Jemisin (2020)
  • The Doors of Eden — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2020)
  • The Midnight Bargain — C. L. Polk (2020)
  • The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
  • The Relentless Moon — Mary Robinette Kowal (2020)
  • The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again — M. John Harrison (2020)
  • Threading the Labyrinth — Tiffani Angus (2020)
  • Water Must Fall — Nick Wood (2020)
  • A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine (2021)
  • A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark (2021)
  • Blackthorn Winter — Liz Williams (2021)
  • Deep Wheel Orcadia — Harry Josephine Giles (2021)
  • Light from Uncommon Stars — Ryka Aoki (2021)
  • Machinehood — S. B. Divya (2021)
  • Plague Birds — Jason Sanford (2021)
  • Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (2021)
  • Purgatory Mount — Adam Roberts (2021)
  • Shards of Earth — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)
  • She Who Became the Sun — Shelley Parker-Chan (2021)
  • Skyward Inn — Aliya Whiteley (2021)
  • The Galaxy, and the Ground Within — Becky Chambers (2021)
  • The Green Man's Challenge — Juliet E. McKenna (2021)
  • The Unbroken — C. L. Clark (2021)
  • Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution — R. F. Kuang (2022)
  • City of Last Chances — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022)
  • Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes — Travis Baldree (2022)
  • Nettle & Bone — Ursula Vernon (2022)
  • Nona the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (2022)
  • Spear — Nicola Griffith (2022)
  • Stars and Bones — Gareth L. Powell (2022)
  • The Coral Bones — E. J. Swift (2022)
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2022)
  • The Green Man's Gift — Juliet E. McKenna (2022)
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society — John Scalzi (2022)
  • The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler (2022)
  • The Red Scholar's Wake — Aliette de Bodard (2022)
  • The Spare Man — Mary Robinette Kowal (2022)
  • The This — Adam Roberts (2022)
  • Venomous Lumpsucker — Ned Beauman (2022)
  • Airside — Christopher Priest (2023)
  • Descendant Machine — Gareth L. Powell (2023)
  • Him — Geoff Ryman (2023)
  • In Ascension — Martin MacInnes (2023)
  • Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — Wole Talabi (2023)
  • Some Desperate Glory — Emily Tesh (2023)
  • Starter Villain — John Scalzi (2023)
  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi — S. A. Chakraborty (2023)
  • The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera (2023)
  • The Terraformers — Annalee Newitz (2023)
  • The Water Outlaws — S. L. Huang (2023)
  • Translation State — Ann Leckie (2023)
  • Witch King — Martha Wells (2023)
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call — Ursula Vernon (2024)
  • Alien Clay — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2024)
  • Annie Bot — Caragh M. O'Brien (2024)
  • Asunder — Kerstin Hall (2024)
  • Calypso — Oliver Langmead (2024)
  • Rabbit in the Moon — Fiona Moore (2024)
  • Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera (2024)
  • Service Model — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2024)
  • Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory — Yaroslav Barsukov (2024)
  • Someone You Can Build a Nest in — John Wiswell (2024)
  • The Book of Love — Kelly Link (2024)
  • The Ministry of Time — Kaliane Bradley (2024)
  • The Tainted Cup — Robert Jackson Bennett (2024)
  • Three Eight One — Aliya Whiteley (2024)
  • A Drop of Corruption — Robert Jackson Bennett (2025)
  • A Granite Silence — Nina Allan (2025)
  • Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor (2025)
  • Edge of Oblivion — Kirk Weddell (2025)
  • Katabasis — R. F. Kuang (2025)
  • Project Hanuman — Stewart Hotston (2025)
  • Shroud — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2025)
  • Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou (2025)
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones (2025)
  • The Everlasting — Alix E. Harrow (2025)
  • The Incandescent — Emily Tesh (2025)
  • The Raven Scholar — Antonia Hodgson (2025)
  • The Salt Oracle — Lorraine Wilson (2025)
  • Wearing the Lion — John Wiswell (2025)
  • When There Are Wolves Again — E. J. Swift (2025)
  • When We Were Real — Daryl Gregory (2025)