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This is a list of World Fantasy Award nominees and winners for best novel, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. Winners are in bold.
This is a judged award associated with the World Fantasy conventions, although two of the places on the final ballot are determined by popular vote.
| 2023 | C.S.E. Cooney | Saint Death's Daughter | |
| 2023 | Nicola Griffith | Spear | |
| 2023 | Alex Jennings | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | |
| 2023 | R.F. Kuang | Babel | 7 out of 10 |
| 2023 | Nghi Vo | Siren Queen | |
| 2022 | Tasha Suri | The Jasmine Throne | |
| 2022 | Zen Cho | Black Water Sister | |
| 2022 | P. Djèlí Clark | A Master of Djinn | 7 out of 10 |
| 2022 | Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | |
| 2022 | Catriona Ward | The Last House on Needless Street | |
| 2021 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | Trouble the Saints | |
| 2021 | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | 6 out of 10 |
| 2021 | Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | |
| 2021 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Mexican Gothic | |
| 2021 | C.L. Polk | The Midnight Bargain | |
| 2020 | Kacen Callender | Queen of the Conquered | |
| 2020 | Alix E. Harrow | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | 9 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Ann Leckie | The Raven Tower | 8 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth | 8 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Yoko Ogawa | The Memory Police | |
| 2019 | C.L. Polk | Witchmark | |
| 2019 | Dale Bailey | In the Night Wood | |
| 2019 | Maria Dahvana Headley | The Mere Wife | |
| 2019 | R.F. Kuang | The Poppy War | |
| 2019 | Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | 4 out of 10 |
| 2018 | Victor LaValle | The Changeling | |
| 2018 | Fonda Lee | Jade City | |
| 2018 | S.A. Chakraborty | The City of Brass | |
| 2018 | John Crowley | Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir | |
| 2018 | Theodora Goss | The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter | |
| 2018 | Daryl Gregory | Spoonbenders | |
| 2017 | Claire North | The Sudden Appearance of Hope | |
| 2017 | Mishell Baker | Borderline | |
| 2017 | Betsy James | Roadsouls | |
| 2017 | N.K. Jemisin | The Obelisk Gate | 9 out of 10 |
| 2017 | Matt Ruff | Lovecraft Country | |
| 2016 | Anna Smaill | The Chimes | |
| 2016 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Buried Giant | |
| 2016 | N.K. Jemisin | The Fifth Season | 8 out of 10 |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | 8 out of 10 |
| 2016 | K.J. Parker | Savages | |
| 2016 | Paul Tremblay | A Head Full of Ghosts | |
| 2015 | David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | |
| 2015 | Katherine Addison | The Goblin Emperor | 8 out of 10 |
| 2015 | Robert Jackson Bennett | City of Stairs | |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | Authority | |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | Acceptance | |
| 2015 | Jo Walton | My Real Children | 9 out of 10 |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olondria | |
| 2014 | Richard Bowes | Dust Devil on a Quiet Street | |
| 2014 | Marie Brennan | A Natural History of Dragons | |
| 2014 | Neil Gaiman | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | |
| 2014 | Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni | |
| 2014 | Gene Wolfe | The Land Across | |
| 2013 | G. Willow Wilson | Alif the Unseen | |
| 2013 | N.K. Jemisin | The Killing Moon | |
| 2013 | Graham Joyce | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | |
| 2013 | Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | |
| 2013 | Anna Tambour | Crandolin | |
| 2012 | Lavie Tidhar | Osama | |
| 2012 | Christopher Buehlman | Those Across the River | |
| 2012 | Stephen King | 11/22/63 | |
| 2012 | George R.R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons | |
| 2012 | Jo Walton | Among Others | 10 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | |
| 2011 | Lauren Beukes | Zoo City | |
| 2011 | N.K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | 7 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Graham Joyce | The Silent Land | |
| 2011 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | 10 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Karen Lord | Redemption in Indigo | |
| 2010 | China Miéville | The City & The City | 9 out of 10 |
| 2010 | James Enge | Blood of Ambrose | |
| 2010 | Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Red Tree | |
| 2010 | Jeff VanderMeer | Finch | |
| 2010 | Kit Whitfield | In Great Waters | |
| 2009 | Jeffrey Ford | The Shadow Year | |
| 2009 | Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | |
| 2009 | Kage Baker | The House of the Stag | |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | 7 out of 10 |
| 2009 | Daryl Gregory | Pandemonium | |
| 2008 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Ysabel | 7 out of 10 |
| 2008 | Emma Bull | Territory | |
| 2008 | John Marks | Fangland | |
| 2008 | Will Shetterly | Gospel of the Knife | |
| 2008 | Michael Marshall Smith | The Servants | |
| 2007 | Gene Wolfe | Soldier of Sidon | |
| 2007 | Stephen King | Lisey's Story | |
| 2007 | Ellen Kushner | The Privilege of the Sword | |
| 2007 | Scott Lynch | The Lies of Locke Lamora | 8 out of 10 |
| 2007 | Catherynne M. Valente | In the Night Garden | |
| 2006 | Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore | |
| 2006 | Hal Duncan | Vellum | 9 out of 10 |
| 2006 | Bret Easton Ellis | Lunar Park | |
| 2006 | Graham Joyce | The Limits of Enchantment | |
| 2006 | Patricia A. McKillip | Od Magic | |
| 2006 | Paul Park | A Princess of Roumania | |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | 8 out of 10 |
| 2005 | Stephen R. Donaldson | The Runes of the Earth | |
| 2005 | China Miéville | Iron Council | |
| 2005 | Sean Stewart | Perfect Circle | |
| 2005 | Gene Wolfe | The Wizard Knight | |
| 2004 | Jo Walton | Tooth and Claw | 9 out of 10 |
| 2004 | K.J. Bishop | The Etched City | |
| 2004 | Kij Johnson | Fudoki | |
| 2004 | Ian R. MacLeod | The Light Ages | |
| 2004 | Jeff VanderMeer | Veniss Underground | |
| 2003 | Graham Joyce | The Facts of Life | |
| 2003 | Patricia A. McKillip | Ombria in Shadow | |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Ford | The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque | |
| 2003 | Gregory Frost | Fitcher's Brides | |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar | 9 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Other Wind | 8 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Ray Bradbury | From the Dust Returned | |
| 2002 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | 8 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | |
| 2002 | Charles de Lint | The Onion Girl | |
| 2002 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | 7 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Jay Russell | Brown Harvest | |
| 2001 | Tim Powers | Declare | |
| 2001 | Sean Stewart | Galveston | |
| 2001 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Lord of Emperors | 10 out of 10 |
| 2001 | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | 9 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | 7 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Paula Volsky | The Grand Ellipse | |
| 2000 | Martin Scott | Thraxas | |
| 2000 | Peter S. Beagle | Tamsin | |
| 2000 | James P. Blaylock | The Rainy Season | |
| 2000 | Steven Erikson | Gardens of the Moon | |
| 2000 | Terence M. Green | A Witness to Life | |
| 2000 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Red Heart of Memories | |
| 1999 | Louise Erdrich | The Antelope Wife | |
| 1999 | Charles de Lint | Someplace to Be Flying | 10 out of 10 |
| 1999 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Sailing to Sarantium | 9 out of 10 |
| 1999 | Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | |
| 1999 | Thomas Sullivan | The Martyring | |
| 1998 | Jeffrey Ford | The Physiognomy | |
| 1998 | Charles de Lint | Trader | |
| 1998 | Harvey Jacobs | American Goliath | |
| 1998 | Eric S. Nylund | Dry Water | |
| 1998 | Patrick O'Leary | The Gift | |
| 1997 | Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | |
| 1997 | Terence M. Green | Shadow of Ashland | |
| 1997 | William Kotzwinkle | The Bear Went Over the Mountain | |
| 1997 | Marc Laidlaw | The 37th Mandala | |
| 1997 | George R.R. Martin | A Game of Thrones | 7 out of 10 |
| 1997 | Melanie Rawn, et al. | The Golden Key | |
| 1997 | Mark Sumner | Devil's Tower | |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige | |
| 1996 | James P. Blaylock | All the Bells on Earth | |
| 1996 | Vikram Chandra | Red Earth and Pouring Rain | |
| 1996 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Silent Strength of Stones | |
| 1996 | Graham Joyce | Requiem | |
| 1996 | Tim Powers | Expiration Date | |
| 1995 | James Morrow | Towing Jehovah | |
| 1995 | Michael Bishop | Brittle Innings | |
| 1995 | Jonathan Carroll | From the Teeth of Angels | |
| 1995 | John Crowley | Love & Sleep | |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hand | Waking the Moon | |
| 1995 | Brooke Stevens | The Circus of the Earth and the Air | |
| 1994 | Lewis Shiner | Glimpses | |
| 1994 | Peter S. Beagle | The Innkeeper's Song | |
| 1994 | Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | |
| 1994 | Kathe Koja | Skin | |
| 1994 | Peter Straub | The Throat | |
| 1994 | Michael Swanwick | The Iron Dragon's Daughter | |
| 1994 | Judith Tarr | Lord of the Two Lands | |
| 1993 | Tim Powers | Last Call | |
| 1993 | Kim Newman | Anno Dracula | |
| 1993 | Geoff Ryman | Was | |
| 1993 | Steve Szilagyi | Photographing Fairies | |
| 1993 | Jane Yolen | Briar Rose | |
| 1992 | Robert R. McCammon | Boy's Life | |
| 1992 | A.A. Attanasio | Hunting the Ghost Dancer | |
| 1992 | James P. Blaylock | The Paper Grail | |
| 1992 | Emma Bull | Bone Dance | |
| 1992 | Jonathan Carroll | Outside the Dog Museum | |
| 1992 | Charles de Lint | The Little Country | |
| 1991 | Ellen Kushner | Thomas the Rhymer | 9 out of 10 |
| 1991 | James Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | |
| 1991 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | 8 out of 10 |
| 1991 | Valerie Martin | Mary Reilly | |
| 1991 | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | Good Omens | 8 out of 10 |
| 1990 | Jack Vance | Lyonesse: Madouc | |
| 1990 | Jonathan Carroll | A Child Across the Sky | |
| 1990 | Charles L. Grant | In a Dark Dream | |
| 1990 | Tim Powers | The Stress of Her Regard | |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | |
| 1990 | Gene Wolfe | Soldier of Arete | |
| 1989 | Peter Straub | Koko | |
| 1989 | James P. Blaylock | The Last Coin | |
| 1989 | Jonathan Carroll | Sleeping in Flame | |
| 1989 | Robert Cormier | Fade | |
| 1989 | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | |
| 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Drive-In | |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood | Replay | |
| 1988 | Clive Barker | Weaveworld | |
| 1988 | Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son | |
| 1988 | John Crowley | Ægypt | |
| 1988 | Stephen King | Misery | |
| 1988 | Robert R. McCammon | Swan Song | |
| 1988 | Tim Powers | On Stranger Tides | |
| 1987 | Patrick Süskind | Perfume | |
| 1987 | Terry Bisson | Talking Man | |
| 1987 | Charles L. Grant | The Pet | |
| 1987 | Stephen King | It | |
| 1987 | Dean R. Koontz | Strangers | |
| 1987 | Margaret Mahy | The Tricksters | |
| 1987 | Gene Wolfe | Soldier of the Mist | |
| 1986 | Dan Simmons | Song of Kali | |
| 1986 | Clive Barker | The Damnation Game | |
| 1986 | Peter Carey | Illywhacker | |
| 1986 | Lisa Goldstein | The Dream Years | |
| 1986 | Paul Hazel | Winterking | |
| 1986 | Anne Rice | The Vampire Lestat | |
| 1985 | Robert Holdstock | Mythago Wood | |
| 1985 | Barry Hughart | Bridge of Birds | 9 out of 10 |
| 1985 | Diana Wynne Jones | Archer's Goon | |
| 1985 | Stephen King & Peter Straub | The Talisman | |
| 1985 | T.E.D. Klein | The Ceremonies | |
| 1984 | John M. Ford | The Dragon Waiting | 6 out of 10 |
| 1984 | Stephen King | Pet Sematary | |
| 1984 | Manuel Mujica Lainez | The Wandering Unicorn | |
| 1984 | R.A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | |
| 1984 | George R.R. Martin | The Armageddon Rag | |
| 1984 | Jack Vance | Lyonesse | |
| 1983 | Michael Shea | Nifft the Lean | |
| 1983 | Charles L. Grant | The Nestling | |
| 1983 | George R.R. Martin | Fevre Dream | |
| 1983 | Thomas Tessier | Phantom | |
| 1983 | Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | 7 out of 10 |
| 1982 | John Crowley | Little, Big | 8 out of 10 |
| 1982 | Ramsey Campbell | The Nameless | |
| 1982 | Michael Moorcock | The War Hound and the World's Pain | |
| 1982 | D.M. Thomas | The White Hotel | |
| 1982 | Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | 8 out of 10 |
| 1981 | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | 8 out of 10 |
| 1981 | Parke Godwin | Firelord | |
| 1981 | Stephen King | The Mist | |
| 1981 | Peter Straub | Shadowland | |
| 1981 | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Ariosto | |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn | Watchtower | 6 out of 10 |
| 1980 | Charles L. Grant | The Last Call of Mourning | |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn | The Dancers of Arun | |
| 1980 | Patricia A. McKillip | Harpist in the Wind | 8 out of 10 |
| 1980 | Patricia Wrightson | The Dark Bright Water | |
| 1980 | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | The Palace | |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock | Gloriana | |
| 1979 | Les Daniels | The Black Castle | |
| 1979 | Charles L. Grant | The Sound of Midnight | |
| 1979 | Stephen King | The Stand | |
| 1979 | Tanith Lee | Night's Master | |
| 1978 | Fritz Leiber | Our Lady of Darkness | |
| 1979 | Stephen R. Donaldson | Lord Foul's Bane | 5 out of 10 |
| 1979 | Stephen R. Donaldson | The Illearth War | 5 out of 10 |
| 1979 | Stephen R. Donaldson | The Power That Preserves | 5 out of 10 |
| 1978 | Charles L. Grant | The Hour of the Oxrun Dead | |
| 1977 | William Kotzwinkle | Doctor Rat | |
| 1977 | Ramsey Campbell | The Doll Who Ate His Mother | |
| 1977 | Gordon R. Dickson | The Dragon and the George | |
| 1977 | Michael Moorcock | The Sailor on the Seas of Fate | |
| 1977 | John Steinbeck | The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights | |
| 1977 | Karl Edward Wagner | Dark Crusade | |
| 1976 | Richard Matheson | Bid Time Return | |
| 1976 | Stephen King | 'Salem's Lot | |
| 1975 | Patricia A. McKillip | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | |
| 1975 | Poul Anderson | A Midsummer Tempest | |
| 1975 | H. Warner Munn | Merlin's Ring |
Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.
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