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This is a list of British Fantasy Award winners for best novel, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. This award is voted on by the members of the British Fantasy Society.
In 2011 and prior, this was the August Derleth award, which was awarded to the best book in either fantasy or horror. As of 2012, the award was split into the August Derleth award for best horror novel and the Robert Holdstock award for the best fantasy novel. Following my conventions for the rest of my award listings (and my lack of interest in horror), I am tracking only the Robert Holdstock award winners for 2012 and beyond.
| 2023 | Simon Jimenez | The Spear Cuts Through Water | |
| 2022 | Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | 7 out of 10 |
| 2021 | Alix E. Harrow | The Once and Future Witches | 8 out of 10 |
| 2020 | RJ Barker | The Bone Ships | |
| 2019 | Jen Williams | The Bitter Twins | |
| 2018 | Jen Williams | The Ninth Rain | |
| 2017 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Tiger and the Wolf | |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Uprooted | 8 out of 10 |
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge | Cuckoo Song | |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olondria | |
| 2013 | Graham Joyce | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | |
| 2012 | Jo Walton | Among Others | 10 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Sam Stone | Demon Dance | |
| 2010 | Conrad Williams | One | |
| 2009 | William Heaney | Memoirs of a Master Forger | |
| 2008 | Ramsey Campbell | The Grin of the Dark | |
| 2007 | Tim Lebbon | Dusk | |
| 2006 | Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys | 9 out of 10 |
| 2005 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | |
| 2004 | Christopher Fowler | Full Dark House | |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar | 9 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Simon Clark | The Night of the Triffids | |
| 2001 | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | 9 out of 10 |
| 2000 | Graham Joyce | Indigo | |
| 1999 | Stephen King | Bag of Bones | |
| 1998 | Chaz Brenchley | Light Errant | |
| 1997 | Graham Joyce | The Tooth Fairy | |
| 1996 | Graham Joyce | Requiem | |
| 1995 | Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward | 9 out of 10 |
| 1994 | Ramsey Campbell | The Long Lost | |
| 1993 | Graham Joyce | Dark Sister | |
| 1992 | Jonathan Carroll | Outside the Dog Museum | |
| 1991 | Ramsey Campbell | Midnight Sun | |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | |
| 1989 | Ramsey Campbell | The Influence | |
| 1988 | Ramsey Campbell | The Hungry Moon | |
| 1987 | Stephen King | It | |
| 1986 | T.E.D. Klein | The Ceremonies | |
| 1985 | Ramsey Campbell | Incarnate | |
| 1984 | Peter Straub | Floating Dragon | |
| 1983 | Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | 7 out of 10 |
| 1982 | Stephen King | Cujo | |
| 1981 | Ramsey Campbell | To Wake the Dead | |
| 1980 | Tanith Lee | Death's Master | |
| 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 | Piers Anthony | A Spell for Chameleon | |
| 1977 | Gordon R. Dickson | The Dragon and the George | |
| 1976 | Michael Moorcock | The Hollow Lands | |
| 1975 | Michael Moorcock | The Sword and the Stallion | |
| 1974 | Poul Anderson | Hrolf Kraki's Saga | |
| 1973 | Michael Moorcock | The King of the Swords | |
| 1972 | Michael Moorcock | The Knight of the Swords |
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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