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This is a list of John W. Campbell Memorial Award winners, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one.
This was a judged award for the best SF novel of the year published in the United States (not to be confused with the former John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer that's awarded with the Hugos and has been renamed to the Astounding Award). It was administered by the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas until James Gunn's death in 2020.
This award has not been given since 2019 after a change of management of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction following James Gunn's death. As of 2024, it is unclear whether it will be revived.
| 2019 | Sam J. Miller | Blackfish City | |
| 2018 | David Walton | The Genius Plague | |
| 2017 | Lavie Tidhar | Central Station | |
| 2016 | Eleanor Lerman | Radiomen | |
| 2015 | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | |
| 2014 | Marcel Theroux | Strange Bodies | |
| 2013 | Adam Roberts | Jack Glass | |
| 2012 | Christopher Priest | The Islanders | |
| 2012 | Joan Slonczewski | The Highest Frontier | |
| 2011 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | 7 out of 10 |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | 7 out of 10 |
| 2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | 7 out of 10 |
| 2009 | Ian R. MacLeod | Song of Time | |
| 2008 | Kathleen Ann Goonan | In War Times | |
| 2007 | Ben Bova | Titan | |
| 2006 | Robert J. Sawyer | Mindscan | |
| 2005 | Richard K. Morgan | Market Forces | |
| 2004 | Jack McDevitt | Omega | 7 out of 10 |
| 2003 | Nancy Kress | Probability Space | |
| 2002 | Robert Charles Wilson | The Chronoliths | |
| 2002 | Jack Williamson | Terraforming Earth | |
| 2001 | Poul Anderson | Genesis | |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | 8 out of 10 |
| 1999 | George Zebrowski | Brute Orbits | |
| 1998 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | 7 out of 10 |
| 1997 | Paul J. McAuley | Fairyland | 4 out of 10 |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | 4 out of 10 |
| 1995 | Greg Egan | Permutation City | |
| 1993 | Charles Sheffield | Brother to Dragons | 7 out of 10 |
| 1992 | Bradley Denton | Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede | |
| 1991 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Pacific Edge | |
| 1990 | Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden | |
| 1989 | Bruce Sterling | Islands in the Net | |
| 1988 | Connie Willis | Lincoln's Dreams | 7 out of 10 |
| 1987 | Joan Slonczewski | A Door Into Ocean | |
| 1986 | David Brin | The Postman | 4 out of 10 |
| 1985 | Frederik Pohl | The Years of the City | |
| 1984 | Gene Wolfe | The Citadel of the Autarch | 7 out of 10 |
| 1983 | Brian W. Aldiss | Helliconia Spring | |
| 1982 | Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker | |
| 1981 | Gregory Benford | Timescape | 5 out of 10 |
| 1980 | Thomas M. Disch | On Wings of Song | |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock | Gloriana | |
| 1978 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | 7 out of 10 |
| 1977 | Kingsley Amis | The Alteration | |
| 1975 | Philip K. Dick | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | |
| 1974 | Robert Merle | Malevil | |
| 1974 | Arthur C. Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama | 3 out of 10 |
| 1973 | Barry N. Malzberg | Beyond Apollo | |
| 1970 | Wilson Tucker | The Year of the Quiet Sun |
Also see the John W. Campbell finalists for a more comprehensive look at what received jury votes for the Campbell each year.
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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