World Fantasy Award Best Novel Winners — Complete List (1975–2025)

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

  2025World FantasyNovel

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• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

  2024World FantasyNovel

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  Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney

  2023World FantasyNovel

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  The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

  2022World FantasyNovel

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  Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

  2021World FantasyNovel

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  Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

  2020World FantasyNovel

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  Witchmark by C. L. Polk

  2019World FantasyNovel

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  The Changeling by Victor LaValle

  2018World FantasyNovel

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• Orbit Books by Jade City

  2018World FantasyNovel
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North

  2017World FantasyNovel
• The Chimes by Anna Smaill

  2016World FantasyNovel

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  The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

  2015World FantasyNovel

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  A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

  2014World FantasyNovel

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  Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

  2013World FantasyNovel

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  Osama by Lavie Tidhar

  2012World FantasyNovel

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  Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

  2011World FantasyNovel

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  The City & the City by China Miéville

  2010World FantasyNovel

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  The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford

  2009World FantasyNovel

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• Allen & Unwin,Alfred A. Knopf by Tender Morsels

  2009World FantasyNovel
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  Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

  2008World FantasyNovel

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  Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe

  2007World FantasyNovel

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  Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

  2006World FantasyNovel

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• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

  2005World FantasyNovel

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  Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

  2004World FantasyNovel

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  The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce

  2003World FantasyNovel

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• Ace Books by Ombria in Shadow

  2003World FantasyNovel
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  The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

  2002World FantasyNovel

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• Declare by Tim Powers

  2001World FantasyNovel

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  Ace Books by Galveston

  2001World FantasyNovel

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  Thraxas by Martin Scott

  2000World FantasyNovel

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  The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

  1999World FantasyNovel

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  The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford

  1998World FantasyNovel

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  Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack

  1997World FantasyNovel

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• The Prestige by Christopher Priest

  1996World FantasyNovel

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  Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow

  1995World FantasyNovel

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  Glimpses by Lewis Shiner

  1994World FantasyNovel

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  Last Call by Tim Powers

  1993World FantasyNovel

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  Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

  1992World FantasyNovel

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• William Morrow and Company by Thomas the Rhymer

  1991World FantasyNovel
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  Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow

  1991World FantasyNovel

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• Madouc by Jack Vance

  1990World FantasyNovel

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• Koko by Peter Straub

  1989World FantasyNovel

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  Replay by Ken Grimwood

  1988World FantasyNovel

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  Perfume by Patrick Süskind

  1987World FantasyNovel

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  Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

  1986World FantasyNovel

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• Victor Gollancz by Mythago Wood

  1985World FantasyNovel
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  Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

  1985World FantasyNovel

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  The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

  1984World FantasyNovel

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  Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea

  1983World FantasyNovel

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  Little, Big by John Crowley

  1982World FantasyNovel

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  The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

  1981World FantasyNovel

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  Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn

  1980World FantasyNovel

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  Gloriana by Michael Moorcock

  1979World FantasyNovel

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  Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber

  1978World FantasyNovel

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• Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle

  1977World FantasyNovel

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• Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson

  1976World FantasyNovel
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  The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

  1975World FantasyNovel

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