World Fantasy Awards — Best Novel

• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

  2025World FantasyNovel
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ace Books by Ombria in Shadow

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

  2002World FantasyNovel
• 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
• 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
• William Morrow and Company by Thomas the Rhymer

  1991World FantasyNovel
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  Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow

  1991World FantasyNovel
• Madouc by Jack Vance

  1990World FantasyNovel
• 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
• 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
• Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle

  1977World FantasyNovel
• Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson

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

  1975World FantasyNovel