# Aurora Award for Best Novel

The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Novel was first awarded in 1982 as the Award for Best Outstanding Work, and there are two awards, one granted to an English-language work and one to a French-language work. Until 1989, it was dedicated to any works, including non-novel-length works. It became a dedicated category in 1989 as the Award for Best Long Form (French: Meilleur Livre). It won the Award for Best Novel (French: Meilleur Roman) in 2011 when the Prix Aurora and Prix Boreal combined. No winner was awarded in 1983 and 1986, but shortlists were created.
Robert J. Sawyer has won the English-language award the most times (eight times), and Élisabeth Vonarburg has won the French-language award the most times (seven times).

## English-language Award
### Winners and nominees

* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
| 1982 | Phyllis Gotlieb* | Judgement of Dragons | Berkley | |
| 1982 | John Robert Colombo (editor) | Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic set in Canada | Hounslow | |
| 1982 | Charles R. Saunders | Imaro | DAW | |
| 1982 | Lesley Choyce & John Bell (editors) | Visions from the Edge | Pottersfield | |
| 1983 | No winner selected | No winner selected | No winner selected | |
| 1983 | Michael G. Coney | Cat Karina | Ace | |
| 1983 | Crawford Killian | Eyas | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1983 | Pauline Gedge | Stargate | Macmillan | |
| 1983 | Andrew Weiner | Station Gehanna | F&SF (Apr. 1982) | |
| 1983 | John Robert Colombo | Wendigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction | Prairie | |
| 1984 | Not awarded; no nominees | Not awarded; no nominees | Not awarded; no nominees | Not awarded; no nominees |
| 1985 | Eileen Kernaghan | Songs from the Drowned Lands | Ace | |
| 1985 | Michael G. Coney | The Celestial Steam Locomotive | HMH | |
| 1985 | Spider Robinson | Melancholy Elephants | Analog (Jun. 1982) | |
| 1985 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Ace | |
| 1986 | No winner selected | No winner selected | No winner selected | |
| 1986 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 1986 | Phyllis Gotlieb | The Kingdom of the Cats | Ace | |
| 1986 | Charles de Lint | Mulengro | Ace | |
| 1987 | Guy Gavriel Kay | The Wandering Fire | Collins | |
| 1987 | Robert Charles Wilson | A Hidden Place | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1987 | Crawford Killian | Lifter | Ace | |
| 1987 | Charles de Lint | Yarrow (novel) | Ace | |
| 1988 | Charles de Lint | Jack, the Giant Killer | Ace | |
| 1988 | Guy Gavriel Kay | The Darkest Road | Collins | |
| 1988 | Robert Charles Wilson | Memory Wire | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1988 | Spider Robinson | Time Pressure | HRW | |
| 1989 | William Gibson | Mona Lisa Overdrive | Gollancz | |
| 1989 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Machine Sex and Other Stories | Porcépic | |
| 1989 | Robert Charles Wilson | Memory Wire | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1989 | Spider Robinson | Time Pressure | HRW | |
| 1989 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | The Silent City | Porcépic | |
| 1990 | Dave Duncan | West of January | Del Rey | |
| 1990 | Terence M. Green | Barking Dogs | St. Martin's | |
| 1990 | Tanya Huff | Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light | DAW | |
| 1990 | Robert Charles Wilson | Gypsies | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Crawford Killian | Rogue Emperor | Del Rey | |
| 1990 | Eileen Kernaghan | The Sarsen Witch | Ace | |
| 1991 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | Viking | |
| 1991 | Tanya Huff | Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light | DAW | |
| 1991 | Robert Charles Wilson | Gypsies | Bantam | |
| 1991 | Robert J. Sawyer | Golden Fleece | Warner | |
| 1991 | Michael G. Coney | King of the Scepter'd Isle | Dutton | |
| 1992 | Robert J. Sawyer | Golden Fleece | Warner | |
| 1992 | Tanya Huff | Blood Price | DAW | |
| 1992 | William Gibson & Bruce Sterling | The Difference Engine | Gollancz | |
| 1992 | Robert Charles Wilson | The Divide | Doubleday | |
| 1992 | Spider Robinson | Kill the Editor | Axolotl | |
| 1992 | Charles de Lint | The Little Country | Morrow | |
| 1993 | Sean Stewart | Passion Play | Beach Holme | |
| 1993 | Tanya Huff | Blood Trail | DAW | |
| 1993 | Terence M. Green | Children of the Rainbow | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 1993 | Robert J. Sawyer | Far-Seer | Ace | |
| 1993 | Guy Gavriel Kay | A Song for Arbonne | Viking | |
| 1994 | Sean Stewart | Nobody's Son | Macmillan | |
| 1994 | Robert J. Sawyer | Far-Seer | Ace | |
| 1994 | Guy Gavriel Kay | A Song for Arbonne | Viking | |
| 1994 | William Gibson | Virtual Light | Seal | |
| 1995 | William Gibson | Virtual Light | Seal | |
| 1995 | Spider Robinson | Callahan's Touch | Ace | |
| 1995 | Robert J. Sawyer | End of an Era | Ace | |
| 1995 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1995 | Nancy Kilpatrick | Near Death | Pocket | |
| 1996 | Robert J. Sawyer | The Terminal Experiment | Harper Prism | |
| 1996 | Dave Duncan | The Cursed | Del Rey | |
| 1996 | Guy Gavriel Kay | The Lions of Al-Rassan | Viking | |
| 1996 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium | Bantam Spectra | |
| 1996 | Sean Stewart | Resurrection Man | Ace | |
| 1996 | Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson | Star Mind | Ace | |
| 1997 | Robert J. Sawyer | Starplex | Ace | |
| 1997 | Nancy Kilpatrick | Child of the Night | Raven | |
| 1997 | Tanya Huff | No Quarter | DAW | |
| 1997 | Sean Stewart | Resurrection Man | Ace | |
| 1997 | Terence M. Green | Shadow of Ashland | Tor | |
| 1998 | Candas Jane Dorsey | Black Wine | Tor | |
| 1998 | Robert J. Sawyer | Frameshift | Tor | |
| 1998 | Robert J. Sawyer | Illegal Alien | Ace | |
| 1998 | Terence M. Green | Shadow of Ashland | Tor | |
| 1998 | Charles de Lint | Trader | Tor | |
| 1999 | Robert Charles Wilson | Darwinia | Tor | |
| 1999 | Nancy Kilpatrick | Dracul: An Eternal Love Story | Lucard | |
| 1999 | Robert J. Sawyer | Factoring Humanity | Tor | |
| 1999 | Phyllis Gotlieb | Flesh and Gold | Tor | |
| 1999 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Sailing to Sarantium | Viking | |
| 1999 | Charles De Lint | Someplace to be Flying | Tor | |
| 2000 | Robert J. Sawyer | Flashforward | Tor | |
| 2000 | Julie E. Czerneda | Beholder's Eye | DAW | |
| 2000 | Robert Charles Wilson | Bios | Tor | |
| 2000 | Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | Warner Aspect | |
| 2000 | Edo van Belkom | Death Drives a Semi | Quarry | |
| 2000 | Peter Watts | Starfish | Tor | |
| 2001 | Eileen Kernaghan | The Snow Queen | Thistledown | |
| 2001 | Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | Tor | |
| 2001 | Julie E. Czerneda | Changing Vision | DAW | |
| 2001 | James Alan Gardner | Hunted | Eos | |
| 2001 | Lisa Smedman | The Playback War | Warner Aspect | |
| 2002 | Julie E. Czerneda | In the Company of Others | DAW | |
| 2002 | James Alan Gardner | Ascending | Eos | |
| 2002 | Robert Charles Wilson | The Chronoliths | Tor | |
| 2002 | Peter Watts | Maelstrom | Tor | |
| 2002 | Edo van Belkom | Teeth | Meisha Merlin | |
| 2003 | Karl Schroeder | Permanence | Tor | |
| 2003 | Robert J. Sawyer | Hominids | Tor | |
| 2003 | Edo van Belkom | Martyrs | DIG | |
| 2003 | Julie E. Czerneda | To Trade the Stars | DAW | |
| 2003 | Karin Lowachee | Warchild | DAW | |
| 2004 | Robert Charles Wilson | Blind Lake | Tor | |
| 2004 | Karin Lowachee | Burndive | Warner Aspect | |
| 2004 | Julie E. Czerneda | Hidden in Sight | DAW | |
| 2004 | Robert J. Sawyer | Humans | Tor | |
| 2004 | Edo van Belkom | Scream Queen | Pinnacle | |
| 2004 | Caitlin Sweet | A Telling of Stars | Penguin | |
| 2005 | Edo van Belkom | Wolf Pack | Tundra | |
| 2005 | Eileen Kernaghan | The Alchemist's Daughter | Thistledown | |
| 2005 | Matthew Hughes | Black Brillion | Tor | |
| 2005 | Stephanie Bedwell-Grime | Fallen Angel | Telos | |
| 2005 | James Alan Gardner | Radiant | Eos | |
| 2005 | Julie E. Czerneda | Survival | DAW | |
| 2006 | Karin Lowachee | Cagebird | Warner Aspect | |
| 2006 | Edo van Belkom | Lone Wolf | Tundra | |
| 2006 | Julie E. Czerneda | Migration | DAW | |
| 2006 | Robert J. Sawyer | Mindscan | Tor | |
| 2006 | Caitlin Sweet | Silences of Home | Penguin | |
| 2006 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | Tor | |
| 2007 | Dave Duncan | Children of Chaos | Tor | |
| 2007 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | Tor | |
| 2007 | Julie E. Czerneda | Regeneration | DAW | |
| 2007 | Lynda Williams | Righteous Anger | Edge | |
| 2007 | Tanya Huff | Smoke and Ashes | DAW | |
| 2007 | Karl Schroeder | Sun of Suns | Tor | |
| 2008 | Nalo Hopkinson | The New Moon’s Arms | Warner | |
| 2008 | Denys Bridger | As Fate Decrees | Edge | |
| 2008 | Edo van Belkom | Cry Wolf | McClelland & Stewart/Tundra | |
| 2008 | Derwin Mak | The Moon Under Her Feet | Windstorm | |
| 2008 | Robert J. Sawyer | Rollback | Tor | |
| 2009 | Edward Willett | Marseguro | DAW | |
| 2009 | Ursula Pflug | After the Fires | Tightrope | |
| 2009 | Hayden Trenholm | Defending Diana | Bundoran | |
| 2009 | Robert J. Sawyer | Identity Theft and Other Stories | Red Deer | |
| 2009 | Douglas Smith | Impossibilia | PS | |
| 2010 | Robert J. Sawyer | Wake | Penguin | |
| 2010 | Leslie Carmichael | The Amulet of Amon-Ra | CBAY | |
| 2010 | Barbara Galler-Smith & Josh Langston | Druids | Edge | |
| 2010 | Hayden Trenholm | Steel Whispers | Bundoran | |
| 2010 | Edward Willett | Terra Insegura | DAW | |
| 2011 | Robert J. Sawyer | Watch | Penguin | |
| 2011 | Craig Russell | Black Bottle Man | Great Plains | |
| 2011 | Marie Bilodeau | Destiny’s Blood | Dragon Moon | |
| 2011 | Hayden Trenholm | Stealing Home | Bundoran | |
| 2011 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | Viking | |
| 2012 | Robert J. Sawyer | Wonder | Penguin | |
| 2012 | Michael Rowe | Enter, Night | ChiZine | |
| 2012 | David Nickle | Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism | ChiZine | |
| 2012 | Derryl Murphy | Napier’s Bones | ChiZine | |
| 2012 | Caitlin Sweet | The Pattern Scars | ChiZine | |
| 2012 | Ryan Oakley | Technicolor Ultra Mall | Edge | |
| 2013 | Tanya Huff | The Silvered | DAW | |
| 2013 | Marie Bilodeau | Destiny’s Fall | Dragon Moon | |
| 2013 | Karen Dudley | Food for the Gods | Ravenstone | |
| 2013 | Lynda Williams | Healer's Sword | Edge | |
| 2013 | Chadwick Ginther | Thunder Road | Ravenstone | |
| 2013 | Robert J. Sawyer | Triggers | Penguin | |
| 2014 | Julie E. Czerneda | A Turn of Light | DAW | |
| 2014 | Robert J. Sawyer | Red Planet Blues | Penguin | |
| 2014 | Guy Gavriel Kay | River of Stars | Viking | |
| 2014 | Susan MacGregor | The Tattooed Witch | Five Rivers | |
| 2014 | Chadwick Ginther | Tombstone Blues | Ravenstone | |
| 2015 | Julie E. Czerneda | A Play of Shadow | DAW | |
| 2015 | Peter Watts | Echopraxia | Tor | |
| 2015 | Tanya Huff | The Future Falls | DAW | |
| 2015 | Jo Walton | My Real Children | Tor | |
| 2015 | William Gibson | The Peripheral | Penguin | |
| 2016 | A. M. Dellamonica | A Daughter of No Nation | Tor | |
| 2016 | Ryan T. McFadden | Cursed: Black Swan | Dragon Moon | |
| 2016 | E. C. Bell | Drowning in Amber | Tyche | |
| 2016 | Randy McCharles | Much Ado About Macbeth | Tyche | |
| 2016 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Signal to Noise | Solaris | |
| 2016 | Chadwick Ginther | Too Far Gone | Ravenstone | |
| 2017 | Robert J. Sawyer | Quantum Night | Penguin | |
| 2017 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Children of Earth and Sky | Viking | |
| 2017 | Madeline Ashby | Company Town | Tor | |
| 2017 | Gerald Brandt | The Courier | DAW | |
| 2017 | A. M. Dellamonica | The Nature of a Pirate | Tor | |
| 2017 | Brent Nichols | Stars Like Cold Fire | Bundoran | |
| 2018 | Fonda Lee | Jade City | Orbit | |
| 2018 | James Alan Gardner | All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault | Tor | |
| 2018 | Brent Nichols | Light of a Distant Sun | Bundoran | |
| 2018 | Gerald Brandt | The Rebel | DAW | |
| 2018 | Costi Gurgu | RecipeArium | White Cat | |
| 2018 | Julie E. Czerneda | To Guard Against the Dark | DAW | |
| 2019 | Kate Heartfield | Armed in Her Fashion | ChiZine | |
| 2019 | Chadwick Ginther | Graveyard Mind | ChiZine | |
| 2019 | Craig DiLouie | One of Us | Orbit | |
| 2019 | James Alan Gardner | They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded | Tor | |
| 2019 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Magician | Solaris | |
| 2019 | C. L. Polk | Witchmark | Tor | |
| 2020 | Julie E. Czerneda | The Gossamer Mage | DAW | |
| 2020 | Guy Gavriel Kay | A Brightness Long Ago | Viking Canada | |
| 2020 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Gods of Jade and Shadow | Del Rey | |
| 2020 | E. C. Bell | Haunting the Haunted | Tyche | |
| 2020 | Fonda Lee | Jade War | Orbit | |
| 2020 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Garden | Solaris | |
| 2021 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Mexican Gothic | Random House | |
| 2021 | Premee Mohamed | Beneath the Rising | Solaris | |
| 2021 | Randy McCharles | A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur’s Court | Tyche | |
| 2021 | Robert J. Sawyer | The Oppenheimer Alternative | Red Deer Press | |
| 2021 | Kelley Armstrong | A Stitch in Time | KLA Fricke | |
| 2022 | Fonda Lee | Jade Legacy | Orbit | |
| 2022 | Premee Mohamed | A Broken Darkness | Solaris | |
| 2022 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum War | Solaris | |
| 2022 | David Demchuk | RED X | Strange Light | |
| 2022 | C. L. Polk | Soulstar | Tor | |
| 2023 | Kate Heartfield | The Embroidered Book | HarperVoyager | |
| 2023 | Guy Gavriel Kay | All the Seas of the World | Penguin | |
| 2023 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Del Rey | |
| 2023 | Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility | HarperCollins | |
| 2023 | Premee Mohamed | The Void Ascendant | Solaris | |
| 2024 | Kate Heartfield | The Valkyrie | HarperVoyager | |
| 2024 | Jessica Johns | Bad Cree | HarperCollins Canada | |
| 2024 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Silver Nitrate | Del Rey | |
| 2024 | Waubgeshig Rice | Moon of the Turning Leaves | Random House Canada | |
| 2024 | Andrew F. Sullivan | The Marigold | ECW Press | |

### Best of the Decade

A special award was handed out in 2017 for the best novel or series of the 2000s. If continued, this award will be given out once every 10 years.
* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication |
| 2017 | Robert J. Sawyer* | The Neanderthal Parallax | Tor |
| 2017 | Robert Charles Wilson | Blind Lake | Tor |
| 2017 | William Gibson | Blue Ant | Berkley |
| 2017 | Steven Erikson | Malazan Book of the Fallen | Tor |
| 2017 | Charles de Lint | The Onion Girl | Tor |
| 2017 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | Viking |

## French-language Award
### Winners and nominees

* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication |
| 1989 | Charles Montpetit | Temps mort (Time Out) | Paulines |
| 1990 | Jacques Brossard | Les Années d'apprentissage (Years of Learning) | Leméac |
| 1991 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Histoire de la princesse et du dragon (Story of the Princess and the Dragon) | Québec/Amérique |
| 1992 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Ailleurs et au Japon (Elsewhere and in Japan) | Québec/Amérique |
| 1993 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Chroniques du Pays des Mères (The Maerlande Chronicles) | Québec/Amérique |
| 1994 | Daniel Sernine | Chronoreg | Québec/Amérique |
| 1995 | Joël Champetier | La Mémoire du lac (Memory of the Lake) | Québec/Amérique |
| 1996 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Les Voyageurs malgré eux (Travellers, Despite Themselves) | Québec/Amérique |
| 1997 | Yves Meynard | La rose du desert (The Desert Rose) | Unknown |
| 1998 | Jean-Pierre Guillet | L'odyssée du Penelope (The Odyssey of the Penelope) | Éditions Héritage |
| 1999 | Alain Bergeron | Corps-machines et rêves d'anges (Body-Machines and the Dreams of Angels) | Vent D'Ouest |
| 2000 | Francine Pelletier | Samiva de Frée | Alire |
| 2001 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Demain, les étoiles (Tomorrow, the Stars) | Pierre Tisseyre |
| 2002 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Les Transfigurés du Centaure (The Transfigured Centaurs) | Médiaspaul |
| 2003 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (The Return of Fomalhaut) | Médiaspaul |
| 2004 | Alain Bergeron | Phaos | Alire |
| 2005 | Michèle Laframboise | Les Mémoires de l'arc (Memories of the Arc) | Médiaspaul |
| 2006 | Dominic Bellavance | Alégracia et le serpent d'argent (Alégracia and the Silver Snake) | Les Six Brumes |
| 2007 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | La Princesse de vengeance (The Vengeance Princess) | Alire |
| 2008 | Diane Boudreau | Cimetière du musée (Museum Cemetery) | Unknown |
| 2009 | Michèle Laframboise | Les Vents de Tammerlan (The Winds of Tammerlan) | Médiaspaul |
| 2010 | Laurent McAllister | Suprématie (Supremacy) | Bragelonne |
| 2011 | Héloïse Côté | La Tueuse de dragons (The Dragon Slayer) | Alire |
| 2012 | Éric Gauthier | Montréel | Alire |
| 2013 | Ariane Gélinas | Transtaïga | Unknown |
| 2014 | Sébastien Chartrand | L'Ensorceleuse de Pointe-Lévy (The Enchantress of Pointe-Lévy) | Alire |
| 2014 | Ariane Gélinas | L'île aux naufrages (The Island of Shipwrecks) | Marchand de Feuilles |
| 2014 | Patrick Senécal | Ce qui se passe dans la cave reste dans la cave (What Happens in the Cave Remains in the Cave) | Alire |
| 2015 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Hôtel Olympia (Hotel Olympia) | Alire |
| 2015 | Marilou Addison | Anita | Mortagne |
| 2015 | Ariane Gélinas | Escalana | Marchand de Feuilles |
| 2015 | Frédéric Raymond | Jardin de chair (Garden of Flesh) | Les Six Brumes |
| 2015 | Patrick Senécal | Grande liquidation (Grand Liquidation) | Alire |
| 2015 | Daniel Sernine | Les Îles du ciel (Islands of the Sky) | Soulières |
| 2016 | Philippe-Aubert Côté | Le Jeu du Démiurge (The Demiurge Game) | Alire |
| 2016 | Frédérick Durand | Au rendez-vous des courtisans glacés (A Rendezvous of Icy Courtesans) | Les Six Brumes |
| 2016 | Frédérick Durand | Quand s'éteindra la dernière chandelle (When the Last Candle is Exhausted) | Black Coat |
| 2016 | Éric Gauthier | Le Grande mort de mononc' Morbide (The Grand Death of Mononc Morbid) | Alire |
| 2016 | Yves Meynard | Les Marches de la lune morte (Steps on the Dead Moon) | Alire |
| 2017 | Ariane Gélinas* | Les Cendres de Sedna (The Ashes of Cedna) | Alire |
| 2017 | Sébastien Chartrand | Le sorcier de l’Île d’Orléans (The Sorcerer of Orléans Island) | Alire |
| 2017 | Héloïse Côté | Les monstres intérieurs (Indoor Monsters) | Alire |
| 2017 | Martine Desjardins | La chambre verte (Green Room) | Alto |
| 2017 | Frédéric Raymond | L’arbre maléfique(The Evil Tree) | Éditions du Phoenix |
| 2018 | Karoline Georges* | De synthèse (Of Synthesis) | Alto |
| 2018 | David Calvo | Toxoplasma | La Volte |
| 2018 | Yvan Godbout | Hansel et Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) | AdA |
| 2018 | Michèle Laframboise | La ruche (The Hive) | Les Six Brumes |
| 2018 | Matthieu Villeneuve | Borealium tremens | La Peuplade |
| 2019 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Les Pierres et les Roses. Tome 1, 2 et 3 | Alire |
| 2019 | Yves Meynard | Chrysanthe t.1 La princess perdue | Alire |
| 2019 | Simon Rousseau | La Reine des Neiges | ADA |
| 2019 | Stéphanie Sylvain | Le roi des ombres | Numeriklivres |
| 2019 | Christiane Vadnais | Faunes | ALTO |
| 2020 | Patrick Senécal | Ceux de là-bas | Alire |
| 2021 | Jonathan Reynolds | Abîmes | Alire |
| 2022 | Bernard Gilbert | Les Singes bariolés | Québec Amérique |