Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gives awards for good Science Fiction writing. Each year they give the **Nebula Award for Best Novel**. In this list, the year means the year that the book was published; awards are given the next year.

## Winners and other nominees

|Year|Winner|Other authors and books that were named as very good|
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|_Dune_ by Frank Herbert<sup>1</sup>|* _All Flesh is Grass_ by Clifford D. Simak * _The Clone_ by Theodore Thomas & Kate Wilhelm * _Dr. Bloodmoney_ by Philip K. Dick * _The Escape Orbit_ by James White * _The Genocides_ by Thomas M. Disch * _Nova Express_ by William Burroughs * _A Plague of Demons_ by Keith Laumer * _Rogue Dragon_ by Avram Davidson * _The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream_ by G. C. Edmondson * _The Star Fox_ by Poul Anderson * _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch_ by Philip K. Dick||
|(tie) * _Babel-17_ by Samuel R. Delany * _Flowers for Algernon_ by Daniel Keyes|* _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ by Robert A. Heinlein<sup>1</sup>||
|_The Einstein Intersection_ by Samuel R. Delany|* _Chthon_ by Piers Anthony * _The Eskimo Invasion_ by Hayden Howard * _Lord of Light_ by Roger Zelazny<sup>1</sup> * _Thorns_ by Robert Silverberg||
|_Rite of Passage_ by Alexei Panshin|* _Black Easter_ by James Blish * _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ by Philip K. Dick * _The Masks of Time_ by Robert Silverberg * _Past Master_ by R. A. Lafferty * _Picnic on Paradise_ by Joanna Russ * _Stand on Zanzibar_ by John Brunner<sup>1</sup>||
|_The Left Hand of Darkness_ by Ursula K. Le Guin<sup>1</sup>|* _Bug Jack Barron_ by Norman Spinrad * _Isle of the Dead_ by Roger Zelazny * _The Jagged Orbit_ by John Brunner * _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut * _Up the Line_ by Robert Silverberg||
|_Ringworld_ by Larry Niven<sup>1</sup>|* _And Chaos Died_ by Joanna Russ * _Fourth Mansions_ by R. A. Lafferty * _The Steel Crocodile_ by D. G. Compton * _Tower of Glass_ by Robert Silverberg * _The Year of the Quiet Sun_ by Wilson Tucker||
|_A Time of Changes_ by Robert Silverberg|* _The Byworlder_ by Poul Anderson * _The Devil is Dead_ by R. A. Lafferty * _Half Past Human_ by T. J. Bass * _The Lathe of Heaven_ by Ursula K. Le Guin * _Margaret and I_ by Kate Wilhelm||
|_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov<sup>1</sup>|* _The Book of Skulls_ by Robert Silverberg * _Dying Inside_ by Robert Silverberg * _The Iron Dream_ by Norman Spinrad * _The Sheep Look Up_ by John Brunner * _What Entropy Means to Me_ by George Alec Effinger * _When Harlie Was One_ by David Gerrold||
|_Rendezvous with Rama_ by Arthur C. Clarke<sup>1</sup>|* _Gravity's Rainbow_ by Thomas Pynchon * _The Man Who Folded Himself_ by David Gerrold * _The People of the Wind_ by Poul Anderson * _Time Enough for Love_ by Robert A. Heinlein||
|_The Dispossessed_ by Ursula K. Le Guin<sup>1</sup>|* _334_ by Thomas M. Disch * _Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said_ by Philip K. Dick * _The Godwhale_ by T. J. Bass||
|_The Forever War_ by Joe Haldeman<sup>1</sup>|* _Autumn Angels_ by Arthur Byron * _The Birthgrave_ by Tanith Lee * _The Computer Connection_ by Alfred Bester * _Dhalgren_ by Samuel R. Delany * _Doorways in the Sand_ by Roger Zelazny * _The Embedding_ by Ian Watson * _The Exile Waiting_ by Vonda N. McIntyre * _The Female Man_ by Joanna Russ * _A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire_ by Michael Bishop * _Guernica Night_ by Barry N. Malzberg * _The Heritage of Hastur_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley * _Invisible Cities_ by Italo Calvino * _A Midsummer Tempest_ by Poul Anderson * _The Missing Man_ by Katherine Maclean * _The Mote in God's Eye_ by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle * _Ragtime_ by E. L. Doctorow * _The Stochastic Man_ by Robert Silverberg||
|_Man Plus_ by Frederik Pohl|* _Inferno_ by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle * _Islands_ by Marta Randall * _Shadrach in the Furnace_ by Robert Silverberg * _Triton_ by Samuel R. Delany * _Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang_ by Kate Wilhelm <sup>1</sup>||
|_Gateway_ by Frederik Pohl<sup>1</sup>|* _Cirque_ by Terry Carr * _In the Ocean of Night_ by Gregory Benford * _Moonstar Odyssey_ by David Gerrold * _Sword of Demon_ by Richard A. Lupoff||
|_Dreamsnake_ by Vonda McIntyre<sup>1</sup>|* _Blind Voices_ by Tom Reamy * _The Faded Sun: Kesrith_ by C. J. Cherryh * _Kalki_ by Gore Vidal * _Strangers_ by Gardner Dozois||
|_The Fountains of Paradise_ by Arthur C. Clarke<sup>1</sup>|* _Jem_ by Frederik Pohl * _Juniper Time_ by Kate Wilhelm * _On Wings of Song_ by Thomas M. Disch * _The Road to Corlay_ by Richard Cowper * _Titan_ by John Varley||
|_Timescape_ by Gregory Benford|* _Beyond the Blue Event Horizon_ by Frederik Pohl * _Mockingbird_ by Walter Tevis * _The Orphan_ by Robert Stallman * _The Shadow of the Torturer_ by Gene Wolfe * _The Snow Queen_ by Joan D. Vinge <sup>1</sup>||
|_The Claw of the Conciliator_ by Gene Wolfe|* _Little, Big_ by John Crowley * _The Many-Colored Land_ by Julian May * _Radix_ by A. A. Attanasio * _Riddley Walker_ by Russell Hoban * _The Vampire Tapestry_ by Suzy McKee Charnas||
|_No Enemy But Time_ by Michael Bishop|* _Foundation's Edge_ by Isaac Asimov<sup>1</sup> * _Friday_ by Robert A. Heinlein * _Helliconia Spring_ by Brian Aldiss * _The Sword of the Lictor_ by Gene Wolfe * _The Transmigration of Timothy Archer_ by Philip K. Dick||
|_Startide Rising_ by David Brin<sup>1</sup>|* _Against Infinity_ by Gregory Benford * _The Citadel of the Autarch_ by Gene Wolfe * _Lyonesse_ by Jack Vance * _Tea with the Black Dragon_ by R. A. MacAvoy * _The Void Captain's Tale_ by Norman Spinrad||
|_Neuromancer_ by William Gibson<sup>1</sup>|* _Frontera_ by Lewis Shiner * _The Integral Trees_ by Larry Niven * _Job: A Comedy of Justice_ by Robert A. Heinlein * _The Man Who Melted_ by Jack Dann * _The Wild Shore_ by Kim Stanley Robinson||
|_Ender's Game_ by Orson Scott Card<sup>1</sup>|* _Blood Music_ by Greg Bear * _Dinner at Deviant's Palace_ by Tim Powers * _Helliconia Winter_ by Brian Aldiss * _The Postman_ by David Brin * _The Remaking of Sigmund Freud_ by Barry N. Malzberg * _Schismatrix_ by Bruce Sterling||
|_Speaker for the Dead_ by Orson Scott Card<sup>1</sup>|* _Count Zero_ by William Gibson * _Free Live Free_ by Gene Wolfe * _The Handmaid's Tale_ by Margaret Atwood * _The Journal of Nicholas the American_ by Leigh Kennedy * _This is the Way the World Ends_ by James Morrow||
|_The Falling Woman_ by Pat Murphy|* _The Forge of God_ by Greg Bear * _Soldier of the Mist_ by Gene Wolfe * _The Uplift War_ by David Brin<sup>1</sup> * _Vergil in Averno_ by Avram Davidson * _When Gravity Fails_ by George Alec Effinger||
|_Falling Free_ by Lois McMaster Bujold|* _Deserted Cities of the Heart_ by Lewis Shiner * _Drowning Towers_ by George Turner * _Great Sky River_ by Gregory Benford * _Mona Lisa Overdrive_ by William Gibson * _Red Prophet_ by Orson Scott Card * _The Urth of the New Sun_ by Gene Wolfe||
|_The Healer's War_ by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough|* _The Boat of a Million Years_ by Poul Anderson * _Prentice Alvin_ by Orson Scott Card * _Good News From Outer Space_ by John Kessel * _Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future_ by Mike Resnick * _Sister Light, Sister Dark_ by Jane Yolen||
|_Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea_ by Ursula K. Le Guin|* _Mary Reilly_ by Valerie Martin * _Only Begotten Daughter_ by James Morrow * _The Fall of Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons * _Redshift Rendezvous_ by John E. Stith * _White Jenna_ by Jane Yolen||
|_Stations of the Tide_ by Michael Swanwick|* _Orbital Resonance_ by John Barnes * _Barrayar_ by Lois McMaster Bujold <sup>1</sup> * _Bone Dance_ by Emma Bull * _Synners_ by Pat Cadigan * _The Difference Engine_ by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson||
|_Doomsday Book_ by Connie Willis<sup>1</sup>|* _A Million Open Doors_ by John Barnes * _Sarah Canary_ by Karen Joy Fowler * _China Mountain Zhang_ by Maureen F. McHugh * _A Fire Upon the Deep_ by Vernor Vinge<sup>1</sup> * _Briar Rose_ by Jane Yolen||
|_Red Mars_ by Kim Stanley Robinson|* _Assemblers of Infinity_ by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason * _Hard Landing_ by Algis Budrys * _Beggars in Spain_ by Nancy Kress * _Nightside the Long Sun_ by Gene Wolfe||
|_Moving Mars_ by Greg Bear|* _Parable of the Sower_ by Octavia E. Butler * _Gun, with Occasional Music_ by Jonathan Lethem * _Towing Jehovah_ by James Morrow * _Temporary Agency_ by Rachel Pollack * _Green Mars_ by Kim Stanley Robinson<sup>1</sup> * _A Night in the Lonesome October_ by Roger Zelazny||
|_The Terminal Experiment_ by Robert J. Sawyer|* _Mother of Storms_ by John Barnes * _Beggars and Choosers_ by Nancy Kress * _Celestis_ by Paul Park * _Metropolitan_ by Walter Jon Williams * _Calde of the Long Sun_ by Gene Wolfe||
|_Slow River_ by Nicola Griffith|* _The Silent Strength of Stones_ by Nina Kiriki Hoffman * _Winter Rose_ by Patricia A. McKillip * _Expiration Date_ by Tim Powers * _Starplex_ by Robert J. Sawyer * _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson <sup>1</sup>||
|_The Moon and the Sun_ by Vonda McIntyre|* _Memory_ by Lois McMaster Bujold * _King's Dragon_ by Kate Elliott * _A Game of Thrones_ by George R. R. Martin * _Ancient Shores_ by Jack McDevitt * _City on Fire_ by Walter Jon Williams * _Bellwether_ by Connie Willis||
|_Forever Peace_ by Joe Haldeman<sup>1</sup>|* _The Last Hawk_ by Catherine Asaro * _Moonfall_ by Jack McDevitt * _How Few Remain_ by Harry Turtledove * _Death of the Necromancer_ by Martha Wells * _To Say Nothing of the Dog_ by Connie Willis <sup>1</sup>||
|_Parable of the Talents_ by Octavia E. Butler|* _The Cassini Division_ by Ken MacLeod * _A Clash of Kings_ by George R. R. Martin * _Mission Child_ by Maureen F. McHugh * _Mockingbird_ by Sean Stewart * _A Deepness in the Sky_ by Vernor Vinge<sup>1</sup>||
|_Darwin's Radio_ by Greg Bear|* _A Civil Campaign_ by Lois McMaster Bujold * _Crescent City Rhapsody_ by Kathleen Ann Goonan * _Midnight Robber_ by Nalo Hopkinson * _Infinity Beach_ by Jack McDevitt * _Forests of the Heart_ by Charles de Lint||
|_The Quantum Rose_ by Catherine Asaro|* _Eternity's End_ by Jeffrey A. Carver * _Mars Crossing_ by Geoffrey A. Landis * _A Storm of Swords_ by George R. R. Martin * _The Collapsium_ by Wil McCarthy * _The Tower at Stony Wood_ by Patricia A. McKillip * _Declare_ by Tim Powers * _Passage_ by Connie Willis Although _Declare_ appeared on the final ballot, it was afterwards determined to be ineligible.||
|_American Gods_ by Neil Gaiman<sup>1</sup>|* _Solitaire_ by Kelley Eskridge * _The Other Wind_ by Ursula K. Le Guin * _Picoverse_ by Robert A. Metzger * _Perdido Street Station_ by China Miéville * _Bones of the Earth_ by Michael Swanwick||
|_The Speed of Dark_ by Elizabeth Moon|* _Diplomatic Immunity_ by Lois McMaster Bujold * _The Mount_ by Carol Emshwiller * _Light Music_ by Kathleen Ann Goonan * _The Salt Roads_ by Nalo Hopkinson * _Chindi_ by Jack McDevitt||
|_Paladin of Souls_ by Lois McMaster Bujold <sup>1</sup>|* _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_ by Cory Doctorow * _Omega_ by Jack McDevitt * _Cloud Atlas_ by David Mitchell * _Perfect Circle_ by Sean Stewart * _The Knight_ by Gene Wolfe||
|_Camouflage_ by Joe Haldeman|* _Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell_ by Susanna Clarke <sup>1</sup> * _Polaris_ by Jack McDevitt * _Going Postal_ by Terry Pratchett * _Air_ by Geoff Ryman * _Orphans of Chaos_ by John C. Wright||
|_Seeker_ by Jack McDevitt|* _The Privilege of the Sword_ by Ellen Kushner * _The Girl in the Glass_ by Jeffrey Ford * _Farthing_ by Jo Walton * _From the Files of the Time Rangers_ by Richard Bowes * _To Crush the Moon_ by Wil McCarthy||
|_The Yiddish Policemen's Union_ by Michael Chabon <sup>1</sup>|* _Odyssey_ by Jack McDevitt * _The Accidental Time Machine_ by Joe Haldeman * _The New Moon's Arms_ by Nalo Hopkinson * _Ragamuffin_ by Tobias Buckell||
|_Powers_ by Ursula K. Le Guin|* _Little Brother_, by Cory Doctorow * _Cauldron_ by Jack McDevitt * _Brasyl_ by Ian McDonald * _Making Money_ by Terry Pratchett * _Superpowers_ by David J. Schwartz||
|_The Windup Girl_ by Paolo Bacigalupi <sup>1</sup>|* _The Love We Share Without Knowing_ by Christopher Barzak * _Flesh and Fire_ by Laura Anne Gilman * _The City & the City_ by China Miéville<sup>1</sup> * _Boneshaker_ by Cherie Priest * _Finch_ by Jeff VanderMeer||
|_Blackout/All Clear_ by Connie Willis<sup>1</sup>|* _The Native Star_ by M.K. Hobson * _The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms_ by N. K. Jemisin * _Shades of Milk and Honey_ by Mary Robinette Kowal * _Echo_ by Jack McDevitt * _Who Fears Death_ by Nnedi Okorafor||
|_Among Others_ by Jo Walton<sup>1</sup>|* _Embassytown_ by China Miéville * _Firebird_ by Jack McDevitt * _God's War_ by Kameron Hurley * _Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti_ by Genevieve Valentine * _The Kingdom of Gods_ by N. K. Jemisin||
|_2312_ by Kim Stanley Robinson|* _Throne of the Crescent Moon_ by Saladin Ahmed * _Ironskin_ by Tina Connolly * _The Killing Moon_ by N. K. Jemisin * _The Drowning Girl_ by Caitlín R. Kiernan * _Glamour in Glass_ by Mary Robinette Kowal||
|_Ancillary Justice_ by Ann Leckie<sup>1</sup>|* _We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves_ by Karen Joy Fowler * _The Ocean at the End of the Lane_ by Neil Gaiman * _Fire with Fire_ by Charles E. Gannon * _Hild_ by Nicola Griffith * _The Red: First Light_ by Linda Nagata * _A Stranger in Olondria_ by Sofia Samatar * _The Golem and the Jinni_ by Helene Wecker||
|_Annihilation_ by Jeff VanderMeer|* _The Goblin Emperor_ by Katherine Addison * _Trial by Fire_ by Charles E. Gannon * _Ancillary Sword_ by Ann Leckie * _The Three-Body Problem_ by Cixin Liu<sup>1</sup> * _Coming Home_ by Jack McDevitt||
|_Uprooted_ by Naomi Novik|* _Ancillary Mercy_ by Ann Leckie * _Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard_ by Lawrence M. Schoen * _The Fifth Season_ by N. K. Jemisin<sup>1</sup> * _The Grace of Kings_ by Ken Liu * _Raising Caine_ by Charles E. Gannon * _Updraft_ by Fran Wilde||
|_All the Birds in the Sky_ by Charlie Jane Anders|* _Borderline_ by Mishell Baker * _The Obelisk Gate_ by N. K. Jemisin<sup>1</sup> * _Ninefox Gambit_ by Yoon Ha Lee * _Everfair_ by Nisi Shawl||
|_The Stone Sky_ by N. K. Jemisin<sup>1</sup>|* _Amberlough_ by Lara Elena Donnelly * _The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter_ by Theodora Goss * _Spoonbenders_ by Daryl Gregory * _Six Wakes_ by Mur Lafferty * _Jade City_ by Fonda Lee * _Autonomous_ by Annalee Newitz||
|_The Calculating Stars_ by Mary Robinette Kowal<sup>1</sup>|* _Blackfish City_ by Sam J. Miller * _The Poppy War_ by R. F. Kuang * _Spinning Sliver_ by Naomi Novik * _Trail of Lightning_ by Rebacca Roanhorse * _Witchmark_ by C. L. Polk||
|_A Song for a New Day_ by Sarah Pinsker|* _Marque of Caine_ by Charles E. Gannon * _The Ten Thousand Doors of January_ by Alix E. Harrow * _A Memory Called Empire_ by Arkady Martine<sup>1</sup> * _Gods of Jade and Shadow_ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia * _Gideon the Ninth_ by Tamsyn Muir||
|_Network Effect_ by Martha Wells<sup>1</sup>|* _Piranesi_ by Susanna Clarke * _The City We Became_ by N. K. Jemisin * _Mexican Gothic_ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia * _The Midnight Bargain_ by C. L. Polk * _Black Sun_ by Rebecca Roanhorse||
|_A Master of Djinn_ by P. Djélí Clark|* _The Unbroken_ by C. L. Clark * _Machinehood_ by S. B. Divya * _A Desolation Called Peace_ by Arkady Martine * _Plague Birds_ by Jason Sanford||
<sup>1</sup> Also a winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

## Related pages

- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- List of science fiction awards

## Other websites

- Nebula Awards Homepage
- List of award winners from official site
- A list of the most honored Nebula Award nominated novels
- Another list of award winners
- Scans of the first edition covers of Hugo- and Nebula-winning novels