Book prize winners

BSFA Award for Best Novel winners

16 winners and 61 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2020 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2020
  2. 2014 Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie First edition: Orbit 2014
  3. 2013 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie First edition not yet identified
  4. 2001 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2001
  5. 1996 Excession by Iain Banks First edition: Little, Brown 1996
  6. 1995 The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter First edition: HarperCollins 1995
  7. 1994 Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 1994
  8. 1992 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1992
  9. 1991 The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons First edition: Doubleday 1990
  10. 1989 Pyramids by Terry Pratchett First edition: Gollancz 1989
  11. 1984 Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock First edition: Gollancz 1984
  12. 1981 The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe First edition not yet identified
  13. 1980 Timescape by Gregory Benford First edition not yet identified
  14. 1974 The Inverted World by Christopher Priest First edition: Faber & Faber 1974
  15. 1973 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Gollancz 1973
  16. 1969 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner First edition: Doubleday 1968

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 2021 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine First edition not yet identified
  2. 2020 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
  3. 2020 The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2020
  4. 2018 Rosewater by Tade Thompson First edition not yet identified
  5. 2017 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2017
  6. 2017 Provenance by Ann Leckie First edition: Orbit 2017
  7. 2016 A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  8. 2014 Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: Hodder & Stoughton 2014
  9. 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North First edition: Orbit 2014
  10. 2013 Gods War by Kameron Hurley First edition: Night Shade Books 2011
  11. 2012 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2012
  12. 2011 Embassytown by China Miéville First edition: Brand: Macmillan 2011
  13. 2010 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi First edition: Night Shade Books 2009
  14. 2009 Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harcourt 2008
  15. 2008 Anathem by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
  16. 2008 Flood by Stephen Baxter First edition: Gollancz 2008
  17. 2008 The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway First edition: Heinemann 2008
  18. 2007 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon First edition not yet identified
  19. 2005 Accelerando by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2005
  20. 2005 Learning the World by Ken MacLeod First edition: Orbit 2005
  21. 2004 Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2004
  22. 2004 Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  23. 2004 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke First edition not yet identified
  24. 2003 Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2003
  25. 2003 Pattern Recognition by William Gibson First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
  26. 2002 Light by M. John Harrison First edition: Gollancz 2002
  27. 2002 The Scar by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2002
  28. 2002 The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  29. 2001 American Gods by Neil Gaiman First edition: Headline Publishing Group 2001
  30. 2000 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2000
  31. 2000 Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2000
  32. 1998 Inversions by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 1998
  33. 1998 The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod First edition: Little, Brown 1998
  34. 1996 Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  35. 1996 The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod First edition: Legend 1996
  36. 1995 The Prestige by Christopher Priest First edition: Touchstone 1995
  37. 1994 Permutation City by Greg Egan First edition: Orion Publishing Group 1994
  38. 1993 Ammonite by Nicola Griffith First edition not yet identified
  39. 1993 Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1993
  40. 1993 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson First edition: Bantam Books 1992
  41. 1992 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis First edition not yet identified
  42. 1991 Raft by Stephen Baxter First edition: Grafton 1991
  43. 1991 Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett First edition: Gollancz 1991
  44. 1990 Hyperion by Dan Simmons First edition: Doubleday 1989
  45. 1990 The Difference Engine by William Gibson First edition: Gollancz 1990
  46. 1990 Use of Weapons by Iain Banks First edition: OrbitBooks 1990
  47. 1989 Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh First edition: Warner Books 1988
  48. 1986 Count Zero by William Gibson First edition not yet identified
  49. 1986 Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling First edition: Arbor House 1985
  50. 1985 The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers First edition: Ace Books 1983
  51. 1984 Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard First edition: Simon & Schuster 1984
  52. 1984 Neuromancer by William Gibson First edition not yet identified
  53. 1984 Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter First edition: Chatto & Windus 1984
  54. 1983 The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe First edition: Pocket Books 1982
  55. 1982 Little, Big by John Crowley First edition: Bantam Books 1981
  56. 1982 No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop First edition not yet identified
  57. 1982 The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick First edition: distributed by Simon & Schuster 1981
  58. 1982 The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe First edition: Timescape Books 1981
  59. 1981 The Affirmation by Christopher Priest First edition: Arena 1981
  60. 1980 Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl First edition not yet identified
  61. 1979 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Victor Gollancz 1979

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