Book prize

Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel winners

5 winners and 17 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.

All prizes

The Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel has 5 winners we hold, from 2016 to 2025, and 17 nominees. The most recent winner here is The Devils (2025), first published by Orion Publishing Group in 2025. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2025 The Devils by Joe Abercrombie First edition: Orion Publishing Group 2025
  2. 2024 Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros First edition not yet identified
  3. 2022 Witch King by Martha Wells First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
  4. 2021 Battle Ground by Jim Butcher First edition: Ace Books 2020
  5. 2018 Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson First edition: Tor Fantasy 2017
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2024 He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan First edition: Pan Macmillan 2023
  2. 2023 Babel by R.F. Kuang First edition: Harper Voyager 2022
  3. 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson First edition: Dragonsteel Entertainment 2023
  4. 2022 Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki First edition: Tor 2021
  5. 2022 Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James First edition: Penguin Books 2022
  6. 2022 Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2022
  7. 2021 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
  8. 2021 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab First edition: Tor 2020
  9. 2021 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow First edition: Orbit 2020
  10. 2020 Jade War by Fonda Lee First edition: Orbit 2019
  11. 2020 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo First edition: Flatiron Books 2019
  12. 2020 The Burning White by Brent Weeks First edition: Little, Brown 2019
  13. 2019 Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys First edition: Tor.com 2018
  14. 2019 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik First edition: Pan Macmillan 2018
  15. 2019 The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie First edition not yet identified
  16. 2016 The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher First edition: Little, Brown 2015
  17. 2016 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2015

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