Book prize

Nebula Award for Best Novel winners

56 winners and 178 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 Nebula Award for Best Novel has 56 winners we hold, from 1966 to 2025, and 178 nominees. The most recent winner here is Saint of Bright Doors (2024), first published by Tor in 2023. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2024 Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera First edition: Tor 2023
  2. 2023 Babel by R.F. Kuang First edition: Harper Voyager 2022
  3. 2021 Network Effect by Martha Wells First edition: Tor 2020
  4. 2020 A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker First edition: Berkley 2019
  5. 2019 The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
  6. 2018 The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2017
  7. 2017 All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders First edition: Tor 2016
  8. 2016 Uprooted by Naomi Novik First edition: Del Rey 2015
  9. 2015 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer First edition: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2014
  10. 2014 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie First edition: Orbit 2013
  11. 2013 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2012
  12. 2012 Among Others by Jo Walton First edition: Tor 2011
  13. 2011 All Clear by Connie Willis First edition: Allen & Unwin 2010
  14. 2011 Blackout by Connie Willis First edition: Spectra 2010
  15. 2010 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi First edition: Night Shade Books 2009
  16. 2009 Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition not yet identified
  17. 2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon First edition: HarperCollins 2007
  18. 2007 Seeker by Jack McDevitt First edition: Ace Books 2005
  19. 2006 Camouflage by Joe Haldeman First edition: Ace Books 2004
  20. 2005 Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition not yet identified
  21. 2004 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon First edition not yet identified
  22. 2003 American Gods by Neil Gaiman First edition: Headline Publishing Group 2001
  23. 2002 The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro First edition: Tor Science Fiction 2000
  24. 2001 Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear First edition not yet identified
  25. 2000 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler First edition: Seven Stories Press 1998
  26. 1999 Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman First edition: Ace Books 1997
  27. 1998 The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre First edition: Pocket Books 1997
  28. 1996 The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer First edition: HarperPrism 1995
  29. 1995 Moving Mars by Greg Bear First edition not yet identified
  30. 1994 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1992
  31. 1993 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Spectra 1992
  32. 1992 Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick First edition: Morrow 1991
  33. 1990 The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough First edition: Doubleday 1988
  34. 1989 Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1988
  35. 1988 The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy First edition: Tor 1986
  36. 1986 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card First edition: Tor Books 1985
  37. 1985 Neuromancer by William Gibson First edition: Ace Books 1984
  38. 1984 Startide Rising by David Brin First edition: Bantam Books 1983
  39. 1983 No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop First edition not yet identified
  40. 1982 The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe First edition not yet identified
  41. 1981 Timescape by Gregory Benford First edition not yet identified
  42. 1980 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Victor Gollancz 1979
  43. 1979 Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre First edition not yet identified
  44. 1978 Gateway by Frederik Pohl First edition: St. Martin's Press 1977
  45. 1977 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl First edition not yet identified
  46. 1976 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman First edition: St. Martin's Press 1974
  47. 1975 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harper & Row 1974
  48. 1974 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Gollancz 1973
  49. 1973 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1972
  50. 1972 A Time Of Changes by Robert Silverberg First edition: Doubleday 1971
  51. 1971 Ringworld by Larry Niven First edition: Ballantine Books 1970
  52. 1970 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition not yet identified
  53. 1969 Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin First edition: Gregg Press 1968
  54. 1968 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany First edition not yet identified
  55. 1967 Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Ace Books 1966
  56. 1966 Dune by Frank Herbert First edition: Chilton Book Co 1965
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2025 Book of Love by Kelly Link First edition: Random House 2024
  2. 2024 Terraformers by Annalee Newitz First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
  3. 2024 Translation State by Ann Leckie First edition: Orbit 2023
  4. 2024 Witch King by Martha Wells First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2023
  5. 2023 Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree First edition: Cryptid Press 2022
  6. 2023 Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler First edition not yet identified
  7. 2023 Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2022
  8. 2023 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir First edition: Recorded Books 2022
  9. 2022 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine First edition not yet identified
  10. 2021 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
  11. 2021 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2020
  12. 2021 The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk First edition: Erewhon Books 2020
  13. 2020 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine First edition: Tor 2019
  14. 2020 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir First edition: Tordotcom 2019
  15. 2020 Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon First edition: Baen Books 2019
  16. 2019 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik First edition: Pan Macmillan 2018
  17. 2019 The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang First edition: Harper Voyager 2018
  18. 2019 Witchmark by C. L. Polk First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
  19. 2018 Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly First edition: Tor 2017
  20. 2018 Autonomous by Annalee Newitz First edition: Tor 2017
  21. 2018 Jade City by Fonda Lee First edition: Orbit 2017
  22. 2018 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss First edition not yet identified
  23. 2017 The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2016
  24. 2016 Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie First edition not yet identified
  25. 2016 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2015
  26. 2016 The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty) by Ken Liu First edition: Gallery / Saga Press 2015
  27. 2015 Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie First edition: Orbit 2014
  28. 2015 The Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette First edition: Tor 2014
  29. 2015 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin First edition: Chongqing Publishing House 2008
  30. 2014 A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar First edition: Small Beer Press 2012
  31. 2014 Hild by Nicola Griffith First edition not yet identified
  32. 2014 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman First edition: William Morrow 2013
  33. 2014 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
  34. 2013 Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal First edition: Tor 2012
  35. 2013 The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin First edition not yet identified
  36. 2013 Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed First edition: DAW Books 2012
  37. 2012 Embassytown by China Miéville First edition: Brand: Macmillan 2011
  38. 2012 Firebird by Jack McDevitt First edition: Ace Books 2011
  39. 2012 Gods War by Kameron Hurley First edition: Night Shade Books 2011
  40. 2012 The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin First edition not yet identified
  41. 2011 Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal First edition: Tom Doherty Associate Books 2010
  42. 2011 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2010
  43. 2011 The Native Star by M. K. Hobson First edition: Spectra 2010
  44. 2011 Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: DAW Books 2010
  45. 2010 Finch by Jeff VanderMeer First edition: Underland Press 2009
  46. 2010 Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman First edition: Pocket Books 2009
  47. 2009 Brasyl by Ian McDonald First edition: Gollancz 2007
  48. 2009 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2008
  49. 2009 Making Money by Terry Pratchett First edition: Corgi 2007
  50. 2007 From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes First edition: Golden Gryphon Press 2005
  51. 2007 The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner First edition: Small Beer Press 2006
  52. 2007 To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy First edition: Bantam Books 2005
  53. 2006 Going Postal by Terry Pratchett First edition: Doubleday 2004
  54. 2006 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury USA 2004
  55. 2006 Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright First edition: Tor 2005
  56. 2006 Polaris by Jack McDevitt First edition: Ace Books 2004
  57. 2005 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2002
  58. 2005 Omega by Jack McDevitt First edition: Ace Books 2003
  59. 2005 Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart First edition: Small Beer Press 2004
  60. 2004 Chindi by Jack McDevitt First edition: Ace Books 2002
  61. 2004 Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 2002
  62. 2004 The Mount by Carol Emshwiller First edition: Small Beer Press 2002
  63. 2004 The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson First edition: Warner Books 2003
  64. 2003 Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick First edition: EOS/HarperCollins 2002
  65. 2003 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2000
  66. 2002 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin First edition: Voyager 2000
  67. 2002 Passage by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 2001
  68. 2002 The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy First edition: Gollancz 2000
  69. 2002 The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip First edition: Ace Books 2000
  70. 2001 A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1999
  71. 2001 Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt First edition: HarperPrism 2000
  72. 2000 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin First edition: Voyager 1998
  73. 2000 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge First edition: Tor 1999
  74. 2000 The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod First edition: Little, Brown 1998
  75. 1999 How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove First edition: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 1997
  76. 1999 Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh First edition: Avon Books 1998
  77. 1999 The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells First edition: Avon Eos 1998
  78. 1999 The Last Hawk by Catherine Asaro First edition: Tor 1997
  79. 1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 1997
  80. 1998 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin First edition not yet identified
  81. 1998 Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt First edition: Voyager 1996
  82. 1998 Bellwether by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 1996
  83. 1998 City on Fire by Walter Jon Williams First edition: HarperPrism 1997
  84. 1998 King's Dragon by Kate Elliott First edition: DAW Books 1997
  85. 1998 Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1996
  86. 1997 Expiration Date by Tim Powers First edition: HarperCollins 1995
  87. 1997 Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer First edition: Ace Books 1996
  88. 1997 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson First edition: Bantam Books 1995
  89. 1997 Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip First edition: Ace Books 1996
  90. 1996 Beggars & Choosers by Nancy Kress First edition: Tor 1994
  91. 1996 Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams First edition: HarperPrism 1995
  92. 1996 Mother of Storms by John Barnes First edition not yet identified
  93. 1995 A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny First edition: William Morrow 1993
  94. 1995 Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1993
  95. 1995 Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem First edition: Harcourt, Brace 1994
  96. 1995 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler First edition: Four Walls Eight Windows 1993
  97. 1995 Temporary Agency by Rachel Pollack First edition: Orbit 1994
  98. 1995 Towing Jehovah by James Morrow First edition: Arrow Books 1994
  99. 1994 Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun) by Gene Wolfe First edition not yet identified
  100. 1993 A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge First edition: Tor 1992
  101. 1992 Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1991
  102. 1992 Bone Dance by Emma Bull First edition: Ace Books 1991
  103. 1992 Orbital Resonance by John Barnes First edition: Tom Doherty 1991
  104. 1992 Synners by Pat Cadigan First edition not yet identified
  105. 1992 The Difference Engine by William Gibson First edition: Gollancz 1990
  106. 1991 Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin First edition not yet identified
  107. 1991 Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow First edition: Morrow 1990
  108. 1991 The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons First edition: Doubleday 1990
  109. 1990 The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson First edition: T. Doherty Associates 1989
  110. 1989 Great Sky River by Gregory Benford First edition: Bantam Books 1987
  111. 1989 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson First edition: Gollancz 1988
  112. 1989 The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe First edition not yet identified
  113. 1988 Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe First edition not yet identified
  114. 1988 The Forge of God by Greg Bear First edition not yet identified
  115. 1988 The Uplift War by David Brin First edition: Phantasia Press 1987
  116. 1988 Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson First edition: Doubleday 1986
  117. 1988 When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger First edition: Arbor House 1987
  118. 1987 Count Zero by William Gibson First edition: Gollancz 1986
  119. 1987 Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe First edition: M.V. Ziesing 1984
  120. 1987 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood First edition: McClelland & Stewart 1985
  121. 1987 This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow First edition: H. Holt 1986
  122. 1986 Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling First edition: Arbor House 1985
  123. 1986 The Postman by David Brin First edition: Bantam Books 1985
  124. 1985 Job by Robert A. Heinlein First edition not yet identified
  125. 1985 The Integral Trees by Larry Niven First edition: Ballantine Books 1983
  126. 1985 The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann First edition: Bluejay Books 1984
  127. 1984 Against Infinity by Gregory Benford First edition: Gollancz 1983
  128. 1984 Lyonesse by Jack Vance First edition: Berkley 1983
  129. 1984 The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe First edition: Pocket Books 1982
  130. 1984 The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad First edition: Timescape Books 1983
  131. 1983 Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1982
  132. 1983 Friday by Robert A. Heinlein First edition: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982
  133. 1983 The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe First edition: Timescape Books 1981
  134. 1983 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick First edition not yet identified
  135. 1982 Little, Big by John Crowley First edition: Bantam Books 1981
  136. 1982 Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban First edition: Jonathan Cape 1980
  137. 1982 The Many-Colored Land by Julian May First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1981
  138. 1981 Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl First edition not yet identified
  139. 1981 The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe First edition: Timescape Books 1980
  140. 1981 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge First edition not yet identified
  141. 1980 Jem by Frederik Pohl First edition: St. Martin's Press 1979
  142. 1979 Kalki by Gore Vidal First edition not yet identified
  143. 1978 In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford First edition: Dial Press/James Wade 1977
  144. 1978 Moonstar Odyssey by David Gerrold First edition: Signet 1977
  145. 1977 Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg First edition: Bobbs-Merrill 1976
  146. 1977 Triton by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Bantam Books 1976
  147. 1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm First edition: Harper & Row 1976
  148. 1976 A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson First edition: Doubleday 1974
  149. 1976 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Bantam Books 1975
  150. 1976 Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny First edition: Harper & Row 1976
  151. 1976 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino First edition: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1972
  152. 1976 Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow First edition: Random House 1975
  153. 1976 The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester First edition: distributed by Putnam 1975
  154. 1976 The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven First edition: Simon & Schuster 1974
  155. 1975 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick First edition: Doubleday 1974
  156. 1975 The Godwhale by T. J. Bass First edition: Ballantine Books 1973
  157. 1974 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon First edition: The Viking Press 1973
  158. 1974 The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold First edition not yet identified
  159. 1973 The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg First edition not yet identified
  160. 1973 The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner First edition: Harper & Row 1972
  161. 1973 When HARLIE Was One by David Gerrold First edition: Ballantine Books 1972
  162. 1972 Half Past Human by T. J. Bass First edition: Ballantine Books 1971
  163. 1972 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Scribner 1971
  164. 1971 And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ First edition: Ace Books 1970
  165. 1971 Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg First edition: Scribner 1970
  166. 1970 Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad First edition: Avon Books 1969
  167. 1970 Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny First edition: Ace Books 1969
  168. 1970 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut First edition: Delacorte Press 1969
  169. 1970 The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner First edition: Ace Books 1969
  170. 1970 Up the Line by Robert Silverberg First edition: Ballantine Books 1969
  171. 1969 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner First edition: Doubleday 1968
  172. 1969 The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg First edition: Ballantine Books 1968
  173. 1968 Chthon by Piers Anthony First edition: Ballantine Books 1967
  174. 1968 Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny First edition: Doubleday 1967
  175. 1966 All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak First edition: Doubleday 1965
  176. 1966 Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick First edition: Ace Books 1965
  177. 1966 Nova Express by William S. Burroughs First edition: Grove Press 1964
  178. 1966 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick First edition: Doubleday 1965

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