ShelfEvidentLocus Award for Best Fantasy Novel — Complete Winners List
47 years of winners · Locus Magazine / Locus Science Fiction Foundation · Since 1978 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | T. Kingfisher | Tor Books | |
| 2024 | Martha Wells | Tordotcom | |
| 2023 | R. F. Kuang | Harper Voyager | |
| 2022 | Fonda Lee | Orbit | |
| 2021 | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit | |
| 2020 | Seanan McGuire | Tor.com | |
| 2019 | Naomi Novik | Del Rey | |
| 2018 | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books | |
| 2017 | Charlie Jane Anders | Tor Books | |
| 2016 | Naomi Novik | Del Rey | |
| 2015 | Katherine Addison | Tor Books | |
| 2014 | Neil Gaiman | William Morrow | |
| 2013 | Charles Stross | Ace Books | |
| 2012 | George R. R. Martin | Bantam Books | |
| 2011 | China Miéville | Del Rey | |
| 2010 | China Miéville | Del Rey | |
| 2009 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 2008 | Terry Pratchett | — | |
| 2007 | Ellen Kushner | Bantam Spectra | |
| 2006 | Neil Gaiman | — | |
| 2005 | China Miéville | — | |
| 2004 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 2003 | China Miéville | — | |
| 2002 | Neil Gaiman | — | |
| 2001 | George R. R. Martin | — | |
| 2000 | J.K. Rowling | — | |
| 1999 | George R. R. Martin | — | |
| 1998 | Tim Powers | — | |
| 1997 | George R. R. Martin | — | |
| 1996 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1995 | Michael Bishop | — | |
| 1994 | Peter S. Beagle | — | |
| 1993 | Tim Powers | — | |
| 1992 | Sheri S. Tepper | — | |
| 1991 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 1990 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1989 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1988 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1987 | Gene Wolfe | — | |
| 1986 | Roger Zelazny | — | |
| 1985 | Robert A. Heinlein | — | |
| 1984 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | — | |
| 1983 | Gene Wolfe | — | |
| 1982 | Gene Wolfe | — | |
| 1981 | Robert Silverberg | — | |
| 1980 | Patricia A. McKillip | — | |
| 1978 | J. R. R. Tolkien | — |
