Nebula Award (Best Novel) — Complete Winners List

60 years of winners · Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) · Since 1966 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2024	Someone You Can Build a Nest In	John Wiswell	DAW Books
2023	The Saint of Bright Doors	Vajra Chandrasekera	Tordotcom
2022	Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence	R. F. Kuang	Harper Voyager US
2021	A Master of Djinn	P. Djèlí Clark	Tordotcom
2020	Network Effect	Martha Wells	Tor.com Publishing
2019	A Song for a New Day	Sarah Pinsker	Berkley
2018	The Calculating Stars	Mary Robinette Kowal	Tor Books
2017	The Stone Sky	N. K. Jemisin	Orbit Books
2016	All the Birds in the Sky	Charlie Jane Anders	Tor Books
2015	Uprooted	Naomi Novik	Del Rey
2014	Annihilation	Jeff VanderMeer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013	Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie	Orbit Books
2012	2312	Kim Stanley Robinson	Orbit Books
2011	Among Others	Jo Walton	Tor Books
2010	Blackout/All Clear	Connie Willis	Spectra Books
2009	The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi	Night Shade Books
2008	Powers	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harcourt
2007	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	Michael Chabon	HarperCollins
2006	Seeker	Jack McDevitt	Ace Books
2005	Camouflage	Joe Haldeman	—
2004	Paladin of Souls	Lois McMaster Bujold	—
2003	The Speed of Dark	Elizabeth Moon	—
2002	American Gods	Neil Gaiman	—
2001	The Quantum Rose	Catherine Asaro	—
2000	Darwin's Radio	Greg Bear	—
1999	Parable of the Talents	Octavia E. Butler	—
1998	Forever Peace	Joe Haldeman	—
1997	The Moon and the Sun	Vonda N. McIntyre	—
1996	Slow River	Nicola Griffith	—
1995	The Terminal Experiment	Robert J. Sawyer	—
1994	Moving Mars	Greg Bear	—
1993	Red Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson	—
1992	Doomsday Book	Connie Willis	—
1991	Stations of the Tide	Michael Swanwick	—
1990	Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	—
1989	The Healer's War	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough	—
1988	Falling Free	Lois McMaster Bujold	—
1987	The Falling Woman	Pat Murphy	—
1986	Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card	—
1985	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	—
1984	Neuromancer	William Gibson	—
1983	Startide Rising	David Brin	—
1982	No Enemy But Time	Michael Bishop	—
1981	The Claw of the Conciliator	Gene Wolfe	—
1980	Timescape	Gregory Benford	—
1979	The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke	—
1978	Dreamsnake	Vonda N. McIntyre	—
1977	Gateway	Frederik Pohl	—
1976	Man Plus	Frederik Pohl	—
1975	The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	—
1974	The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	—
1973	Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	—
1972	The Gods Themselves	Isaac Asimov	—
1971	A Time of Changes	Robert Silverberg	—
1970	Ringworld	Larry Niven	—
1969	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	—
1968	Rite of Passage	Alexei Panshin	—
1967	The Einstein Intersection	Samuel R. Delany	—
1966	Babel-17	Samuel R. Delany	—
1965	Dune	Frank Herbert	—