ShelfEvidentWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novel — Complete Winners List
51 years of winners · World Fantasy Convention · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Robert Jackson Bennett | Del Rey | |
| 2024 | Tananarive Due | Saga Press | |
| 2023 | C. S. E. Cooney | Tor Books | |
| 2022 | Tasha Suri | Orbit | |
| 2021 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | Tor Books | |
| 2020 | Kacen Callender | Orbit | |
| 2019 | C. L. Polk | Tordotcom | |
| 2018 | Victor LaValle | Spiegel & Grau | |
| 2017 | Claire North | Redhook Books | |
| 2016 | Anna Smaill | Sceptre | |
| 2015 | David Mitchell | Random House | |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar | Small Beer Press | |
| 2013 | G. Willow Wilson | Grove Press | |
| 2012 | Lavie Tidhar | PS Publishing | |
| 2011 | Nnedi Okorafor | DAW Books | |
| 2010 | China Miéville | Del Rey | |
| 2009 | Jeffrey Ford | — | |
| 2008 | Guy Gavriel Kay | — | |
| 2007 | Gene Wolfe | — | |
| 2006 | Haruki Murakami | — | |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke | — | |
| 2004 | Jo Walton | — | |
| 2003 | Graham Joyce | — | |
| 2002 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 2001 | Tim Powers | — | |
| 2000 | Martin Scott | — | |
| 1999 | Louise Erdrich | — | |
| 1998 | Jeffrey Ford | — | |
| 1997 | Rachel Pollack | — | |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | — | |
| 1995 | James K. Morrow | — | |
| 1994 | Lewis Shiner | — | |
| 1993 | Tim Powers | — | |
| 1992 | Robert R. McCammon | — | |
| 1991 | James K. Morrow | — | |
| 1990 | Jack Vance | — | |
| 1989 | Peter Straub | — | |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood | — | |
| 1987 | Patrick Süskind | — | |
| 1986 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 1985 | Barry Hughart | — | |
| 1984 | John M. Ford | — | |
| 1983 | Michael Shea | — | |
| 1982 | John Crowley | — | |
| 1981 | Gene Wolfe | — | |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn | — | |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock | — | |
| 1978 | Fritz Leiber | — | |
| 1977 | William Kotzwinkle | — | |
| 1976 | Richard Matheson | — | |
| 1975 | Patricia A. McKillip | — |
