| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher(s)/publication | Ref. |
|---|
| 1975 | Patricia A. McKillip* | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | Atheneum Books | [8] |
|---|
| H. Warner Munn | Merlin's Ring | Ballantine Books | [8] |
| Poul Anderson | A Midsummer Tempest | Doubleday | [8] |
| 1976 | Richard Matheson* | Bid Time Return | Viking Press | [9] |
|---|
| Stephen King | Salem's Lot | Doubleday | [9] |
| 1977 | William Kotzwinkle* | Doctor Rat | Alfred A. Knopf | [10] |
|---|
| John Steinbeck | The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | [10] |
| Karl Edward Wagner | Dark Crusade | Warner | [10] |
| Ramsey Campbell | The Doll Who Ate His Mother | Bobbs-Merrill Company | [10] |
| Gordon R. Dickson | The Dragon and the George | Ballantine Books | [10] |
| Michael Moorcock | The Sailor on the Seas of Fate | Quartet,DAW Books | [10] |
| 1978 | Fritz Leiber* | Our Lady of Darkness | Berkley Books | [11] |
|---|
| Stephen R. Donaldson | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | [11] |
| Charles L. Grant | The Hour of the Oxrun Dead | Doubleday | [11] |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock* | Gloriana | Avon Publications | [12] |
|---|
| Les Daniels | The Black Castle | Charles Scribner's Sons | [12] |
| Tanith Lee | Night's Master | DAW Books | [12] |
| Charles L. Grant | The Sound of Midnight | Doubleday | [12] |
| Stephen King | The Stand | Doubleday | [12] |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn* | Watchtower | Berkley Books | [13] |
|---|
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | The Dancers of Arun | Berkley Books | [13] |
| Patricia Wrightson | The Dark Bright Water | Atheneum Books | [13] |
| Patricia A. McKillip | Harpist in the Wind | Atheneum Books | [13] |
| Charles L. Grant | The Last Call of Mourning | Doubleday | [13] |
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | The Palace | St. Martin's Press | [13] |
| 1981 | Gene Wolfe* | The Shadow of the Torturer | Simon & Schuster | [14] |
|---|
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Ariosto | Pocket Books | [14] |
| Parke Godwin | Firelord | Doubleday | [14] |
| Stephen King | The Mist | Dark Forces (Viking Press) | [14] |
| Peter Straub | Shadowland | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | [14] |
| 1982 | John Crowley* | Little, Big | Bantam Books | [15] |
|---|
| Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | Timescape | [15] |
| Ramsey Campbell | The Nameless | Macmillan Publishers | [15] |
| Michael Moorcock | The War Hound and the World's Pain | Timescape | [15] |
| D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Viking Press | [15] |
| 1983 | Michael Shea* | Nifft the Lean | DAW Books | [16] |
|---|
| George R. R. Martin | Fevre Dream | Poseidon Press | [16] |
| Charles L. Grant | The Nestling | Pocket Books | [16] |
| Thomas Tessier | Phantom | Atheneum Books | [16] |
| Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | Timescape | [16] |
| 1984 | John M. Ford* | The Dragon Waiting | Timescape | [17] |
|---|
| George R. R. Martin | The Armageddon Rag | Poseidon Press | [17] |
| Jack Vance | Lyonesse | Berkley Books | [17] |
| Stephen King | Pet Sematary | Doubleday | [17] |
| R. A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | Bantam Books | [17] |
| Manuel Mujica Lainez | The Wandering Unicorn | Taplinger | [17] |
| 1985 | Barry Hughart* | Bridge of Birds | St. Martin's Press | [18] |
|---|
| Robert Holdstock* | Mythago Wood | Victor Gollancz | [18] |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Archer's Goon | Methuen Publishing | [18] |
| T. E. D. Klein | The Ceremonies | Viking Press | [18] |
| Stephen King | The Talisman | Viking Press | [18] |
| Peter Straub |
| 1986 | Dan Simmons* | Song of Kali | Bluejay Books | [19] |
|---|
| Clive Barker | The Damnation Game | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | [19] |
| Lisa Goldstein | The Dream Years | Bantam Spectra | [19] |
| Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Harper & Row | [19] |
| Anne Rice | The Vampire Lestat | Alfred A. Knopf | [19] |
| Paul Hazel | Winterking | Atlantic Monthly Press | [19] |
| 1987 | Patrick Süskind* | Perfume | Alfred A. Knopf | [20] |
|---|
| Stephen King | It | Viking Press | [20] |
| Charles L. Grant | The Pet | Tor Books | [20] |
| Gene Wolfe | Soldier of the Mist | Tor Books | [20] |
| Dean Koontz | Strangers | Putnam Publishing Group | [20] |
| Terry Bisson | Talking Man | Arbor House | [20] |
| Margaret Mahy | The Tricksters | J. M. Dent & Sons | [20] |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood* | Replay | Arbor House | [21] |
|---|
| John Crowley | Ægypt | Bantam Spectra | [21] |
| Stephen King | Misery | Viking Press | [21] |
| Tim Powers | On Stranger Tides | Ace Books | [21] |
| Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son | Tor Books | [21] |
| Robert R. McCammon | Swan Song | Pocket Books | [21] |
| Clive Barker | Weaveworld | Poseidon Press,William Collins, Sons | [21] |
| 1989 | Peter Straub* | Koko | E. P. Dutton,Viking Press | [22] |
|---|
| Joe R. Lansdale | The Drive-In | Bantam Spectra | [22] |
| Robert Cormier | Fade | Victor Gollancz,Delacorte Press | [22] |
| James Blaylock | The Last Coin | Mark V. Ziesing,Ace Books | [22] |
| Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | St. Martin's Press | [22] |
| Jonathan Carroll | Sleeping in Flame | Legend,Doubleday | [22] |
| 1990 | Jack Vance* | Madouc | Underwood–Miller | [23] |
|---|
| Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | Dark Harvest | [23] |
| Jonathan Carroll | A Child Across the Sky | Legend, Century | [23] |
| Charles L. Grant | In a Dark Dream | Tor Books | [23] |
| Gene Wolfe | Soldier of Arete | Tor Books | [23] |
| Tim Powers | The Stress of Her Regard | Ace Books | [23] |
| 1991 | James K. Morrow* | Only Begotten Daughter | William Morrow and Company | [24] |
|---|
| Ellen Kushner* | Thomas the Rhymer | William Morrow and Company | [24] |
| Terry Pratchett | Good Omens | Victor Gollancz,Workman Publishing Company | [24] |
| Neil Gaiman |
| Valerie Martin | Mary Reilly | Doubleday | [24] |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | Viking Press | [24] |
| 1992 | Robert R. McCammon* | Boy's Life | Pocket Books | [25] |
|---|
| Emma Bull | Bone Dance | Ace Books | [25] |
| A. A. Attanasio | Hunting the Ghost Dancer | HarperCollins | [25] |
| Charles de Lint | The Little Country | William Morrow and Company | [25] |
| Jonathan Carroll | Outside the Dog Museum | Macdonald | [25] |
| James Blaylock | The Paper Grail | Ace Books | [25] |
| 1993 | Tim Powers* | Last Call | William Morrow and Company | [26] |
|---|
| Kim Newman | Anno Dracula | Simon & Schuster,Carroll & Graf Publishers | [26] |
| Jane Yolen | Briar Rose | Tor Books | [26] |
| Steve Szilagyi | Photographing Fairies | Ballantine Books | [26] |
| Geoff Ryman | Was | HarperCollins,Alfred A. Knopf | [26] |
| 1994 | Lewis Shiner* | Glimpses | William Morrow and Company | [27] |
|---|
| Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Delacorte Abyss | [27] |
| Peter S. Beagle | The Innkeeper's Song | Roc Books | [27] |
| Michael Swanwick | The Iron Dragon's Daughter | Millennium,Morrow AvoNova | [27] |
| Judith Tarr | Lord of the Two Lands | Tor Books | [27] |
| Kathe Koja | Skin | Delacorte Abyss | [27] |
| Peter Straub | The Throat | E. P. Dutton, Borderlands Press | [27] |
| 1995 | James K. Morrow* | Towing Jehovah | Harcourt Brace | [28] |
|---|
| Michael Bishop | Brittle Innings | Bantam Books | [28] |
| Brooke Stevens | The Circus of the Earth and the Air | Harcourt Brace | [28] |
| Jonathan Carroll | From the Teeth of Angels | HarperCollins,Doubleday | [28] |
| John Crowley | Love & Sleep | Bantam Books | [28] |
| Elizabeth Hand | Waking the Moon | HarperCollins,HarperPrism | [28] |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest* | The Prestige | Touchstone Books | [29] |
|---|
| James Blaylock | All the Bells on Earth | Ace Books | [29] |
| Tim Powers | Expiration Date | HarperCollins,Tor Books | [29] |
| Vikram Chandra | Red Earth and Pouring Rain | Little, Brown and Company | [29] |
| Graham Joyce | Requiem | Michael Joseph,Signet Creed | [29] |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Silent Strength of Stones | AvoNova | [29] |
| 1997 | Rachel Pollack* | Godmother Night | St. Martin's Press | [30] |
|---|
| Marc Laidlaw | The 37th Mandala | St. Martin's Press | [30] |
| William Kotzwinkle | The Bear Went Over the Mountain | Doubleday | [30] |
| Mark Sumner | Devil's Tower | Del Rey Books | [30] |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones | HarperCollins Voyager,Bantam Spectra | [30] |
| Melanie Rawn | The Golden Key | DAW Books | [30] |
| Jennifer Roberson |
| Kate Elliott |
| Terence M. Green | Shadow of Ashland | Forge Books | [30] |
| 1998 | Jeffrey Ford* | The Physiognomy | Avon Publications | [31] |
|---|
| Harvey Jacobs | American Goliath | St. Martin's Press | [31] |
| Arturo Pérez-Reverte | The Club Dumas (nomination withdrawn)[a] | Harcourt Brace | [31] |
| Eric Nylund | Dry Water | Avon Publications | [31] |
| Patrick O'Leary | The Gift | Tor Books | [31] |
| Charles de Lint | Trader | Tor Books | [31] |
| 1999 | Louise Erdrich* | The Antelope Wife | HarperFlamingo | [32] |
|---|
| Thomas Sullivan | The Martyring | Forge Books | [32] |
| Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | Ace Books | [32] |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Sailing to Sarantium | Earthlight,Viking Press | [32] |
| Charles de Lint | Someplace to Be Flying | Tor Books | [32] |
| 2000 | Martin Scott* | Thraxas | Orbit Books | [33] |
|---|
| Steven Erikson | Gardens of the Moon | Bantam Books | [33] |
| James Blaylock | The Rainy Season | Ace Books | [33] |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Red Heart of Memories | Ace Books | [33] |
| Peter S. Beagle | Tamsin | Roc Books | [33] |
| Terence M. Green | A Witness to Life | Forge Books | [33] |
| 2001 | Tim Powers* | Declare | Subterranean Press,William Morrow and Company | [34] |
|---|
| Sean Stewart* | Galveston | Ace Books | [34] |
| Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Scholastic,Alfred A. Knopf | [34] |
| Paula Volsky | The Grand Ellipse | Bantam Spectra | [34] |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Lord of Emperors | Viking Press,HarperPrism | [34] |
| China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | Macmillan Publishers,Del Rey Books | [34] |
| 2002 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | The Other Wind | Harcourt | [35] |
|---|
| Neil Gaiman | American Gods | William Morrow and Company | [35] |
| Jay Russell | Brown Harvest | Four Walls Eight Windows | [35] |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | Eos | [35] |
| Ray Bradbury | From the Dust Returned | William Morrow and Company | [35] |
| Charles de Lint | The Onion Girl | Tor Books | [35] |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Wooden Sea | Tor Books | [35] |
| 2003 | Graham Joyce* | The Facts of Life | Victor Gollancz | [36] |
|---|
| Patricia A. McKillip* | Ombria in Shadow | Ace Books | [36] |
| Gregory Frost | Fitcher's Brides | Tor Books | [36] |
| Jeffrey Ford | The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque | William Morrow and Company | [36] |
| China Miéville | The Scar | Macmillan Publishers,Del Rey Books | [36] |
| 2004 | Jo Walton* | Tooth and Claw | Tor Books | [37] |
|---|
| K. J. Bishop | The Etched City | Prime Books | [37] |
| Kij Johnson | Fudoki | Tor Books | [37] |
| Ian R. MacLeod | The Light Ages | Ace Books | [37] |
| Jeff VanderMeer | Veniss Underground | Prime Books | [37] |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke* | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Bloomsbury Press | [38] |
|---|
| China Miéville | Iron Council | Del Rey Books,Macmillan Publishers | [38] |
| Sean Stewart | Perfect Circle | Small Beer Press | [38] |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | The Runes of the Earth | Putnam Publishing Group,Victor Gollancz | [38] |
| Gene Wolfe | The Wizard Knight | Tor Books | [38] |
| 2006 | Haruki Murakami* | Kafka on the Shore | Harvill Press,Alfred A. Knopf | [39] |
|---|
| Graham Joyce | The Limits of Enchantment | Victor Gollancz,Atria | [39] |
| Bret Easton Ellis | Lunar Park | Alfred A. Knopf,Macmillan Publishers | [39] |
| Patricia A. McKillip | Od Magic | Ace Books | [39] |
| Paul Park | A Princess of Roumania | Tor Books | [39] |
| Hal Duncan | Vellum | Macmillan Publishers,Del Rey Books | [39] |
| 2007 | Gene Wolfe* | Soldier of Sidon | Tor Books | [40] |
|---|
| Scott Lynch | The Lies of Locke Lamora | Victor Gollancz,Bantam Spectra | [40] |
| Stephen King | Lisey's Story | Charles Scribner's Sons,Hodder & Stoughton | [40] |
| Catherynne M. Valente | In the Night Garden | Bantam Spectra | [40] |
| Ellen Kushner | The Privilege of the Sword | Bantam Spectra,Small Beer Press | [40] |
| 2008 | Guy Gavriel Kay* | Ysabel | Viking Press,Roc Books | [41] |
|---|
| John Marks | Fangland | Penguin Press | [41] |
| Will Shetterly | The Gospel of the Knife | Tor Books | [41] |
| Michael Marshall Smith | The Servants | Earthling Publications | [41] |
| Emma Bull | Territory | Tor Books | [41] |
| 2009 | Jeffrey Ford* | The Shadow Year | William Morrow and Company | [42] |
|---|
| Margo Lanagan* | Tender Morsels | Allen & Unwin,Alfred A. Knopf | [42] |
| Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | HarperCollins,Bloomsbury Press | [42] |
| Kage Baker | The House of the Stag | Tor Books | [42] |
| Daryl Gregory | Pandemonium | Del Rey Books | [42] |
| 2010 | China Miéville* | The City & the City | Macmillan Publishers,Del Rey Books | [43] |
|---|
| James Enge | Blood of Ambrose | Pyr | [43] |
| Jeff VanderMeer | Finch | Underland Press | [43] |
| Kit Whitfield | In Great Waters | Jonathan Cape,Del Rey Books | [43] |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Red Tree | Roc Books | [43] |
| 2011 | Nnedi Okorafor* | Who Fears Death | DAW Books | [44] |
|---|
| N. K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | Orbit Books | [44] |
| Karen Lord | Redemption in Indigo | Small Beer Press | [44] |
| Graham Joyce | The Silent Land | Victor Gollancz,Doubleday | [44] |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | Viking Press,Roc Books | [44] |
| Lauren Beukes | Zoo City | Jacana Media,Angry Robot | [44] |
| 2012 | Lavie Tidhar* | Osama | DAW Books | [45] |
|---|
| Stephen King | 11/22/63 | Charles Scribner's Sons | [45] |
| Jo Walton | Among Others | Tor Books | [45] |
| George R. R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons | Tor Books | [45] |
| Christopher Buehlman | Those Across the River | Ace Books | [45] |
| 2013 | G. Willow Wilson* | Alif the Unseen | Grove,Corvus | [46] |
|---|
| N. K. Jemisin | The Killing Moon | Orbit Books | [46] |
| Graham Joyce | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | Victor Gollancz | [46] |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | Roc Books | [46] |
| Anna Tambour | Crandolin | Chomu Press | [46] |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar* | A Stranger in Olondria | Small Beer Press | [47] |
|---|
| Richard Bowes | Dust Devil on a Quiet Street | Lethe Press | [47] |
| Marie Brennan | A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent | Tor Books | [47] |
| Neil Gaiman | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | William Morrow and Company | [47] |
| Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni | Harper | [47] |
| Gene Wolfe | The Land Across | Tor Books | [47] |
| 2015 | David Mitchell* | The Bone Clocks | Random House | [48] |
|---|
| Jeff VanderMeer | Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | [48] |
| Robert Jackson Bennett | City of Stairs | Jo Fletcher Books | [48] |
| Katherine Addison | The Goblin Emperor | Tor Books | [48] |
| Jo Walton | My Real Children | Tor Books | [48] |
| 2016 | Anna Smaill* | The Chimes | Sceptre | [49] |
|---|
| N. K. Jemisin | The Fifth Season | Orbit Books | [49] |
| Naomi Novik | Uprooted | Del Rey Books | [49] |
| K. J. Parker | Savages | Subterranean Press | [49] |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | The Buried Giant | Alfred A. Knopf | [49] |
| Paul Tremblay | A Head Full of Ghosts | William Morrow and Company | [49] |
| 2017 | Claire North* | The Sudden Appearance of Hope | Redhook Books | [50] |
|---|
| Mishell Baker | Borderline | Saga Press | [50] |
| Matt Ruff | Lovecraft Country | Harper | [50] |
| N. K. Jemisin | The Obelisk Gate | Orbit Books | [50] |
| Betsy James | Roadsouls | Aqueduct Press | [50] |
| 2018 | Victor LaValle* | The Changeling | Spiegel & Grau | [51] |
|---|
| Fonda Lee* | Jade City | Orbit Books | [51] |
| S. A. Chakraborty | The City of Brass | Harper Voyager | [51] |
| John Crowley | Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | Saga Press | [51] |
| Daryl Gregory | Spoonbenders | Alfred A. Knopf | [51] |
| Theodora Goss | The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Saga Press | [51] |
| 2019 | C. L. Polk* | Witchmark | Tor.com Publishing | [52] |
|---|
| Dale Bailey | In the Night Wood | John Joseph Adams Books | [52] |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | The Mere Wife | MCD | [52] |
| R. F. Kuang | The Poppy War | Harper Voyager | [52] |
| Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | Saga Press | [52] |
| 2020 | Kacen Callender* | Queen of the Conquered | Orbit Books | [53] |
|---|
| Alix E. Harrow | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Redhook Books/Orbit UK | [53] |
| Ann Leckie | The Raven Tower | Orbit Books | [53] |
| Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth | Tor.com Publishing | [53] |
| Yōko Ogawa | The Memory Police | Pantheon Books/Harvill Secker | [53] |
| Stephen Snyder (translator) |
| 2021 | Alaya Dawn Johnson* | Trouble the Saints | Tor Books | [54] |
|---|
| Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | Bloomsbury Press | [54] |
| Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | Saga Press/Titan UK | [54] |
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Mexican Gothic | Del Rey Books/Jo Fletcher UK | [54] |
| C. L. Polk | The Midnight Bargain | Erewhon/Orbit UK | [54] |
| 2022 | Tasha Suri* | The Jasmine Throne | Orbit Books | [55] |
|---|
| Zen Cho | Black Water Sister | Ace Books/Macmillan Publishers | [55] |
| Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Inkyard Press | [55] |
| Catriona Ward | The Last House on Needless Street | Nightfire Books/Viper Books | [55] |
| P. Djèlí Clark | A Master of Djinn | Tor.com Publishing/Orbit UK | [55] |
| 2023 | C. S. E. Cooney* | Saint Death's Daughter | Solaris Books | [56] |
|---|
| R. F. Kuang | Babel | Harper Voyager | [56] |
| Alex Jennings | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | Redhook Books/Orbit UK | [56] |
| Nghi Vo | Siren Queen | Tordotcom | [56] |
| Nicola Griffith | Spear | Tordotcom | [56] |
| 2024 | Tananarive Due* | The Reformatory | Saga Press/Titan UK | [57] |
|---|
| Catriona Ward | Looking Glass Sound | Viper Books/Nightfire Books | [57] |
| Yael Goldstein-Love | The Possibilities | Random House | [57] |
| Wole Talabi | Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon | DAW Books/Victor Gollancz | [57] |
| Alix E. Harrow | Starling House | Tor Books | [57] |
| Martha Wells | Witch King | Tordotcom | [57] |
| 2025 | Robert Jackson Bennett* | The Tainted Cup | Del Rey Books/Hodderscape | [58] |
|---|
| Yangsze Choo | The Fox Wife | Henry Holt and Company/Quercus UK | [58] |
| Kay Chronister | The Bog Wife | Counterpoint/Titan UK | [58] |
| Lev Grossman | The Bright Sword | Viking Press/Del Rey UK | [58] |
| Samantha Mills | The Wings Upon Her Back | Tachyon Publications | [58] |