Nebula Award: novel

The annual Nebula Awards recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States during the previous year. The prizes are handed out in various categories, including best novel, by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The awards were first given in 1966.

2023: The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera

2022: Babel, by R.F. Kuang

2021: A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark

2020: Marque of Caine, by Charles E. Gannon

2019: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal

2018: Spoonbenders, by Daryl Gregory

2017: All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders

2016: Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

2015: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

2014: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Beckie

2013: 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson

2012: Among Others, by Jo Walton

2011: Blackout/All Clear, by Connie Willis

2010: The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi

2009: Powers, by Ursula K. Le Guin

2008: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon

2007: Seeker, by Jack McDevitt

2006: Camouflage, by Joe Haldeman

2005: Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold

2004: The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon

2003: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

2002: The Quantum Rose, by Catherine Asaro

2001: Darwin’s Radio, by Greg Bear

2000: Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E. Butler

1999: Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman

1998: The Moon and the Sun, by Vonda N. McIntyre

1997: Slow River, by Nicola Griffith

1996: The Terminal Experiment, by Robert J. Sawyer

1995: Moving Mars, by Greg Bear

1994: Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

1993: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

1992: Stations of the Tide, by Michael Swanwick

1991: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

1990: The Healer’s War, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

1989: Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold

1988: The Falling Woman, by Pat Murphy

1987: Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

1986: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

1985: Neuromancer, by William Gibson

1984: Startide Rising, by David Brin

1983: No Enemy But Time, by Michael Bishop

1982: The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe

1981: Timescape, by Gregory Benford

1980: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke

1979: Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre

1978: Gateway, by Frederik Pohl

1977: Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl

1976: The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman

1975: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin

1974: Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke

1973: The Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov

1972: A Time of Changes, by Robert Silverberg

1971: Ringworld, by Larry Niven

1970: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

1969: Rite of Passage, by Alexei Panshin

1968: The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R. Delany

1967: Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany, and Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

1966: Dune, by Frank Herbert