Every winner, newest first

Nebula Award for Best Novel Winners

1965 to 2025

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

Nebula Award for Best Novel Winners, newest first
Year	Book and author
2025	The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2024	Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
2023	The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
2022	Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
2021	A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
2020	Network Effect by Martha Wells
2019	A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
2018	The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
2017	The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
2016	All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
2015	Uprooted by Naomi Novik
2014	Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
2013	Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
2012	2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2011	Among Others by Jo Walton
2010	Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
2009	The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2008	Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
2007	The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2006	Seeker by Jack McDevitt
2005	Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
2004	Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003	The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
2002	American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2001	The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
2000	Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
1999	Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
1998	Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
1997	The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
1996	Slow River by Nicola Griffith
1995	The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
1994	Moving Mars by Greg Bear
1993	Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1992	Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1991	Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
1990	Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1989	The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1988	Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
1987	The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
1986	Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
1985	Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
1984	Neuromancer by William Gibson
1983	Startide Rising by David Brin
1982	No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
1981	The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
1980	Timescape by Gregory Benford
1979	The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
1978	Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
1977	Gateway by Frederik Pohl
1976	Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
1975	The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
1974	The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1973	Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
1972	The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
1971	A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
1970	Ringworld by Larry Niven
1969	The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1968	Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
1967	The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
1966	Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1966	Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
1965	Dune by Frank Herbert

About the Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Nebula Award for Best Novel is one of the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy, chosen each year since 1966 by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Winners include Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Octavia Butler, and N. K. Jemisin.

Awarded by: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
First awarded: 1966
Country: United States
Winner receives: A trophy rather than money

When it is announced

Announced at the Nebula Conference, usually in June, for work published in the previous calendar year. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

Members of the association nominate and vote, so the Nebula is the award chosen by working writers in the field.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.