Books that have won the Best Novel category for the World Fantasy Award.
World Fantasy Award Best Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
5 stars
Sybel, daughter of a wizard, granddaughter of a wizard, knows little of the ways of men. She has spent her …
Phil in SF says: 1975 winner
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Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
When Richard Collier, a thirty-six-year-old screenwriter, falls in love, the circumstances are, to say the least, daunting. Richard has been …
Phil in SF says: 1976 winner. Editions published in 1980 and afterward are titled Somewhere In Time, after the movie made from the novel came out.
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Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
There has never been a character ( there has never been a rat) like Doctor Rat, Ph.D. Mad survivor of …
Phil in SF says: 1977 winner
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Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
Sometime during a three-year drunk in San Francisco, Franz Westen, a pulp author, bought two strange books. One was Megapolismancy …
Phil in SF says: 1978 winner
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Gloriana, or, The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock
1 star
Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia — and which is experiencing a Golden Age …
Phil in SF says: 1979 winner
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Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
4 stars
Tornor Keep stands on the northernmost border of the land, one of a number of keeps built to defend the …
Phil in SF says: 1980 winner
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The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
3 stars
In a stunning blend of the lyric extravagance of fantasy and the keen edge of science fiction, meeting in a …
Phil in SF says: 1981 winner
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3 stars
It's enchanting — and enchanted.
It's strange ... funny ... mysterious ... magical ... sensual ... brave ... triumphant ... …
Phil in SF says: 1982 winner
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Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea (Nifft the Lean, #1)
Follow the adventures of Nifft the Lean, the master thief whose felonious appropriations and larcenous skills will lead you through …
Phil in SF says: 1983 winner
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The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
The year is 1478, the dawn of the Renaissance. The War of the Roses have put Edward IV on the …
Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (Master Li, #1)
5 stars
Against the exotic backdrop of China thirteen-and-a-half centuries ago—a land as filled with magic as Tolkien's Middle Earth—two odd companions …
Phil in SF says: 1985 co-winner
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Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood, #1)
Ryhope Wood, in a remote corner of Herefordshire, is a forgotten remnant of ancient woodland: three square miles of post-Ice …
Phil in SF says: 1985 co-winner
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Kali, Goddess of Death and Destruction, eight-armed, eternal, her song is the sound of death. In a novel both shocking …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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4 stars
The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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4 stars
If you could live your life over again. . .
We all have fantasies about it. Especially men like Jeff …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
