The Locus Awards are voted on each year by the readers of Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, which makes them one of the best guides to the books readers themselves have loved most. The Best Fantasy Novel award was first given in 1978, to Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, and its winners since include Ursula K. Le Guin, four volumes of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and N. K. Jemisin. This list collects the winning novels by year.
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow
A Sorceress Comes to Call
T. Kingfisher
Witch King
Martha Wells
Babel
R. F. Kuang
Jade Legacy
Fonda Lee
The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy, 1)
N. K. Jemisin
Middlegame
Seanan McGuire
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
The Apocalypse Codex
Charles Stross
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
Kraken
China Miéville
The City & the City
China Miéville
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
Making Money
Terry Pratchett
The Privilege of the Sword
Ellen Kushner
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
Iron Council
China Miéville
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Scar
China Miéville
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
Earthquake Weather
Tim Powers
A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Alvin Journeyman
Orson Scott Card
Brittle Innings
Michael Bishop
The Innkeeper’s Song
Peter S. Beagle
Last Call
Tim Powers
Beauty
Sheri S. Tepper
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Prentice Alvin
Orson Scott Card
Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card
Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card
Soldier of the Mist
Gene Wolfe
Trumps of Doom
Roger Zelazny
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Robert A. Heinlein
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Lord Valentine’s Castle
Robert Silverberg
Harpist in the Wind
Patricia A. McKillip
The Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien
