The Nebula Award for Best Novel is presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, chosen by the genre’s own professional writers rather than by a fan convention - a useful counterpoint to the Hugo. Awarded since 1966, its winners run from Frank Herbert’s Dune (the very first) through Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Haldeman and Samuel R. Delany to the field’s leading contemporary voices. This list collects the winning novels by year.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
John Wiswell
2025
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
2024
Babel
R.F. Kuang
2023
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
2022
Network Effect
Martha Wells
2021
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
2020
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
2019
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
2018
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
2017
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
2016
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2015
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2014
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
2013
Among Others
Jo Walton
2012
All Clear
Connie Willis
2011
Blackout
Connie Willis
2011
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
2010Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
2010
Powers
Ursula K. Le Guin
2009
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
2008
Seeker
Jack McDevitt
2007
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
2006
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
2005
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
2004
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
2003
The Quantum Rose
Catherine Asaro
2002
Darwin's Radio
Greg Bear
2001
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
2000
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
1999
The Moon and the Sun
Vonda N. McIntyre
1998
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
1997
The Terminal Experiment
Robert J. Sawyer
1996
Moving Mars
Greg Bear
1995
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1994
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
1993
Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
1992
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
1991
The Healer's War
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1990
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
1989
The Falling Woman
Pat Murphy
1988
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
1987
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1986
Neuromancer
William Gibson
1985
Startide Rising
David Brin
1984
No Enemy But Time
Michael Bishop
1983
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
1982
Timescape
Gregory Benford
1981
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
1980
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
1979
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
1978
Man Plus
Frederik Pohl
1977
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
Joe Haldeman
1976
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
1975
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
1974
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
1973
A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg
1972
Ringworld
Larry Niven
1971
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1970
Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin
1969
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany
1968
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
1967
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
1967
Dune
Frank Herbert
1966