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
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
Babel
R.F. Kuang
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
Network Effect
Martha Wells
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
Among Others
Jo Walton
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
Powers
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
Seeker
Jack McDevitt
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
The Quantum Rose
Catherine Asaro
Darwin's Radio
Greg Bear
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
The Moon and the Sun
Vonda N. McIntyre
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
The Terminal Experiment
Robert J. Sawyer
Moving Mars
Greg Bear
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Healer's War
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Falling Woman
Pat Murphy
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Startide Rising
David Brin
No Enemy But Time
Michael Bishop
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Timescape
Gregory Benford
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Man Plus
Frederik Pohl
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg
Ringworld
Larry Niven
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Dune
Frank Herbert
