BookGuide - Lincoln City Libraries - Award Winners: World Fantasy Awards

The World Fantasy Awards are presented annually to the best literary fantasy works in the categories of Novel, Novella, Short Fiction, Anthology, Collection, Artist, Life Achievement and various "Special Awards." Although this list includes only the winners in the "Novel" category, information about all of the categories can be found at the official World Fantasy Awards site. Final nominees are selected by the registered members of the annual World Fantasy Convention (2 titles) and by a panel of WFA judges (up to 3 titles). The awards are presented during the annual World Fantasy Convention. [NOTE: The titles in this list are "hotlinked" to the library's catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. Several of the earlier World Fantasy Award-winning novels have gone out of print and are no longer in our collection. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.]

For Science Fiction and Fantasy awards, please also see the following booklists: Hugo award winners, recognizing the SF/F books selected as the best each year by fans; Nebula award winners, recognizing the SF/F books selected as the best each year by the writers themselves; and the Sidewise award winners, recognizing the best in Alternate History novels each year.

World Fantasy Award Winners for Best Fantasy Novel

2011		Nnedi Okorafor Who Fears Death?
2010		China Mieville The City and the City
2009 [tie]		Jeffrey Ford The Shadow Year
2009 [tie]		Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels
2008		Guy Gavriel Kay Ysabel
2007		Gene Wolfe Soldier of Sidon
2006		Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
2005		Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
2004		Jo Walton Tooth and Claw
2003		Graham Joyce The Facts of Life
(tie)		Patricia McKillip Ombria in Shadow
2002		Ursula K. LeGuin The Other Wind
2001		Tim Powers Declare
(tie)		Sean Stewart Galveston
2000		Martin Scott Thraxas
1999		Louise Erdrich The Antelope Wife
1998		Jeffrey Ford The Physiognomy
1997		Rachel Pollack Godmother Night
1996		Christopher Priest The Prestige
1995		James Morrow Towering Jehovah
1994		Lewis Shiner Glimpses
1993		Tim Powers Last Call
1992		Robert R. McCammon Boy's Life
1991		Ellen Kushner Thomas the Rhymer
(tie)		James Morrow Only Begotten Daughter
1990		Jack Vance Madouc
1989		Peter Straub Koko
1988		Ken Grimwood Replay
1987		Patrick Suskind Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
1986		Dan Simmons The Song of Kali
1985		Robert Holdstock Mythago Woods
(tie)		Barry Hughart The Bridge of Birds
1984		John M. Ford The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History
1983		Michael Shea Nifft the Lean
1982		John Crowley Little, Big
1981		Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer
1980		Elizabeth A. Lynn Watchtower
1979		Michael Moorcock Gloriana
1978		Fritz Leiber Our Lady of Darkness
1977		William Kotzwinkle Doctor Rat
1976		Richard Matheson Bid Time Return
1975		Patricia McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Last updated December 2010 sdc

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