Books that have won the Best Novel category for the World Fantasy Award.
World Fantasy Award Best Novel Public
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The forgotten beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Raised on Eld mountain with only her father's magical menagerie for company, a young wizard is drawn irrevocably into the …
Phil in SF says: 1975 winner
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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
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
4 stars
In a land brought to life by warriors and lovers, war and honor, the legendary tower, Tornor Keep, is invaded …
Phil in SF says: 1980 winner
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The shadow of the torturer by Gene Wolfe (The book of the new Sun -- v. 1)
3 stars
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It …
Phil in SF says: 1981 winner
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Little, big by John Crowley (duplicate)
2 stars
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
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)
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
3 stars
Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none …
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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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
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
