Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Year listed is per the official Nebula web site, and reflects the award eligibility period, rather than the year it was announced. For example, the "1965 winner" reflects that the award was for novels published in 1965.
Nebula Award for Best Novel Public
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
4 stars
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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3 stars
When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, …
Phil in SF says: 2010 co-winner
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Phil in SF says: 2010 co-winner
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Jo Walton’s Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
4 stars
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
4 stars
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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4 stars
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
4 stars
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
4 stars
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
4 stars
After a global pandemic makes public gatherings illegal and concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Network Effect by Martha Wells
4 stars
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
4 stars
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
4 stars
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
