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
5 stars
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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Somewhere in time by Richard Matheson
4 stars
Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the …
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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Phil in SF says: 1977 winner
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Our lady of darkness by Fritz Leiber
4 stars
Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his …
Phil in SF says: 1978 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1979 winner
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Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
Tornor Keep stands on the northernmost border of the land, one of a number of keeps built to defend the …
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)
4 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)
5 stars
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Phil in SF says: 1982 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1983 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1985 co-winner
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Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
5 stars
Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel by British writer Robert Holdstock, published in the United Kingdom in 1984. It won …
Phil in SF says: 1985 co-winner
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Using her stunning looks and hypnotically beautiful voice, Marcy Hanson achieved success beyond what she had imagined. But Dirk's charm …
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













