Nebula Award for Best Novel: every winner 1965–2025, on audiobook
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), a peer-voted award since 1966. Many winners — Dune, Neuromancer, Ender's Game, Ancillary Justice — also took the Hugo, the genre's rare double crown.
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Every Nebula Award for Best Novel winner, 1965–2025
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter | Stephen Graham Jones |
| 2024 | Someone You Can Build a Nest In | John Wiswell |
| 2023 | The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera |
| 2022 | Babel | R. F. Kuang |
| 2021 | A Master of Djinn | P. Djeli Clark |
| 2020 | Network Effect ✦ | Martha Wells |
| 2019 | A Song for a New Day | Sarah Pinsker |
| 2018 | The Calculating Stars ✦ | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2017 | The Stone Sky ✦ | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2016 | All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders |
| 2015 | Uprooted | Naomi Novik |
| 2014 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2013 | Ancillary Justice ✦ | Ann Leckie |
| 2012 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 2011 | Among Others ✦ | Jo Walton |
| 2010 | Blackout/All Clear ✦ | Connie Willis |
| 2009 | The Windup Girl ✦ | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2008 | Powers | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2007 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union ✦ | Michael Chabon |
| 2006 | Seeker | Jack McDevitt |
| 2005 | Camouflage | Joe Haldeman |
| 2004 | Paladin of Souls ✦ | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 2003 | The Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon |
| 2002 | American Gods ✦ | Neil Gaiman |
| 2001 | The Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro |
| 2000 | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear |
| 1999 | Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Butler |
| 1998 | Forever Peace ✦ | Joe Haldeman |
| 1997 | The Moon and the Sun | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 1996 | Slow River | Nicola Griffith |
| 1995 | The Terminal Experiment | Robert J. Sawyer |
| 1994 | Moving Mars | Greg Bear |
| 1993 | Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 1992 | Doomsday Book ✦ | Connie Willis |
| 1991 | Stations of the Tide | Michael Swanwick |
| 1990 | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1989 | The Healer's War | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
| 1988 | Falling Free | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 1987 | The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy |
| 1986 | Speaker for the Dead ✦ | Orson Scott Card |
| 1985 | Ender's Game ✦ | Orson Scott Card |
| 1984 | Neuromancer ✦ | William Gibson |
| 1983 | Startide Rising ✦ | David Brin |
| 1982 | No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop |
| 1981 | The Claw of the Conciliator | Gene Wolfe |
| 1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
| 1979 | The Fountains of Paradise ✦ | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1978 | Dreamsnake ✦ | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 1977 | Gateway ✦ | Frederik Pohl |
| 1976 | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl |
| 1975 | The Forever War ✦ | Joe Haldeman |
| 1974 | The Dispossessed ✦ | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1973 | Rendezvous with Rama ✦ | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1972 | The Gods Themselves ✦ | Isaac Asimov |
| 1971 | A Time of Changes | Robert Silverberg |
| 1970 | Ringworld ✦ | Larry Niven |
| 1969 | The Left Hand of Darkness ✦ | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1968 | Rite of Passage | Alexei Panshin |
| 1967 | The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delany |
| 1966 | Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany |
| 1966 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| 1965 | Dune ✦ | Frank Herbert |
Novels that won both the Hugo AND the Nebula
Science fiction's rare double crown — 26 novels have taken both the fan-voted Hugo and the writer-voted Nebula Award for Best Novel: American Gods · Among Others · Ancillary Justice · Blackout/All Clear · Doomsday Book · Dreamsnake · Dune · Ender's Game · Forever Peace · Gateway · Network Effect · Neuromancer · Paladin of Souls · Rendezvous with Rama · Ringworld · Speaker for the Dead · Startide Rising · The Calculating Stars · The Dispossessed · The Forever War · The Fountains of Paradise · The Gods Themselves · The Left Hand of Darkness · The Stone Sky · The Windup Girl · The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
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