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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel's Reading List

Locus Magazine's annual reader-voted prize for Best Fantasy Novel, awarded since 1978.

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel — Winners

Winners list scraped from Wikipedia Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Silmarillion

J. R. R. Tolkien · 1978 · Buy on Amazon

Harpist in the Wind

Patricia A. McKillip · 1980 · Buy on Amazon

Lord Valentine's Castle

Robert Silverberg · 1981 · Buy on Amazon

The Claw of the Conciliator

Gene Wolfe · 1982 · Buy on Amazon

The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe · 1983 · Buy on Amazon

The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1984 · Buy on Amazon

Job: A Comedy of Justice

Robert A. Heinlein · 1985 · Buy on Amazon

Trumps of Doom

Roger Zelazny · 1986 · Buy on Amazon

Soldier of the Mist

Gene Wolfe · 1987 · Buy on Amazon

Seventh Son

Orson Scott Card · 1988 · Buy on Amazon

Red Prophet

Orson Scott Card · 1989 · Buy on Amazon

Prentice Alvin

Orson Scott Card · 1990 · Buy on Amazon

Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1991 · Buy on Amazon

Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper · 1992 · Buy on Amazon

Last Call

Tim Powers · 1993 · Buy on Amazon

The Innkeeper's Song

Peter S. Beagle · 1994 · Buy on Amazon

Brittle Innings

Michael Bishop · 1995 · Buy on Amazon

Alvin Journeyman

Orson Scott Card · 1996 · Buy on Amazon

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin · 1997 · Buy on Amazon

Earthquake Weather

Tim Powers · 1998 · Buy on Amazon

A Clash of Kings

George R. R. Martin · 1999 · Buy on Amazon

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling · 2000 · Buy on Amazon

A Storm of Swords

George R. R. Martin · 2001 · Buy on Amazon

American Gods

Neil Gaiman · 2002 · Buy on Amazon

The Scar

China Miéville · 2003 · Buy on Amazon

Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster Bujold · 2004 · Buy on Amazon

Iron Council

China Miéville · 2005 · Buy on Amazon

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman · 2006 · Buy on Amazon

The Privilege of the Sword

Ellen Kushner · 2007 · Buy on Amazon

Making Money

Terry Pratchett · 2008 · Buy on Amazon

Lavinia

Ursula Le Guin · 2009 · Buy on Amazon

The City & the City

China Miéville · 2010 · Buy on Amazon

Kraken

China Miéville · 2011 · Buy on Amazon

A Dance with Dragons

George R.R. Martin · 2012 · Buy on Amazon

The Apocalypse Codex

Charles Stross · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman · 2014 · Buy on Amazon

The Goblin Emperor

Katherine Addison · 2015 · Buy on Amazon

Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 2016 · Buy on Amazon

All The Birds In The Sky

Charlie Jane Anders · 2017 · Buy on Amazon

The Stone Sky

N. K. Jemisin · 2018 · Buy on Amazon

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

Middlegame

Seanan McGuire · 2020 · Buy on Amazon

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin · 2021 · Buy on Amazon

Jade Legacy

Fonda Lee · 2022 · Buy on Amazon

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang · 2023 · Buy on Amazon

Witch King

Martha Wells · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

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