World Fantasy Best Novel

 

2011 selection

Who Fears Death

World Fantasy Best Novel 2011

by Nnedi Okorafor

The critically-acclaimed novel-now in paperback.

In a far-future, post-apocalyptic Saharan Africa, genocide plagues one region. When the only surviving member of a slain village is brutally raped, she manages...


2010 selection

The City & The City

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2010, Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2010, Arthur C. Clarke 2010, World Fantasy Best Novel 2010

by China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES...


2009 selection

The Shadow Year

World Fantasy Best Novel 2009

by Jeffrey Ford

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom...


Tender Morsels

World Fantasy Best Novel 2009

by Margo Lanagan

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her...


2008 selection

Ysabel

World Fantasy Best Novel 2008

by Guy Gavriel Kay

Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the lens of a celebrated photographer, and a perfect place for the photographer's son, Ned Marriner,...


2007 selection

Soldier of Sidon

The Soldier series #3

World Fantasy Best Novel 2007

by Gene Wolfe

Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful...


2006 selection

Kafka on the Shore

World Fantasy Best Novel 2006

by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister;...


2005 selection

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2005, World Fantasy Best Novel 2005

by Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke's brilliant novel is an utterly compelling, epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the way two very different magicians, who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its...


2004 selection

Tooth and Claw

World Fantasy Best Novel 2004

by Jo Walton

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons

Tooth and Claw

Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King’s Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod....


2003 selection

Ombria in Shadow

World Fantasy Best Novel 2003

by Patricia McKillip

When Ombria’s prince, Royce Greve, breathes his last—in palace rooms high above the city—he leaves his young son and mistress at the mercy of his ancient and powerful great-aunt, Domina Pearl. Meanwhile,...


2002 selection

The Other Wind

Earthsea novels #5

World Fantasy Best Novel 2002

by Ursula K. Le Guin

An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards.


2001 selection

Declare

World Fantasy Best Novel 2001

by Tim Powers

As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront...


1999 selection

The Antelope Wife

World Fantasy Best Novel 1999

by Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife extends the branches of the families who populate Louise Erdrich's earlier novels, and once again, her unsentimental, unsparing writing captures the Native American sense of despair, magic,...


1993 selection

Last Call

Locus Best Fantasy Novel 1993, World Fantasy Best Novel 1993

by Tim Powers

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.

Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld...


1991 selection

Thomas the Rhymer

World Fantasy Best Novel 1991

by Ellen Kushner

Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid

contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with...


1989 selection

Koko

Blue Rose Trilogy #1

World Fantasy Best Novel 1989

by Peter Straub

Bestselling author Peter Straub's Koko is a gripping psychological thriller in which horror and paranoia are indistinguishable from reality.Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They...


1988 selection

Replay

World Fantasy Best Novel 1988

by Ken Grimwood

Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again --...


1986 selection

Song of Kali

World Fantasy Best Novel 1986

by Dan Simmons

Elizabeth Ann Scarboroughís Song of Sorcery is another light-hearted contemporary fantasy adventure which will please the authorís many fans. Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely...


1982 selection

Little, Big

World Fantasy Best Novel 1982

by John Crowley

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater,...


1979 selection

Gloriana

World Fantasy Best Novel 1979

by Michael Moorcock, Tom Joyner & Mary Flowers Boyce

Queen Elizabeth I of England (ruled in late 1500's), also known as Gloriana and Good Queen Bess, has been a source of endless fascination for centuries. There are many movies (Elizabeth made Cate Blanchett's...


1978 selection

Our Lady of Darkness

World Fantasy Best Novel 1978

by Fritz Leiber

Ben Raines is searching for his family in the chaos that remains after devastation hits America. Thieves and gangsters take the streets in the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse. Fearful American citizens band...