World Fantasy Awards
Program · Fantasy · Tier 3: Genre and Specialist Trade Awards · Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Juried and convention-connected awards recognising outstanding fantasy literature and achievement.
2024
18 booksHalf the House Is Haunted
WinnerSilk and Cotton and Linen and Blood
WinnerThe Reformatory
WinnerA Season of Monstrous Conceptions
How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub
John Hollowback and the Witch
Mammoths at the Gates
Mirror Bay
Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont
Prince Hat Underground
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Starling House
The Crane Husband
The Possibilities
The Sound of Children Screaming
Thornhedge
Waystation City
Witch King
2023
15 books
2022
16 books(emet)
WinnerAnd What Can We Offer You Tonight
WinnerThe Jasmine Throne
Winner#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi
A Canticle for Lost Girls
A Master of Djinn
Black Water Sister
Finches
For Sale by Owner
If the Martians Have Magic
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
The City Beautiful
The Demon Sage's Daughter
The Failing Name
The Last House on Needless Street
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather
2021
15 booksGlass Bottle Dancer
WinnerRiot Baby
WinnerTrouble the Saints
WinnerFlyaway
Mexican Gothic
My Country Is a Ghost
Open House on Haunted Hill
Piranesi
Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times
Stepsister
The Four Profound Weaves
The Midnight Bargain
The Nine Scents of Sorrow
The Only Good Indians
The Women Who Sing for Sklep
2020
16 booksQueen of the Conquered
WinnerRead After Burning
WinnerSilver in the Wood
WinnerBlood Is Another Word for Hunger
Desdemona and the Deep
Everyone Knows That They're Dead. Do You?
For He Can Creep
Gideon the Ninth
In an Absent Dream
Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye
The Butcher's Table
The Deep
The Memory Police
The Raven Tower
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
2019
15 booksLike a River Loves the Sky
WinnerTen Deals with the Indigo Snake
WinnerThe Privilege of the Happy Ending
WinnerWitchmark
WinnerA Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies
Beneath the Sugar Sky
In the Night Wood
The Black God’s Drums
The Court Magician
The Mere Wife
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Poppy War
The Tea Master and the Detective
The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation
Trail of Lightning
2018
16 booksJade City
WinnerPassing Strange
WinnerThe Birding: A Fairy Tale
WinnerThe Changeling
WinnerCarnival Nine
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand
In Calabria
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Mapping the Interior
Old Souls
Spoonbenders
The Black Tides of Heaven
The City of Brass
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
The Teardrop Method
Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™
2017
14 booksDas Steingeschöpf
WinnerThe Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
WinnerThe Sudden Appearance of Hope
WinnerA Taste of Honey
Bloodybones
Every Heart a Doorway
Little Widow
Lovecraft Country
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies
Roadsouls
Seasons of Glass and Iron
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me
The Obelisk Gate
2016
17 booksHungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
WinnerThe Chimes
WinnerThe Unlicensed Magician
WinnerA Head Full of Ghosts
Borderline
Farewell Blues
Guignol
Pockets
Savages
The Buried Giant
The Deepwater Bride
The Fifth Season
The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History
The Neurastheniac
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
Uprooted
Waters of Versailles
2015
16 booksDo You Like to Look at Monsters?
WinnerThe Bone Clocks
WinnerWe Are All Completely Fine
WinnerArea X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
City of Stairs
Death's Door Café
Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)
Hollywood North
I Can See Right Through You
Jackalope Wives
My Real Children
The Devil in America
The Fisher Queen
The Goblin Emperor
The Mothers of Voorhisville
Where the Trains Turn
2014
15 booksA Stranger in Olondria
WinnerThe Prayer of Ninety Cats
WinnerWakulla Springs
WinnerBlack Helicopters
Burning Girls
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Effigy Nights
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
Selkie Stories Are for Losers
Six-Gun Snow White
The Golem and the Jinni
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
The Land Across
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Sun And I
2013
15 books
2012
15 booksA Small Price to Pay for Birdsong
WinnerOsama
WinnerThe Paper Menagerie
Winner11/22/63
A Dance with Dragons
A Journey of Only Two Paces
Alice Through the Plastic Sheet
Among Others
Near Zennor
Rose Street Attractors
Silently and Very Fast
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees
Those Across the River
X for Demetrious
Younger Women
2011
17 booksFossil-Figures
WinnerThe Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon
WinnerWho Fears Death
WinnerBeautiful Men
Bone and Jewel Creatures
Booth's Ghost
Ponies
Redemption in Indigo
The Broken Man
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window
The Mystery Knight
The Silent Land
The Thief of Broken Toys
Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us
Under Heaven
Zoo City
2010
17 booksSea-Hearts
WinnerThe City & the City
WinnerThe Pelican Bar
WinnerA Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc; or, A Lullaby
Blood of Ambrose
Everland
Finch
I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said
In Great Waters
In Hiding
Light on the Water
Singing on a Star
The Lion's Den
The Night Cache
The Persistence of Memory; or, This Space for Sale
The Red Tree
The Women of Nell Gwynne's
2009
15 books26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
WinnerIf Angels Fight
WinnerTender Morsels
WinnerThe Shadow Year
WinnerA Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica
Caverns of Mystery
Good Boy
Odd and the Frost Giants
Our Man in the Sudan
Pandemonium
Pride and Prometheus
The Graveyard Book
The House of the Stag
The Overseer
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel
2008
15 booksIllyria
WinnerSinging of Mount Abora
WinnerYsabel
WinnerCold Snap
Damned if You Don't
Fangland
Stars Seen Through Stone
Territory
The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics
The Church on the Island
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
The Gospel of the Knife
The Master Miller's Tale
The Mermaids
The Servants
2007
15 booksBotch Town
WinnerJourney Into the Kingdom
WinnerSoldier of Sidon
WinnerA Siege of Cranes
Another Word for Map Is Faith
Dark Harvest
In the Night Garden
Lisey's Story
Map of Dreams
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire
The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train
The Privilege of the Sword
The Way He Does It
2006
16 books
2005
16 books
2004
15 books
2003
15 books
2002
18 booksQueen for a Day
WinnerThe Bird Catcher
WinnerThe Other Wind
WinnerAmerican Gods
Brown Harvest
Cleopatra Brimstone
Eternity and Afterward
From the Dust Returned
His Own Back Yard
Karuna, Inc.
Legerdemain
Something to Hitch Meat To
Struwwelpeter
The Curse of Chalion
The Finder
The Honeyed Knot
The Onion Girl
The Wooden Sea
2001
20 booksDeclare
WinnerGalveston
WinnerThe Man on the Ceiling
WinnerThe Pottawatomie Giant
WinnerBlue Kansas Sky
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol
Down Here in the Garden
Is There Anybody There?
Lincoln in Frogmore
Lord of Emperors
Mr Simonelli or The Fairy Widower
Mr. Dark's Carnival
Pelican Cay
Perdido Street Station
Seventy-Two Letters
Shoe and Marriage
The Amber Spyglass
The Grand Ellipse
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O
The Saltimbanques
2000
19 booksSky Eyes
WinnerThe Chop Girl
WinnerThe Transformation of Martin Lake
WinnerThraxas
WinnerA Red Heart of Memories
A Witness to Life
Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue
Crocodile Rock
Gardens of the Moon
Human Bay
Naming the Dead
Scarlet and Gold
Tamsin
The Dynasters: Vol. 1: On the Downs
The Grammarian's Five Daughters
The Parwat Ruby
The Rainy Season
The Winds of Marble Arch
The Wizard Retires
1999
15 books
1998
15 books1997
15 books
1996
18 booksRadio Waves
WinnerThe Grass Princess
WinnerThe Prestige
WinnerA suivre
All the Bells on Earth
Angel Thing
Dragon's Fin Soup
Ether, OR
Expiration Date
Home for Christmas
Loop
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Requiem
The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom: (Hommage à Heinlein)
The Perseids
The Silent Strength of Stones
The Singing Marine
Where They Are Hid
1995
17 booksLast Summer at Mars Hill
WinnerThe Man in the Black Suit
WinnerTowing Jehovah
WinnerA Slow Red Whisper of Sand
Brittle Innings
Fee
From the Teeth of Angels
Love & Sleep
Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright ...
The Changeling's Tale
The Circus of the Earth and the Air
The God Who Slept with Women
The Homecoming
The Last Time
The Sisterhood of Night
To Receive Is Better
Waking the Moon
1994
20 booksGlimpses
WinnerThe Lodger
WinnerUnder the Crust
WinnerDeath in Bangkok
Drawing Blood
England Underway
Lord of the Two Lands
Mefisto in Onyx
Skin
Some Strange Desire
Something Worse
The Erl-King
The Innkeeper's Song
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
The Little Green Ones
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep
The Night We Buried Road Dog
The Throat
Troll Bridge
Wall, Stone, Craft
1993
17 books
1992
16 booksBoy's Life
WinnerThe Ragthorn
WinnerThe Somewhere Doors
WinnerBone Dance
Gwydion and the Dragon
Hunting the Ghost Dancer
Our Lady of the Harbour
Outside the Dog Museum
Pity the Monsters
The Better Boy
The Conjure Man
The Gallery of His Dreams
The Little Country
The Paper Grail
The Pavilion of Frozen Women
To Become a Sorcerer
1991
13 books
1990
17 booksEisenheim the Illusionist
WinnerGreat Work of Time
WinnerMadouc
Winner"Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243)
A Child Across the Sky
A Dozen Tough Jobs
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana
Carrion Comfort
In a Dark Dream
Mr. Fiddlehead
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks
Soldier of Aretê
The Edge of the World
The Father of Stones
The Stress of Her Regard
Varicose Worms
1989
14 books
1988
20 booksBuffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
WinnerFriend's Best Man
WinnerReplay
WinnerAngel
Best Friends
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands
Hypothetical Lizard
In the House of Gingerbread
Misery
Nesting Instinct
On Stranger Tides
Pamela's Get
Seventh Son
Shades
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale
Swan Song
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead
The Pear-Shaped Man
The Solitudes
Weaveworld
1987
20 booksHatrack River
WinnerPerfume
WinnerRed Light
WinnerChance
It
Night Moves
Pain
Soldier of the Mist
Strangers
Talking Man
The Boy Who Plaited Manes
The Brains of Rats
The End of the Whole Mess
The Hellbound Heart
The Night Seasons
The Pet
The Rise and Fall of Father Alex
The Tricksters
They're Coming for You
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
1986
15 books
1985
14 booksBridge of Birds
WinnerMythago Wood
WinnerStill Life with Scorpion
WinnerThe Bones Wizard
WinnerThe Unconquered Country
WinnerArcher's Goon
Bad Medicine
In the Sumerian Marshes
Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament
Nightcrawlers
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
The Ceremonies
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule
The Talisman
1984
17 booksBlack Air
WinnerElle Est Trois, (La Mort)
WinnerThe Dragon Waiting
WinnerInto Whose Hands
Lyonesse
Nunc Dimittis
Pet Sematary
Solitario's Eyes
Tea with the Black Dragon
The Armageddon Rag
The Hundred-Year Christmas
The Lurking Duck
The Monkey's Bride
The Red Hawk
The Silent Cradle
The Wandering Unicorn
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