The Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel is a literary award given annually by Locus Magazine as part of their Locus Awards.
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Lavinia is the Locus Award-winning novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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The City & the City by China Miéville
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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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Kraken is a fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
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A Dance with Dragons is the fifth novel of seven planned in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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The apocalypse codex by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #4)
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"For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The work was …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
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A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
The …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
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An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #3)
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THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
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"A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
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In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
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From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
