Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Year listed is per the official Nebula web site, and reflects the award eligibility period, rather than the year it was announced. For example, the "1965 winner" reflects that the award was for novels published in 1965.
Nebula Award for Best Novel Public
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
4 stars
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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4 stars
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel …
Phil in SF says: 2010 co-winner
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4 stars
Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for …
Phil in SF says: 2010 co-winner
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4 stars
Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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3 stars
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
4 stars
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
4 stars
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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4 stars
"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: 2015 winner
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
4 stars
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #3)
4 stars
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #1)
4 stars
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
4 stars
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
4 stars
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
4 stars
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
