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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
The 1975 WFC, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was chaired by Kirby McCauley. Judges were Ramsey Campbell, Edward L. Ferman, David G. Hartwell,...
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip, first published by Atheneum Publishers in 1974, and later Magic Carpet Books in 1996. It is the winner of the 1975 World Fantasy Award. The book centers on the fictional...
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Somewhere in time
Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson. It concerns a man from the 1970s who travels back in time to court a 19th century stage actress whose photograph has captivated him. The title comes from a line in Shakespeare's...
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Doctor Rat
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Gloriana
Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen is an award-winning work of literary fantasy by British novelist Michael Moorcock. It was first published in 1978 and has remained in print ever since.
On the novel's title page and on its original cover, Moorcock...
Watchtower
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The Shadow of the Torturer
The Shadow of the Torturer is a science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe, first released in 1980. It is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. Wolfe completed the series (in draft form) before the Shadow of the Torturer was...
Little, Big
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982.
Little, Big is the epic story of the Drinkwater family and their relationship with the mostly obscured...
Nifft the Lean
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The Dragon Waiting
The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History is a fantasy novel by John M. Ford, published in 1983. It won the 1984 World Fantasy Award.
The novel is a fantasy alternate history combining vampires, the Medicis, and the convoluted English politics...
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Mythago Wood
Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel written by the award winning author Robert Holdstock. This novel was published originally in the United Kingdom during 1984 and is an expanded version of a novella of the same name released previously by Robert...
Perfume
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical cross-genre novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell, and its relationship with the emotional meaning...
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Replay
Replay is a novel by Ken Grimwood first published by Arbor House in 1987. It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award.
Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18...
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Koko
Koko is a mystery novel written by Peter Straub and first published in the United States in 1988 by EP Dutton, and in Great Britain by Viking. It was the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1989.
Shortly after the end of the Iranian...
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Lyonesse: Madouc
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Only Begotten Daughter
Only Begotten Daughter is a 1990 fantasy novel written by James Morrow, setting the stage for his later Godhead Trilogy. The book shared the 1991 World Fantasy Award with Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer. It was also nominated for the Nebula Award...
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Boy's Life
Boy's Life is a novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert R. McCammon.
The book is the tale of twelve-year-old Cory Mackenson who grows up in the town of Zephyr, Alabama, where magic and surprise are commonplace. The plot of the story starts...
Last Call
Last Call (1992) is a fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It was published in New York by Harper Collins in 1996 with ISBN 0-380-72846-X. It is the first book in a loose trilogy called Fault Lines; the second book, Expiration Date (1995), is vaguely...
Glimpses
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Towing Jehovah
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The Prestige
The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest. The novel is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of real diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated. The title derives from the novel...
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Godmother Night
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The Physiognomy
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Thraxas
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Declare
Declare (2001) is a supernatural spy novel by Tim Powers. It presents a secret history of the Cold War in which an agent for a secret British spy organization learns the true nature of several beings living on Mount Ararat. In this he is opposed by...
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Galveston
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The Other Wind
The Other Wind is the sixth and (so far) last of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea. It follows on from Tehanu, the fourth novel, and the short story "Dragonfly" from the fifth book Tales...
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The Facts of Life
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Tooth and Claw
Tooth and Claw is a fantasy novel written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books in 2003. It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2004.
The book is a Victorian romance in which the protagonists are not human beings but dragons. Aside from...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternate history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has...
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami (2002). John Updike described it as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender". Since its 2005 English language release (2006...
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Soldier of Sidon
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Ysabel
Ysabel is the tenth novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. It was first published in January 2007 by Viking Canada. It is Kay's first urban fantasy and his first book set outside his fantasied Europe milieu since the publication of his...
