List of Nebula Award winning novels

This is a list of novels that have won the Nebula Award for best novel, along with nominees. Typically there are six nominees and one winner. All nominees are listed, with a gender breakdown, and books by women are bolded in the nominee list.

2000s

• 2006

  Seeker by Jack McDevitt

  nominees: 4M/2F: The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner; Farthing by Jo Walton;Seeker, by Jack McDevit; The Girl in the Glass, by Jeffrey Ford; From the Files of the Time Rangers, by Richard Bowes; To Crush the Moon, by Wil McCarthy

  2005

  Camouflage by Joe Haldeman

  nominees: 5M/1F: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

  2004

  Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

  nominees:

  2003

  The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

  nominees:Diplomatic Immunity, by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Mount, by Carol Emshwiller; Light Music, by Kathleen Ann Goonan; The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson; Chindi, by Jack McDevitt; The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

  2002

  American Gods, Neil Gaiman

  nominees: Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge; American Gods, by Neil Gaiman; The Other Wind, by Ursula K. Le Guin; Picoverse, by Robert A. Metzger; Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville; Bones of the Earth , Michael Swanwick

  2001

  The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro

  nominees:

  2000

  Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear

  nominees:

1990s

• 1999

  Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

  nominees:

  1998

  Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman

  nominees:

  1997

  The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre

  nominees:

  1996

  Slow River, Nicola Griffith

  nominees:

  1995

  The Terminal Experiment (mg title "Hobson's Choice"), Robert J. Sawyer

  nominees:

  1994

  Moving Mars, Greg Bear

  nominees:

  1993 Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

  nominees:

  1992

  Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

  nominees:

  1991

  Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick

  nominees:

  1990

  Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

  nominees:

1980s

• 1989 The Healer's War, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

  nominees:

  1988

  Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold

  nominees:

  1987

  The Falling Woman, Pat Murphy

  nominees:

  1986

  Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card

  nominees:

  1985

  Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

  nominees:

  1984

  Neuromancer, William Gibson

  nominees:

  1983

  Startide Rising, David Brin

  nominees:

  1982

  No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop

  nominees:

  1981

  The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe

  nominees:

  1980

  Timescape, Gregory Benford

  nominees:

1970s

• 1979

  The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke

  nominees:

  1978

  Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre

  nominees:

  1977 Gateway, Frederik Pohl

  nominees:

  1976

  Man Plus, Frederik Pohl

  nominees:

  1975

  The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

  nominees:

  1974

  The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

  nominees:

  1973

  Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke

  nominees:

  1972

  The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov

  nominees:

  1971

  A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg

  nominees:

  1970

  Ringworld, Larry Niven

  nominees:

1970s

• 1969

  The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

  nominees:

  1968

  Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin

  nominees:

  1967

  The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R. Delany

  nominees:

  1966: (tie) Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany

• nominees:

  1965

  Dune, Frank Herbert

  nominees: