Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

The other finalists: Boneshaker; Finch; Flesh and Fire; The City & the City; The Love We Share Without Knowing.

All 6 books from 2009

Powers Ursula K. Le Guin

Powers

Ursula K. Le Guin

The other finalists: Brasyl; Cauldron; Little Brother; Making Money; Superpowers.

All 6 books from 2008

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Michael Chabon

The other finalists: Odyssey; Ragamuffin; The Accidental Time Machine; The New Moon’s Arms.

All 5 books from 2007

Seeker Jack McDevitt

Seeker

Jack McDevitt

The other finalists: Farthing; From the Files of the Time Rangers; The Privilege of the Sword; To Crush the Moon; The Girl in the Glass.

All 6 books from 2006

Camouflage Joe Haldeman

Camouflage

Joe Haldeman

The other finalists: Going Postal; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; Orphans of Chaos; Air; Polaris.

All 6 books from 2005

Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold

Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster Bujold

The other finalists: Cloud Atlas; Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom; Omega; Perfect Circle; The Knight.

All 6 books from 2004

The Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon

The Speed of Dark

Elizabeth Moon

The other finalists: Chindi; Diplomatic Immunity; Light Music; The Mount; The Salt Roads.

All 6 books from 2003

American Gods Neil Gaiman

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

The other finalists: Bones of the Earth; Perdido Street Station; Picoverse; Solitaire; The Other Wind.

All 6 books from 2002

The other finalists: A Storm of Swords; Declare; Eternity’s End; Mars Crossing; Passage; The Collapsium; The Tower at Stony Wood.

All 8 books from 2001

The other finalists: A Civil Campaign; Crescent City Rhapsody; Forests of the Heart; Infinity Beach; Midnight Robber.

All 6 books from 2000

The other finalists: A Clash of Kings; A Deepness in the Sky; Mission Child; Mockingbird; The Cassini Division.

All 6 books from 1999

The other finalists: How Few Remain; Moonfall; The Death of the Necromancer; The Last Hawk; To Say Nothing of the Dog.

All 6 books from 1998

The other finalists: A Game of Thrones; Ancient Shores; Bellwether; City on Fire; King’s Dragon; Memory.

All 7 books from 1997

The other finalists: Expiration Date; Starplex; The Diamond Age; The Silent Strength of Stones; Winter Rose.

All 6 books from 1996

The other finalists: Beggars and Choosers; Calde of the Long Sun; Celestis; Metropolitan; Mother of Storms.

All 6 books from 1995

The other finalists: A Night in the Lonesome October; Green Mars; Gun, with Occasional Music; Parable of the Sower; Temporary Agency; Towing Jehovah.

All 7 books from 1994

The other finalists: Assemblers of Infinity; Beggars in Spain; Hard Landing; Nightside the Long Sun.

All 5 books from 1993

The other finalists: A Fire upon the Deep; A Million Open Doors; Briar Rose; China Mountain Zhang; Sarah Canary.

All 6 books from 1992

The other finalists: Barrayar; Bone Dance; Orbital Resonance; Synners; The Difference Engine.

All 6 books from 1991

The other finalists: Mary Reilly; Only Begotten Daughter; Redshift Rendezvous; The Fall of Hyperion; White Jenna.

All 6 books from 1990

The other finalists: Good News from Outer Space; Ivory; Prentice Alvin; Sister Light, Sister Dark; The Boat of a Million Years.

All 6 books from 1989

The other finalists: Deserted Cities of the Heart; Drowning Towers; Great Sky River; Mona Lisa Overdrive; Red Prophet; The Urth of the New Sun.

All 7 books from 1988

The other finalists: Soldier of the Mist; The Forge of God; The Uplift War; Vergil in Averno; When Gravity Fails.

All 6 books from 1987

The other finalists: Count Zero; Free Live Free; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Journal of Nicholas the American; This Is the Way the World Ends.

All 6 books from 1986

The other finalists: Blood Music; Dinner at Deviant’s Palace; Helliconia Winter; Schismatrix; The Postman; The Remaking of Sigmund Freud.

All 7 books from 1985

The other finalists: Frontera; Job; The Integral Trees; The Man Who Melted; The Wild Shore.

All 6 books from 1984

The other finalists: Against Infinity; Lyonesse; Tea with the Black Dragon; The Citadel of the Autarch; The Void Captain’s Tale.

All 6 books from 1983

The other finalists: Foundation’s Edge; Friday; Helliconia Spring; The Sword of the Lictor; The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

All 6 books from 1982

The other finalists: Little, Big; Radix; Riddley Walker; The Many-Colored Land; The Vampire Tapestry.

All 6 books from 1981

The other finalists: Beyond the Blue Event Horizon; Mockingbird; The Orphan; The Shadow of the Torturer; The Snow Queen.

All 6 books from 1980

The other finalists: Jem; Juniper Time; On Wings of Song; The Road to Corlay; Titan.

All 6 books from 1979

The other finalists: Blind Voices; Kalki; Strangers; The Faded Sun.

All 5 books from 1978

The other finalists: Cirque; In the Ocean of Night; Moonstar Odyssey; Sword of the Demon.

All 5 books from 1977

The other finalists: Inferno; Islands; Shadrach in the Furnace; Triton; Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.

All 6 books from 1976

The other finalists: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire; A Midsummer Tempest; Autumn Angels; Dhalgren; Doorways in the Sand; Guernica Night; Invisible Cities; Missing Man; Ragtime; The Birthgrave; The Computer Connection; The Embedding; The Exile Waiting; The Female Man; The Heritage of Hastur; The Mote in God’s Eye; The Stochastic Man.

All 18 books from 1975

The other finalists: 334; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; The Godwhale.

All 4 books from 1974

The other finalists: Gravity’s Rainbow; The Man Who Folded Himself; The People of the Wind; Time Enough for Love.

All 5 books from 1973

The other finalists: Dying Inside; The Book of Skulls; The Iron Dream; The Sheep Look Up; What Entropy Means to Me; When HARLIE Was One.

All 7 books from 1972

The other finalists: Half Past Human; Margaret and I; The Byworlder; The Devil Is Dead; The Lathe of Heaven.

All 6 books from 1971

The other finalists: And Chaos Died; Fourth Mansions; The Steel Crocodile; The Year of the Quiet Sun; Tower of Glass.

All 6 books from 1970

The other finalists: Bug Jack Barron; Isle of the Dead; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Jagged Orbit; Up the Line.

All 6 books from 1969

The other finalists: Black Easter; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Past Master; Picnic on Paradise; Stand on Zanzibar; The Masks of Time.

All 7 books from 1968

The other finalists: Chthon; Lord of Light; The Eskimo Invasion; Thorns.

All 5 books from 1967

The other finalists: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

All 3 books from 1966

The other finalists: A Plague of Demons; All Flesh Is Grass; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Nova Express; Rogue Dragon; The Clone; The Escape Orbit; The Genocides; The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream; The Star Fox; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

All 12 books from 1965