Award
Locus Award
56 years tracked (1971–2026), 712 entries total.
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet.
2020
Best Young Adult Book
Dragon Pearl
King of Scars
The Secret Commonwealth
The Wicked King
Best Horror Novel
The Institute
Best Illustrated or Art Book
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Best SF Novel
The Testaments
2019
First Novel
Trail of Lightning
Children of Blood and Bone
Severance
The Poppy War
Science Fiction Novel
Embers of War
Horror Novel
The Outsider
2018
All Systems Red
The Stone Sky
A Skinful of Shadows
All Our Wrong Todays
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
In Other Lands
La Belle Sauvage
Persepolis Rising
The Art of Starving
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Delirium Brief
The Prey of Gods
2017
All the Birds in the Sky
Every Heart a Doorway
Ninefox Gambit
The Fireman
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Babylon's Ashes
Borderline
City of Blades
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Nightmare Stacks
The Obelisk Gate
The Underground Railroad
This Savage Song
Truthwitch
2016
2015
Best Science Fiction Novel
Ancillary Sword
Annihilation
Lock In
The Peripheral
Best Fantasy Novel
City of Stairs
Full Fathom Five
Revival
The Magician's Land
Words of Radiance
Best Anthology, Best Novelette for “Tough Times All Over” by Joe Abercrombie and for Best Novella
Rogues
2014
Abaddon's Gate
Ancillary Justice
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Doctor Sleep
MaddAddam
NOS4A2
River of Stars
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
The Dream Thieves
The Golem and the Jinni
The Republic of Thieves
When We Wake
2013
Best Young Adult Book
Railsea
Every Day
Sea Hearts
The Diviners
The Drowned Cities
Best Science Fiction Novel
Redshirts
Best Young Adult Novel
Black Heart
Best Fantasy Novel
Comme un conte
Red Country
The Drowning Girl
The Killing Moon
The King's Blood
Best Anthology
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
2012
Best Fantasy Novel
A Dance with Dragons
Among Others
Snuff
The Cold Commands
The Heroes
The Magician King
The Wise Man's Fear
Best Short Story for “The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman
A Study in Sherlock
Best Young Adult Book
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2011
Best Science Fiction Novel
All Clear
Blackout
CryoBurn
Surface Detail
The Dervish House
Best Fantasy Novel
Kraken
Horns
Shades of Grey
The Bards of Bone Plain
The Desert Spear
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Way of Kings
Under Heaven
Who Fears Death
Best Young Adult Book
Ship Breaker
Behemoth
Enchanted Glass
I Shall Wear Midnight
Mockingjay
Pathfinder
White Cat
Best Art Book
Instructions
Best Young Adult Novel
Lord Sunday
Best SF Novel
The Passage
Best Anthology
Zombies Vs. Unicorns
2010
Best Young Adult Book
Leviathan
Best Fantasy Novel
The City & the City
Canticle
Finch
The Price of Spring
The Red Tree
Unseen Academicals
Best Collection
Slow Sculpture
Best Young Adult Novel
The Ask and the Answer
2009
Best Fantasy Novel
Lavinia
An Autumn War
The Bell at Sealey Head
The Dragons of Babel
The Love We Share Without Knowing
Best SF Novel
Matter
Best Anthology
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
2008
Best Fantasy Novel
Making Money
In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Territory
Ysabel
Best Art Book
The Arrival
Best Young Adult Novel
Un Lun Dun
Book of a Thousand Days
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Ironside
Skin Hunger
Best First Novel and Best Fantasy Novel
The Name of the Wind
2007
Best First Novel
Black Powder War
His Majesty's Dragon
Throne of Jade
A Shadow in Summer
The Blade Itself
Best Art Book
Amphigorey Again
Best Fantasy Novel
Lisey's Story
The Brief History of the Dead
The Thousandfold Thought
Best Collection
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Best Fantasy Novel and Best First Novel
The Lies of Locke Lamora
2006
Best Fantasy Novel
Anansi Boys
A Feast for Crows
Fledgling
Glass Soup
Knife of Dreams
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
The Hallowed Hunt
The Narrows
Thud!
Best Collection and Best Novella for “Magic for Beginners”
Magic for Beginners
Best Young Adult Novel
City of Flowers
Conrad's Fate
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Ptolemy's Gate
Skybreaker
Touching Darkness
Valiant
Best SF Novel and Best First Novel
Old Man's War
Best Young Adult Book
Peeps
2005
Best Young Adult Novel
A Hat Full of Sky
Best Science Fiction Novel
The System of the World
Best SF Novel
Air
Alphabet of Thorn
Camouflage
Cloud Atlas
The Algebraist
The Last Light of the Sun
The Plot Against America
Best Young Adult Book
Airborn
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Gun, With Occasional Music
Mirror Dance
Foreigner
Insomnia
Lord of Chaos
Midshipman's Hope
Parable of the Sower
Permutation City
Rama Revealed
Rheingold
Storm Warning
Taltos
Wizard's First Rule
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
All-Time Best Science Fiction Novel
1984
Best Collection
Burning Chrome
Best Anthology
Wild Cards
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
Best Fantasy Novel
Lord Valentine's Castle
Shadowland
Split Infinity
The Northern Girl
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Vampire Tapestry
The Wounded Land
Best Anthology
Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn
Best Novel
The Ringworld Engineers
Best Single Author Collection
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
1980
1979
Best Novel
Dreamsnake
A Different Light
Blind Voices
Colony
Hotel Transylvania
Journey
Kalki
Saint Camber
Sight of Proteus
Stardance II
Stormqueen!
Strangers
The Avatar
The Eye of the Heron
The Faded Sun: Kesrith
The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
The Far Call
The Masters of Solitude
The Outcasts of Heaven Belt
The Stars in Shroud
Up the Walls of the World
1978
1977
Best Author Collection
A Song for Lya: And Other Stories
Best Novel
A World Out of Time
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Brothers of Earth
Children of Dune
Cloned Lives
Dragonsong
Floating Worlds
Imperial Earth
Inferno
Man Plus
Maske: Thaery
Michaelmas
Millennium
Mindbridge
Pontesprit
Shadrach in the Furnace
The Clewiston Test
The Dragon and the George
The End of All Songs
The Hand of Oberon
The Shattered Chain
Time of the Fourth Horseman
Triton
1976
The Forever War
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Blake's Progress
Dhalgren
Doorways in the Sand
Lifeboat
Missing Man
Norstrilia
Showboat World
Sign of the Unicorn
The Birthgrave
The Computer Connection
The Exile Waiting
The Female Man
The Heritage of Hastur
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Shockwave Rider
The Stochastic Man
The Warriors of Dawn
1975
All-Time Best Novel
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Best Novel
The Dispossessed
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
A Midsummer Tempest
Fire Time
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
How Are the Mighty Fallen
Icerigger
Prince of Annwn
Star Rider
Stargate
The Company of Glory
The Destruction of the Temple
The Dream Millennium
The Godwhale
The Gray Prince
The Inverted World
The Mote in God's Eye
The Twilight of Briareus
The Unsleeping Eye
Total Eclipse
Walk to the End of the World
All-Time Best Novel (36th in poll)
Flowers for Algernon
Best SF Novel
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
1974
Best Novelette for "The Deathbird"
Deathbird Stories
Best Novel
Rendezvous with Rama
Gravity's Rainbow
Herovit's World
Hiero's Journey
Protector
Relatives
The Cloud Walker
The Doomsday Gene
The Far Call
The Man Who Folded Himself
The People of the Wind
Time Enough for Love
To Die in Italbar
Today We Choose Faces
Trullion: Alastor 2262
1973
Best Novel
The Gods Themselves
A Choice of Gods
Beyond Apollo
Beyond the Resurrection
Deryni Checkmate
Other Days, Other Eyes
The Book of Skulls
The Brave Free Men
The Castle Keeps
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Guns of Avalon
The Iron Dream
The Listeners
The Pritcher Mass
The Sheep Look Up
There Will Be Time
Tunnel Through the Deeps
What Entropy Means to Me
When HARLIE Was One
Yesterday's Children
Best SF Novel
Dying Inside
Best Novella
The Word for World is Forest
1972
The Lathe of Heaven
A Time of Changes
Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine
Dragonquest
Furthest
Jack of Shadows
Son of Man
The Byworlder
The Devil is Dead
The Fabulous Riverboat
The Forest of Forever
The Second Trip
The World Inside
The World Menders
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971
Best Novel
Ringworld
After Things Fell Apart
And Chaos Died
Beastchild
Chronocules
Deryni Rising
Downward to the Earth
Fourth Mansions
I Will Fear No Evil
Nine Princes in Amber
Star Light
Tactics of Mistake
The Steel Crocodile
The Year of the Quiet Sun
Tower of Glass
Best SF Novel
Tau Zero