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There are various competitions that attempt to find the best science fiction, fantasy and horror of each year, and I've collated the winners and nominees from what seems to be the major awards in a series of posts (see the very bottom for links to all of them). The requirement for inclusion is that the award ceremony occurs in the current year (as listed in the title), so the post will be updated as they are announced throughout the year.

The awards considered are: Arthur C. Clarke, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, BSFA, Compton Crook, Dragon, Eugie, Hugo/Lodestar, John W. Campbell Memorial, Lambda, Locus, Nebula/Andre Norton, Otherwise, Philip K. Dick, Prometheus, Shirley Jackson, Sturgeon and World Fantasy.

This is the post for the novel category. The ordering is based on the "score" of each book, with a nomination giving 1 point, and a win giving 1.5 points. Otherwise it's ordered by title. What do you think should win?

6: A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
Winner - Compton Crook (Debut)
Winner - Hugo
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
Finalist - Nebula
- Amazon

5: The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
Finalist - Compton Crook (Debut)
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
Finalist - Nebula
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

4.5: Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Finalist - Hugo
Winner - Locus (Debut)
Finalist - Nebula
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

3.5: Catfishing on CatNet - Naomi Kritzer
Finalist - Andre Norton (YA)
Finalist - Locus (YA)
Winner - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

3.5: Dragon Pearl - Yoon Ha Lee
Finalist - Andre Norton (YA)
Winner - Locus (YA)
Finalist - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

3.5: The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
Finalist - Hugo
Winner - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

3: A Song for a New Day - Sarah Pinsker
Finalist - Compton Crook (Debut)
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
Finalist - Nebula
- Amazon

3: The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
Finalist - Hugo
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

3: The Rosewater Redemption - Tade Thompson
Finalist - BSFA
Finalist - Locus (SF)
Finalist - Philip K Dick
- Amazon

2.5: Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
Finalist - Lambda (SF/F/Horror)
Winner - Locus (Horror)
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2.5: Middlegame - Seanan McGuire
Finalist - Hugo
Winner - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

2.5: Riverland - Fran Wilde
Winner - Andre Norton (YA)
Finalist - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

2: Curious Toys - Elizabeth Hand
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

2: Fleet of Knives - Gareth L. Powell
Finalist - BSFA
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

2: Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
Finalist - Nebula
- Amazon

2: Luna: Moon Rising - Ian McDonald
Finalist - Locus (SF)
Finalist - Prometheus
- Amazon

2: Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

2: Pet - Akwaeke Emezi
Finalist - Locus (YA)
Finalist - Otherwise
- Amazon

2: The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
Finalist - Bram Stoker (Debut)
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

2: The Outside - Ada Hoffmann
Finalist - Compton Crook (Debut)
Finalist - Philip K Dick
- Amazon

2: The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

2: The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
Finalist - Locus (SF)
Finalist - Prometheus
- Amazon

2: The Wicked King - Holly Black
Finalist - Locus (YA)
Finalist - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

2: Wanderers - Chuck Wendig
Finalist - Bram Stoker
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

1.5: Alliance Rising - C. J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher
Winner - Prometheus
- Amazon

1.5: Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Winner - BSFA
- Amazon

1.5: Coyote Rage - Owl Goingback
Winner - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1.5: Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
Winner - Otherwise
- Amazon

1.5: Marque of Caine - Charles E. Gannon
Winner - Nebula
- Amazon

1.5: Oware Mosaic - Nzondi
Winner - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1.5: The Bone Weaver's Orchard - Sarah Read
Winner - Bram Stoker (Debut)
- Amazon

1.5: The Book of X - Sarah Rose Etter
Winner - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1: A Brightness Long Ago - Guy Gavriel Kay
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: A Spectral Hue - Craig Laurance Gidney
Finalist - Lambda (SF/F/Horror)
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1: Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

1: Angel Mage - Garth Nix
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju - Kim Newman
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: Atlas Alone - Emma Newman
Finalist - BSFA
- Amazon

1: Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
- Amazon

1: Cog - Greg van Eekhout
Finalist - Andre Norton (YA)
- Amazon

1: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: Dear Laura - Gemma Amor
Finalist - Bram Stoker (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Deeplight - Frances Hardinge
Finalist - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

1: Destroy All Monsters - Sam J. Miller
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: Doorways to the Deadeye - Eric J. Guignard
Finalist - Bram Stoker (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds - Peter Adam Salomon
Finalist - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1: Empress of Forever - Max Gladstone
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

1: Finder - Suzanne Palmer
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Five Midnights - Ann Dávila Cardinal
Finalist - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1: Goodnight Stranger - Miciah Bay Gault
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1: Here and Now and Then: A Novel - Mike Chen
Finalist - Compton Crook (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Here There Are Monsters - Amelinda Bérubé
Finalist - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1: Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: Infinite Detail - Tim Maughan
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Inspection - Josh Malerman
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Into the Ashes - Lee Murray
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Invisible Chains - Michelle Renee Lane
Finalist - Bram Stoker (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Jade War - Fonda Lee
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

1: Minor Mage - T. Kingfisher
Finalist - Lodestar (Hugo YA)
- Amazon

1: Nothing To See Here - Kevin Wilson
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1: Ode to Defiance - Marc Stiegler
Finalist - Prometheus
- Amazon

1: Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions - Henry Lien
Finalist - Andre Norton (YA)
- Amazon

1: Prisoner of Midnight - Barbara Hambly
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: Queen of the Conquered - Kacen Callender
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

1: Ruin's Wake - Patrick Edwards
Finalist - Prometheus
- Amazon

1: Rules for Vanishing - Kate Alice Marshall
Finalist - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe - Carlos Hernandez
Finalist - Andre Norton (YA)
- Amazon

1: Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: Speak No Evil - Liana Gardner
Finalist - Bram Stoker (YA)
- Amazon

1: Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: The Book of Flora - Meg Elison
Finalist - Otherwise
- Amazon

1: The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
Finalist - Otherwise
- Amazon

1: The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
Finalist - Locus (SF)
- Amazon

1: The Grand Dark - Richard Kadrey
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Green Man's Foe - Juliet E. McKenna
Finalist - BSFA
- Amazon

1: The Institute - Stephen King
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Iron Dragon's Mother - Michael Swanwick
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: The Last Astronaut - David Wellington
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
- Amazon

1: The Little Animals - Sarah Tolmie
Finalist - Philip K Dick
- Amazon

1: The Memory Police - Yoko ogawa
Finalist - World Fantasy
- Amazon

1: The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
Finalist - Arthur C. Clarke
- Amazon

1: The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Finalist - Lambda (SF/F/Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Pursuit of William Abbey - Claire North
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
Finalist - Locus (Fantasy)
- Amazon

1: The Toll - Cherie Priest
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher
Finalist - Locus (Horror)
- Amazon

1: The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

1: The Worst if Yet to Come - S. P. Miskowski
Finalist - Bram Stoker
- Amazon

1: Tinfoil Butterfly - Rachel Eve Moulton
Finalist - Shirley Jackson
- Amazon

1: Velocity Weapon - Megan E. O'Keefe
Finalist - Philip K Dick
- Amazon

1: War Girls - Tochi Onyebuchi
Finalist - Locus (YA)
- Amazon

1: Waste Tide - Chen Quifan
Finalist - Locus (Debut)
- Amazon

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