The Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel is a literary award given annually by Locus Magazine as part of their Locus Awards.
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
4 stars
For Twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen …
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4 stars
The storm was coming....
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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The Scar by China Miéville (Bas-Lag, #2)
4 stars
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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Iron Council by China Miéville
4 stars
Iron Council (2004) is a weird fantasy novel by the British writer China Miéville, his third set in the Bas-Lag …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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4 stars
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city's labyrinth of streets …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (33))
4 stars
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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5 stars
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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The City & the City by China Miéville
5 stars
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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4 stars
Kraken is a fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5.)
4 stars
A Dance with Dragons is the fifth novel of seven planned in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #4)
For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
3 stars
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
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Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
