List of winners and nominees for the Aurora Award for Best Novel

The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Novel was first awarded in 1982 as the Award for Best Outstanding Work and is two awards, one granted to an English-language work and one to a French-language work. Until 1989 it was dedicated to any works, including non-novel length works. It became a dedicated category in 1989 as the Award for Best Long Form (French: Meilleur Livre). It became the Award for Best Novel (French: Meilleur Roman) in 2011, when the Prix Aurora and Prix Boreal combined. No winner was awarded in 1983 and 1986, but shortlists were created.

Robert J. Sawyer has won the English-language award the most times (eight times), and Élisabeth Vonarburg has won the French-language award the most times (seven times).

English-language Award

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year	Author(s)	Work	Publisher/Publication	Ref.
1982	Phyllis Gotlieb*	Judgement of Dragons	Berkley	[1]
1982	John Robert Colombo (editor)	Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic set in Canada	Hounslow	[1]
1982	Charles R. Saunders	Imaro	DAW	[1]
1982	Lesley Choyce & John Bell (editors)	Visions from the Edge	Pottersfield	[1]
1983	Michael G. Coney	Cat Karina	Ace	[2]
1983	Crawford Killian	Eyas	Bantam Spectra	[2]
1983	Pauline Gedge	Stargate	Macmillan	[2]
1983	Andrew Weiner	Station Gehanna	F&SF (Apr. 1982)	[2]
1983	John Robert Colombo	Wendigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction	Prairie	[2]
1985	Eileen Kernaghan	Songs from the Drowned Lands	Ace	[3]
1985	Michael G. Coney	The Celestial Steam Locomotive	HMH	[3]
1985	Spider Robinson	Melancholy Elephants	Analog (Jun. 1982)	[3]
1985	William Gibson	Neuromancer	Ace	[3]
1986	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	McClelland & Stewart	[4]
1986	Phyllis Gotlieb	The Kingdom of the Cats	Ace	[4]
1986	Charles de Lint	Mulengro	Ace	[4]
1987	Guy Gavriel Kay	The Wandering Fire	Collins	[5]
1987	Robert Charles Wilson	A Hidden Place	Bantam Spectra	[5]
1987	Crawford Killian	Lifter	Ace	[5]
1987	Charles de Lint	Yarrow (novel)	Ace	[5]
1988	Charles de Lint	Jack, the Giant Killer	Ace	[6]
1988	Guy Gavriel Kay	The Darkest Road	Collins	[6]
1988	Robert Charles Wilson	Memory Wire	Bantam Spectra	[6]
1988	Spider Robinson	Time Pressure	HRW	[6]
1989	William Gibson	Mona Lisa Overdrive	Gollancz	[7]
1989	Candas Jane Dorsey	Machine Sex and Other Stories	Porcépic	[7]
1989	Robert Charles Wilson	Memory Wire	Bantam Spectra	[7]
1989	Spider Robinson	Time Pressure	HRW	[7]
1989	Élisabeth Vonarburg	The Silent City	Porcépic	[7]
1990	Dave Duncan	West of January	Del Rey	[8]
1990	Terence M. Green	Barking Dogs	St. Martin's	[8]
1990	Tanya Huff	Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light	DAW	[8]
1990	Robert Charles Wilson	Gypsies	Bantam	[8]
1990	Crawford Killian	Rogue Emperor	Del Rey	[8]
1990	Eileen Kernaghan	The Sarsen Witch	Ace	[8]
1991	Guy Gavriel Kay	Tigana	Viking	[9]
1991	Tanya Huff	Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light	DAW	[9]
1991	Robert Charles Wilson	Gypsies	Bantam	[9]
1991	Robert J. Sawyer	Golden Fleece	Warner	[9]
1991	Michael G. Coney	King of the Scepter'd Isle	Dutton	[9]
1992	Robert J. Sawyer	Golden Fleece	Warner	[10]
1992	Tanya Huff	Blood Price	DAW	[10]
1992	William Gibson & Bruce Sterling	The Difference Engine	Gollancz	[10]
1992	Robert Charles Wilson	The Divide	Doubleday	[10]
1992	Spider Robinson	Kill the Editor	Axolotl	[10]
1992	Charles de Lint	The Little Country	Morrow	[10]
1993	Sean Stewart	Passion Play	Beach Holme	[11]
1993	Tanya Huff	Blood Trail	DAW	[11]
1993	Terence M. Green	Children of the Rainbow	McClelland & Stewart	[11]
1993	Robert J. Sawyer	Far-Seer	Ace	[11]
1993	Guy Gavriel Kay	A Song for Arbonne	Viking	[11]
1994	Sean Stewart	Nobody's Son	Macmillan	[12]
1994	Robert J. Sawyer	Far-Seer	Ace	[12]
1994	Guy Gavriel Kay	A Song for Arbonne	Viking	[12]
1994	William Gibson	Virtual Light	Seal	[12]
1995	William Gibson	Virtual Light	Seal	[13]
1995	Spider Robinson	Callahan's Touch	Ace	[13]
1995	Robert J. Sawyer	End of an Era	Ace	[13]
1995	Robert Charles Wilson	Mysterium	Bantam Spectra	[13]
1995	Nancy Kilpatrick	Near Death	Pocket	[13]
1996	Robert J. Sawyer	The Terminal Experiment	Harper Prism	[14]
1996	Dave Duncan	The Cursed	Del Rey	[14]
1996	Guy Gavriel Kay	The Lions of Al-Rassan	Viking	[14]
1996	Robert Charles Wilson	Mysterium	Bantam Spectra	[14]
1996	Sean Stewart	Resurrection Man	Ace	[14]
1996	Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson	Star Mind	Ace	[14]
1997	Robert J. Sawyer	Starplex	Ace	[15]
1997	Nancy Kilpatrick	Child of the Night	Raven	[15]
1997	Tanya Huff	No Quarter	DAW	[15]
1997	Sean Stewart	Resurrection Man	Ace	[15]
1997	Terence M. Green	Shadow of Ashland	Tor	[15]
1998	Candas Jane Dorsey	Black Wine	Tor	[16]
1998	Robert J. Sawyer	Frameshift	Tor	[16]
1998	Robert J. Sawyer	Illegal Alien	Ace	[16]
1998	Terence M. Green	Shadow of Ashland	Tor	[16]
1998	Charles de Lint	Trader	Tor	[16]
1999	Robert Charles Wilson	Darwinia	Tor	[17]
1999	Nancy Kilpatrick	Dracul: An Eternal Love Story	Lucard	[17]
1999	Robert J. Sawyer	Factoring Humanity	Tor	[17]
1999	Phyllis Gotlieb	Flesh and Gold	Tor	[17]
1999	Guy Gavriel Kay	Sailing to Sarantium	Viking	[17]
1999	Guy Gavriel Kay	Someplace to be Flying	Tor	[17]
2000	Robert J. Sawyer	Flashforward	Tor	[18]
2000	Julie E. Czerneda	Beholder's Eye	DAW	[18]
2000	Robert Charles Wilson	Bios	Tor	[18]
2000	Nalo Hopkinson	Brown Girl in the Ring	Warner Aspect	[18]
2000	Edo van Belkom	Death Drives a Semi	Quarry	[18]
2000	Peter Watts	Starfish	Tor	[18]
2001	Eileen Kernaghan	The Snow Queen	Thistledown	[19]
2001	Robert J. Sawyer	Calculating God	Tor	[19]
2001	Julie E. Czerneda	Changing Vision	DAW	[19]
2001	James Alan Gardner	Hunted	Eos	[19]
2001	Lisa Smedman	The Playback War	Warner Aspect	[19]
2002	Julie E. Czerneda	In the Company of Others	DAW	[20]
2002	James Alan Gardner	Ascending	Eos	[20]
2002	Robert Charles Wilson	The Chronoliths	Tor	[20]
2002	Peter Watts	Maelstrom	Tor	[20]
2002	Edo van Belkom	Teeth	Meisha Merlin	[20]
2003	Karl Schroeder	Permanence	Tor	[21]
2003	Robert J. Sawyer	Hominids	Tor	[21]
2003	Edo van Belkom	Martyrs	DIG	[21]
2003	Julie E. Czerneda	To Trade the Stars	DAW	[21]
2003	Karin Lowachee	Warchild	DAW	[21]
2004	Robert Charles Wilson	Blind Lake	Tor	[22]
2004	Karin Lowachee	Burndive	Warner Aspect	[22]
2004	Julie E. Czerneda	Hidden in Sight	DAW	[22]
2004	Robert J. Sawyer	Humans	Tor	[22]
2004	Edo van Belkom	Scream Queen	Pinnacle	[22]
2004	Caitlin Sweet	A Telling of Stars	Penguin	[22]
2005	Edo van Belkom	Wolf Pack	Tundra	[23]
2005	Eileen Kernaghan	The Alchemist's Daughter	Thistledown	[23]
2005	Matthew Hughes	Black Brillion	Tor	[23]
2005	Stephanie Bedwell-Grime	Fallen Angel	Telos	[23]
2005	James Alan Gardner	Radiant	Eos	[23]
2005	Julie E. Czerneda	Survival	DAW	[23]
2006	Karin Lowachee	Cagebird	Warner Aspect	[24]
2006	Edo van Belkom	Lone Wolf	Tundra	[24]
2006	Julie E. Czerneda	Migration	DAW	[24]
2006	Robert J. Sawyer	Mindscan	Tor	[24]
2006	Caitlin Sweet	Silences of Home	Penguin	[24]
2006	Robert Charles Wilson	Spin	Tor	[24]
2007	Dave Duncan	Children of Chaos	Tor	[25]
2007	Peter Watts	Blindsight	Tor	[25]
2007	Julie E. Czerneda	Regeneration	DAW	[25]
2007	Lynda Williams	Righteous Anger	Edge	[25]
2007	Tanya Huff	Smoke and Ashes	DAW	[25]
2007	Karl Schroeder	Sun of Suns	Tor	[25]
2008	Nalo Hopkinson	The New Moon’s Arms	Warner	[26]
2008	Denys Bridger	As Fate Decrees	Edge	[26]
2008	Edo van Belkom	Cry Wolf	McClelland & Stewart/Tundra	[26]
2008	Derwin Mak	The Moon Under Her Feet	Windstorm	[26]
2008	Robert J. Sawyer	Rollback	Tor	[26]
2009	Edward Willett	Marseguro	DAW	[27]
2009	Ursula Pflug	After the Fires	Tightrope	[27]
2009	Hayden Trenholm	Defending Diana	Bundoran	[27]
2009	Robert J. Sawyer	Identity Theft and Other Stories	Red Deer	[27]
2009	Douglas Smith	Impossibilia	PS	[27]
2010	Robert J. Sawyer	Wake	Penguin	[28]
2010	Leslie Carmichael	The Amulet of Amon-Ra	CBAY	[28]
2010	Barbara Galler-Smith & Josh Langston	Druids	Edge	[28]
2010	Hayden Trenholm	Steel Whispers	Bundoran	[28]
2010	Edward Willett	Terra Insegura	DAW Books	[28]
2011	Robert J. Sawyer	Watch	Penguin	[29]
2011	Craig Russell	Black Bottle Man	Great Plains	[29]
2011	Marie Bilodeau	Destiny’s Blood	Dragon Moon	[29]
2011	Hayden Trenholm	Stealing Home	Bundoran	[29]
2011	Guy Gavriel Kay	Under Heaven	Viking	[29]
2012	Robert J. Sawyer	Wonder	Penguin	[30]
2012	Michael Rowe	Enter, Night	ChiZine	[30]
2012	David Nickle	Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism	ChiZine	[30]
2012	Derryl Murphy	Napier’s Bones	ChiZine	[30]
2012	Caitlin Sweet	The Pattern Scars	ChiZine	[30]
2012	Ryan Oakley	Technicolor Ultra Mall	Edge	[30]
2013	Tanya Huff	The Silvered	DAW	[31]
2013	Marie Bilodeau	Destiny’s Fall	Dragon Moon	[31]
2013	Karen Dudley	Food for the Gods	Ravenstone	[31]
2013	Lynda Williams	Healer's Sword	Edge	[31]
2013	Chadwick Ginther	Thunder Road	Ravenstone	[31]
2013	Robert J. Sawyer	Triggers	Penguin	[31]
2014	Julie E. Czerneda	A Turn of Light	DAW	[32]
2014	Robert J. Sawyer	Red Planet Blues	Penguin	[32]
2014	Guy Gavriel Kay	River of Stars	Viking	[32]
2014	Susan MacGregor	The Tatooed Witch	Five Rivers	[32]
2014	Chadwick Ginther	Tombstone Blues	Ravenstone	[32]
2015	Julie E. Czerneda	A Play of Shadow	DAW	[33]
2015	Peter Watts	Echopraxia	Tor	[33]
2015	Tanya Huff	The Future Falls	DAW	[33]
2015	Jo Walton	My Real Children	Tor	[33]
2015	William Gibson	The Peripheral	Penguin	[33]
2016	A. M. Dellamonica	A Daughter of No Nation	Tor	[34]
2016	Ryan T. McFadden	Cursed: Black Swan	Dragon Moon	[34]
2016	E. C. Bell	Drowning in Amber	Tyche	[34]
2016	Randy McCharles	Much Ado About Macbeth	Tyche	[34]
2016	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Signal to Noise	Solaris	[34]
2016	Chadwick Ginther	Too Far Gone	Ravenstone	[34]
2017	Robert J. Sawyer	Quantum Night	Penguin	[35]
2017	Guy Gavriel Kay	Children of Earth and Sky	Viking	[35]
2017	Madeline Ashby	Company Town	Tor	[35]
2017	Gerald Brandt	The Courier	DAW	[35]
2017	A. M. Dellamonica	The Nature of a Pirate	Tor	[35]
2017	Brent Nichols	Stars Like Cold Fire	Bundoran	[35]
2018	Fonda Lee	Jade City	Orbit	[36]
2018	James Alan Gardner	All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault	Tor	[36]
2018	Brent Nichols	Light of a Distant Sun	Bundoran	[36]
2018	Gerald Brendt	The Rebel	DAW	[36]
2018	Costi Gurgu	RecipeArium	White Cat	[36]
2018	Julie E. Czerneda	To Guard Against the Dark	DAW	[36]
2019	Kate Heartfield	Armed in Her Fashion	ChiZine Publications	[37]
2019	Chadwick Ginther	Graveyard Mind	ChiZine Publications	[37]
2019	Craig DiLouie	One of Us	Orbit	[37]
2019	James Alan Gardner	They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded	Tor	[37]
2019	Derek Künsken	The Quantum Magician	Solaris Books and Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[37]
2019	C. L. Polk	Witchmark	Tor.com Publications	[37]

Best of the Decade

A special award was handed out in 2017 for the best novel or series of the 2000s. If continued, this award will be given out once every 10 years.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year	Author(s)	Work	Publisher/Publication	Ref.
2017	Robert J. Sawyer*	The Neanderthal Parallax	Tor	[35]
2017	Robert Charles Wilson	Blind Lake	Tor	[35]
2017	William Gibson	Blue Ant	Berkley	[35]
2017	Steven Erikson	Malazan Book of the Fallen	Tor	[35]
2017	Charles de Lint	The Onion Girl	Tor	[35]
2017	Guy Gavriel Kay	Under Heaven	Viking	[35]

French-language Award

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year	Author(s)	Work	Publisher/Publication	Ref.
1989	Charles Montpetit	Temps mort (Time Out)	Paulines	[38]
1990	Jacques Brossard	Les Années d'apprentissage (Years of Learning)	Leméac	[38]
1991	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Histoire de la princesse et du dragon (Story of the Princess and the Dragon)	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1992	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Ailleurs et au Japon (Elsewhere and in Japan)	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1993	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Chroniques du Pays des Mères (The Maerlande Chronicles)	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1994	Daniel Sernine	Chronoreg	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1995	Joël Champetier	La Mémoire du lac (Memory of the Lake)	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1996	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Les Voyageurs malgré eux (Travellers, Despite Themselves)	Québec/Amérique	[38]
1997	Yves Meynard	La rose du desert (The Desert Rose)	Unknown	[38]
1998	Jean-Pierre Guillet	L'odyssée du Penelope (The Odyssey of the Penelope)	Éditions Héritage	[38]
1999	Alain Bergeron	Corps-machines et rêves d'anges (Body-Machines and the Dreams of Angels)	Vent D'Ouest	[38]
2000	Francine Pelletier	Samiva de Frée	Alire	[38]
2001	Jean-Louis Trudel	Demain, les étoiles (Tomorrow, the Stars)	Pierre Tisseyre	[38]
2002	Jean-Louis Trudel	Les Transfigurés du Centaure (The Transfigured Centaurs)	Médiaspaul	[38]
2003	Jean-Louis Trudel	Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (The Return of Fomalhaut)	Médiaspaul	[38]
2004	Alain Bergeron	Phaos	Alire	[38]
2005	Michèle Laframboise	Les Mémoires de l'arc (Memories of the Arc)	Médiaspaul	[38]
2006	Dominic Bellavance	Alégracia et le serpent d'argent (Alégracia and the Silver Snake)	Les Six Brumes	[38]
2007	Élisabeth Vonarburg	La Princesse de vengeance (The Vengeance Princess)	Alire	[38]
2008	Diane Boudreau	Cimetière du musée (Museum Cemetery)	Unknown	[38]
2009	Michèle Laframboise	Les Vents de Tammerlan (The Winds of Tammerlan)	Médiaspaul	[38]
2010	Laurent McAllister	Suprématie (Supremacy)	Bragelonne	[38]
2011	Héloïse Côté	La Tueuse de dragons (The Dragon Slayer)	Alire	[38]
2012	Éric Gauthier	Montréel	Alire	[38]
2013	Ariane Gélinas	Transtaïga	Unknown	[38]
2014	Sébastien Chartrand	L'Ensorceleuse de Pointe-Lévy (The Enchantress of Pointe-Lévy)	Alire	[38]
2014	Ariane Gélinas	L'île aux naufrages (The Island of Shipwrecks)	Marchand de Feuilles	[39]
2014	Patrick Senécal	Ce qui se passe dans la cave reste dans la cave (What Happens in the Cave Remains in the Cave)	Alire	[39]
2015	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Hôtel Olympia (Hotel Olympia)	Alire	[38]
2015	Marilou Addison	Anita	Mortagne	[40]
2015	Ariane Gélinas	Escalana	Marchand de Feuilles	[40]
2015	Frédéric Raymond	Jardin de chair (Garden of Flesh)	Les Six Brumes	[40]
2015	Patrick Senécal	Grande liquidation (Grand Liquidation)	Alire	[40]
2015	Daniel Sernine	Les Îles du ciel (Islands of the Sky)	Soulières	[40]
2016	Philippe-Aubert Côté	Le Jeu du Démiurge (The Demiurge Game)	Alire	[38]
2016	Frédérick Durand	Au rendez-vous des courtisans glacés (A Rendezvous of Icy Courtesans)	Les Six Brumes	[41]
2016	Frédérick Durand	Quand s'éteindra la dernière chandelle (When the Last Candle is Exhausted)	Black Coat	[41]
2016	Éric Gauthier	Le Grande mort de mononc' Morbide (The Grand Death of Mononc Morbid)	Alire	[41]
2016	Yves Meynard	Les Marches de la lune morte (Steps on the Dead Moon)	Alire	[41]
2017	Ariane Gélinas*	Les Cendres de Sedna (The Ashes of Cedna)	Alire	[42]
2017	Sébastien Chartrand	Le sorcier de l’Île d’Orléans (The Sorcerer of Orléans Island)	Alire	[42]
2017	Héloïse Côté	Les monstres intérieurs (Indoor Monsters)	Alire	[42]
2017	Martine Desjardins	La chambre verte (Green Room)	Alto	[42]
2017	Frédéric Raymond	L’arbre maléfique(The Evil Tree)	Éditions du Phoenix	[42]
2018	Karoline Georges*	De synthèse (Of Synthesis)	Alto	[43]
2018	David Calvo	Toxoplasma	La Volte	[44]
2018	Yvan Godbout	Hansel et Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)	AdA	[44]
2018	Michèle Laframboise	La ruche (The Hive)	Les Six Brumes	[44]
2018	Matthieu Villeneuve	Borealium tremens	La Peuplade	[44]
2019	Élisabeth Vonarburg	Les Pierres et les Roses. Tome 1, 2 et 3	Alire	[45]
2019	Yves Meynard	Chrysanthe t.1 La princess perdue	Alire	[45]
2019	Simon Rousseau	La Reine des Neiges	ADA	[45]
2019	Stéphanie Sylvain	Le roi des ombres	Numeriklivres	[45]
2019	Christiane Vadnais	Faunes	ALTO	[45]

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