British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award)
British Fantasy Society
Presented annually by the British Fantasy Society as part of the British Fantasy Awards, this category honors the best fantasy novel of the year, recognizing outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction as voted by society members and convention attendees.
2026
- Shortlisted
A Song of Legends Lost
M H Ayinde
- Shortlisted
Daughters of Nicnevin
Shona Kinsella
- Shortlisted
Grave Empire
Richard Swan
- Shortlisted
Magic, Maps, and Mischief
David Green
- Shortlisted
The Outcast Mage
Annabel Campbell
- Shortlisted
Upon a Starlit Tide
Kell Woods
2025
- Won
Masquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi
- Shortlisted
A Shadow Over Haven
David Green
- Shortlisted
Fathomfolk
Eliza Chan
- Shortlisted
Long Live Evil
Sarah Rees Brennan
- Shortlisted
The Green Man's War
Juliet E. McKenna
2024
- Won
Talonsister
Jen Williams
- Shortlisted
A Day of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon
- Shortlisted
At Eternity’s Gates
David Green
- Shortlisted
Beyond Sundered Seas
David Green
- Shortlisted
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Wole Talabi
2023
- Won
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
- Shortlisted
Cast Long Shadows
Cat Hellisen
- Shortlisted
Glitterati
Oliver K. Langmead
- Shortlisted
Path of War
David Green
- Shortlisted
The Bone Orchard
Sara A. Mueller
- Shortlisted
The Oleander Sword
Tasha Suri
2022
- Won
She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan
- Shortlisted
Sistersong
Lucy Holland
- Shortlisted
The Black Coast
Mike Brooks
- Shortlisted
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
- Shortlisted
The Unbroken
C. L. Clark
- Shortlisted
This is Our Undoing
Lorraine Wilson
2021
- Won
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
- Shortlisted
By Force Alone
Lavie Tidhar
- Shortlisted
Dark River
Rym Kechacha
- Shortlisted
The Bone Shard Daughter
Andrea Stewart
- Shortlisted
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
- Shortlisted
Threading the Labyrinth
Tiffani Angus
2020
- Won
The Bone Ships
R. J. Barker
- Shortlisted
The Migration
Helen Marshall
- Shortlisted
The Poison Song
Jen Williams
- Shortlisted
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
2019
- Won
The Bitter Twins
Jen Williams
- Shortlisted
Empire of Sand
Tasha Suri
- Shortlisted
Foundryside
Robert Jackson Bennett
- Shortlisted
Priest of Bones
Peter McLean
- Shortlisted
The Green Man's Heir
Juliet E. McKenna
- Shortlisted
The Loosening Skin
Aliya Whiteley
2018
- Won
The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams
- Shortlisted
Age of Assassins
R. J. Barker
- Shortlisted
The Court of Broken Knives
Anna Smith Spark
- Shortlisted
Under the Pendulum Sun
Jeannette Ng
2017
- Won
The Tiger and the Wolf
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Shortlisted
The High King's Vengeance
Steven Poore
- Shortlisted
The Silver Tide
Jen Williams
- Shortlisted
The Summer Goddess
Joanne Hall
2016
- Won
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
- Shortlisted
Guns of the Dawn
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Shortlisted
Half a War
Joe Abercrombie
- Shortlisted
Signal to Noise
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Shortlisted
Sorcerer to the Crown
Zen Cho
- Shortlisted
The Iron Ghost
Jen Williams
2015
- Won
Cuckoo Song
Frances Hardinge
- Shortlisted
A Man Lies Dreaming
Lavie Tidhar
- Shortlisted
Breed
K. T. Davies
- Shortlisted
City of Stairs
Robert Jackson Bennett
- Shortlisted
The Moon King
Neil Williamson
- Shortlisted
The Relic Guild
Edward Cox
2014
- Won
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
- Shortlisted
Between Two Thorns
Emma Newman
- Shortlisted
Blood and Feathers: Rebellion
Lou Morgan
- Shortlisted
The Glass Republic
Tom Pollock
- Shortlisted
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
2013
- Won
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Graham Joyce
- Shortlisted
Blood and Feathers
Lou Morgan
- Shortlisted
Railsea
China Miéville
- Shortlisted
Red Country
Joe Abercrombie
- Shortlisted
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Margo Lanagan
2012
- Won
Among Others
Jo Walton