Robert Holdstock Award

The Robert Holdstock Award is the British Fantasy Society's award for best fantasy novel, named in honour of the author of Mythago Wood. It was created in 2012 when the Society split its single best novel category in two: the long-running August Derleth Award narrowed to best horror novel, and the new Holdstock Award took on best fantasy novel. The two are sibling awards, each with its own jury-selected shortlist, presented together at FantasyCon. The award is for novels only.

• 2025 - Masquerade by O. O. Sangoyomi
  • - Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
  • - The Green Man's War by Juliet E. McKenna
  • - Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
  • - A Shadow Over Haven by David Green
• 2024 - Talonsister by Jen Williams
  • - At Eternity's Gates by David Green
  • - Beyond Sundered Seas by David Green
  • - A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
  • - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
• 2023 - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
  • - The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller
  • - Cast Long Shadows by Cat Hellisen
  • - Glitterati by Oliver K. Langmead
  • - The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
  • - Path of War by David Green
• 2022 - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
  • - The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
  • - The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
  • - Sistersong by Lucy Holland
  • - This is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson
  • - The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
• 2021 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
  • - The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
  • - By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
  • - The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
  • - Dark River by Rym Kechacha
  • - Threading the Labyrinth by Tiffani Angus
• 2020 - The Bone Ships by RJ Barker
  • - The Migration by Helen Marshall
  • - The Poison Song by Jen Williams
  • - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• 2019 - The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
  • - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
  • - Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • - The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E. McKenna
  • - The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
  • - Priest of Bones by Peter McLean
• 2018 - The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
  • - Age of Assassins by RJ Barker
  • - The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
• 2017 - The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • - The High King's Vengeance by Steven Poore
  • - The Silver Tide by Jen Williams
  • - The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall
• 2016 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
  • - Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • - Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
  • - The Iron Ghost by Jen Williams
  • - Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
• 2015 - Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
  • - Breed by K. T. Davies
  • - City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • - A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
  • - The Moon King by Neil Williamson
  • - The Relic Guild by Edward Cox
• 2014 - A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
  • - Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman
  • - Blood and Feathers: Rebellion by Lou Morgan
  • - The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock
  • - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• 2013 - Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
  • - Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan
  • - The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
  • - Railsea by China Miéville
  • - Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
• 2012 - Among Others by Jo Walton
  • - The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
  • - A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin