Novel

• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
• Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
• The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)

Novella

• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
• DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)

Novelette

• Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
• “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
• The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)

Short Fiction

• “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
• “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
• “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
• “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
• “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Single-Author Collection

• Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
• Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)

Edited Anthology

• Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
• Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)

Winners will be announced on July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burlington MA. For more information, see the award website.

• Dusk, Robbie Arnott (Astra House US; Chatto & Windus UK; Picador Australia)
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon US; Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien (Norton US; Granta UK)

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
• Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando US; Manilla UK)
• Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor Nightfire US; Titan UK)
• The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley US; Tor Nightfire UK)
• Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic UK)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga US; Titan UK)

Best Novella

• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
• Fate’s Bane, C.L. Clark (Tordotcom)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)
• “Walking A Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)

Best Short Fiction

• “Down Street”, James Bennett (Blood in the Bricks)
• “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds, narrated by Eliza Chan (PodCastle 7/29/25)
• “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 5/1/25)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)

Best Collection

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• Wolf’s Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
• Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
• Who Will You Save, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria)

Best Anthology

• Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, J.S. Fields, Heather Tracy & William C. Tracy, eds. (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
• This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
• Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon

Best Non-Fiction

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)
• Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
• The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)
• Britain’s Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Mythaxis
• Phantasmagoria
• Remains
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Kelly Chong
• Vincent Chong
• Jenni Coutts
• Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

Best Audio (Fiction)

• The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• The Folklore Podcast
• Uncanny

Best Newcomer

• M.H. Ayinde for A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
• Annabel Campbell for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)
• MK Hardy for The Needfire (Solaris)
• Ana Sun for Futures to Live By (NewCon)

• King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• All This Could Be Yours, Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

• Mask of the Deer Woman, Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)

Best Juvenile/YA Novel

• Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, Chris Chan (Level Best)
• Miles in Time, Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf)
• The Scammer, Tiffany D. Jackson (Quill Tree)
• Death in the Cards, Mia P. Manansala (Delacorte)

Best Short Story

• “Six-Armed Robbery”, Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier (Donna Andrews Presents Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Humorous)
• “Hollywood Prometheus”, Christa Faust (Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons)
• “The Skies Are Red”, Richie Narvaez (On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology)

Best Anthology or Collection

• Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons,
  John Copenhaver & Salem West, eds. (Bywater)
• On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology,
  Curtis Ippolito et al. (Rock and a Hard Place)

Critical/Non-Fiction

• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story, Pagan
  Kennedy (Vintage)

Other awards categories include Best Paperback Original/E-Book/ Audiobook Original Novel. Winners will be announced during Bouchercon, to be held October 21-25, 2026 in Calgary, Canada. For more information, including complete lists of nominees, see the Bouchercon website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)

• Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Tovaangar, Céline Minard (Rivages)
• Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Le Bélial’)
• Une vie de saint, Christophie Siébert (Au Diable Vauvert)

Foreign Novel

• WINNER: Le Livre des passages [Crossings], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)

• Le Chant des noms [The Naming Song], Jedediah Berry, tr. Jonathan Baillehache (Hachette Heroes)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)
• Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)
• Le Cœur des Nagas [The Heart of the Nhaga], Young-Do Lee, tr. Marion Gilbert (Hachette Heroes)
• La Reine sirène [Siren Queen], Nghi Vo, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

• WINNER: “L’Âge des tempêtes”, Thomas Day (Bifrost 117)

• “Fiancées du silence”, Sabrina Calvo (Soleil·s: 12 fictions héliotopiques)
• “Les Noueurs”, Chloé Chevalier (Utopiales 2025)
• Épicènes, Thierry Crouzet (À la flamme)
• “La Femme inachevée”, Claude Ecken (Bifrost 120)

Foreign Short Fiction

• WINNER: La Migration annuelle des nuages [The Annual Migration of Clouds] et Ce qui se dit par la montagne [We Speak Through the Mountain], Premee Mohamed, tr. Marie Surgers (L’Atalante)

• Un lieu ensoleillé pour personnes sombres [A Sunny Place for Shady People], Mariana Enriquez, tr. Anne Plantagenet (Le Sous-Sol)
• La Vie secrète des robots [The Secret Life of Bots], Suzanne Palmer, tr. Pierre-Paul Durastanti (Le Bélial’)
• Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

French YA Novel

• WINNER: Station Symbiose, Noëmie Lemos (Critic)

• Les Âmes de l’ouest, Elie S. Green (Gulf Stream)
• L’énigme de Camford, Ariel Holzl (Slalom)
• L’Institut du nouveau lendemain, Chloé Vollmer-Lo (Nathan)

Foreign YA Novel

• WINNER: Le Voleur [The Thief] et La reine d’Attolie [The Queen of Attolia], Megan Whalen Turner, tr. Yoko Lacour (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)

• Le Miroir sombre [The Dark Mirror], Samantha Shannon, tr. Benjamin Kuntzer (De Saxus)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

• WINNER: Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)

• Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Le Livre des passages [Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)
• House of windows [House of Windows], John Langan, tr. Thibaud Eliroff (J’ai Lu)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

• WINNER: Yvan Belikov for the art of the five-book The Bone Season series, Samantha Shannon (De Saxus)

• Nicolas Caminade for the cover art of the French editions of several books by J.R.R. Tolkien (Pocket)
• Morgane Caussarieu for the cover and interior art of Festin de larmes, Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Thibault Daumain for the cover and interior art of Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Anouck Faure for the cover art of Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Petites histoires de la science-fiction française, Alain Grousset (ActuSF)

• L’Encyclopédie H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Bragelonne)

Prix Spécial

• WINNER: Demain commence hier, George W. Barlow (Flatland)

• Derrière le grillage 1, Guillaume Chamanadjian, Sébastien Juillard & luvan (Scylla)

• 1st Place: “Terracotta Warrior”, Y.M. Pang
• 2nd Place: “Starlight Bathing”, Vivian McInerny
• 3rd Place: “The Planet that Learned our Fear”, Ayesha Mansoor
• Youth Award: “Faster Than Light”, Madame Reeds-A-Lot
• Honorable Mention: “The Witch of Dark Matter”, Kristin5689
• Honorable Mention: “The River Remembers”, Hashim Quraishi

Best German SF Novel

• WINNER: Lyneham, Nils Westerboer (Klett-Cotta)

• We Burn the Sun, Anika Beer (Piper)
• The Deniables: Gestohlene Vergangeheit, Stefan Cernohuby (Leseratten)
• Skyrmionen oder: A Fucking Army, Dietmar Dath (Matthes & Seitz)
• Der Himmel wird zur See, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
• Ein Übermaß von Welt, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
• Thanatopia, Tom Hillenbrand (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
• Im Kosmischen Bermuda-Dreieck / Wenn Topsid fällt, Kai Hirdt (VPM)
• Denial of Service, Aiki Mira (Fischer Tor)
• Mars Genesis: Die Ietzte Reise, Brandon Q. Morris (Fischer Tor)

Best German SF Story 

• WINNER: “Nano Godt”, Yvonne Tunnat (Weltenportal 6)

• “Hope”, Moritz Boltz (Exodus 49)
• “Hochzeitsglocken”, Antares Bottlinger (Leben in Scherben)
• “Sabotage”, Patricia Eckermann (Andymonaden)
• “Smarte Tränen”, Christian Endres (c’t 18/2025)
• “Die Flucht der Saugroboter”, Erik Hauser (Zwielicht 22)
• “Ausreißende Sterne”, Aiki Mira (Andymonaden)
• “Es gibt keinen besseren Ort als die Pein”, Maria Orlovskaya (Weltenportal 6)
• “Blumen für Lisa-9”, Uwe Post (Exodus 49)
• “Kinderladen”, Jol Rosenberg (Queer*Welten 15)
• “Briefe an die DNA”, Annika Rothenicher & Maximilian Wust (Tales of Science II)
• “Hypostasis”, Michaela Schrimpf & Maximilian Wust (Weltenportal 6)
• “Geschichten im Sand”, Nele Sickel (Trümmer am Milchstraßenrand)

Best Non-German SF Work translated, first time

• WINNER: Und Hoffentlich zu lernen [To Be Taught If Fortunate], Becky Chambers (Carcosa)

• Das Ministerium der Zeit [The Ministry of Time], Kaliane Bradley (Penguin)
• Arborealität [Arboreality], Rebecca Campbell (Carcosa)
• Dr. No, Percival Everett (Hanser)
• Wie die Karnickel [The Constant Rabbit], Jasper Fforde (Satyr)
• Wir haben keine Antimemetik-Abteilung [There is No Antimemetics Division], Sam Hughes (Heyne)
• Toward Eternity [Toward Eternity], Anton Hur (S. Fischer)
• “Das Jahr ohne Sonnenschein [The Year Without Sunshine]”, Naomi Kritzer (Ihr Körper, das Schiff)
• Was wir wissen können [What We Can Know], Ian McEwan (Diogenes)
• Das Schiff der flüsternden Träume [Eversion], Alastair Reynolds (Heyne)
• All Better Now, Neal Shusterman (Sauerländer)

Best Translation of SF into German

• WINNER: Der Tag vor der Revolution [The Day Before the Revolution], Ursula K. Le Guin, tr. Karen Nölle (Fischer Tor)

• Das Ministerium der Zeit [The Ministry of Time], Kaliane Bradley, tr. Sophie Zeitz (Penguin)
• Arborealität [Arboreality], Rebecca Campbell, tr. Barbara Slawig (Carcosa)
• Und Hoffentlich zu lernen [To Be Taught If Fortunate], Becky Chambers, tr. Karin Will (Carcosa)
• Dr. No, Percival Everett, tr. Nikolaus Stingl (Hanser)
• Ihr Körper, das Schiff [Her Body, the Ship], Yvonne Tunnat & Chriss Witt, eds., tr. Sharyn Wegmann (A7L Books)

Best SF Cover Art or Illustration related to a German edition

• WINNER: Jan Hoffman for the cover of phantastisch! 98, Klaus Bollhöfener, ed. (Atlantis)

• Lothar Bauer for the cover art of Delter, Frank Lauenroth (p. machinery)
• Cuculum AKA Axel Kuckuk for the cover art of Exodus 49, Hans Jürgen Kugler, René Moreau & Heinz Wipperfürth, eds. (Selbstverlag)
• Mario Franke for the interior art of “Innovation mit Nebenwirkungen”, Hubert Hug & Michael Schmidt (Tales of Science II)
• Detlef Klewer for the cover art of Weltenportal 6, Christoph Grimm & Sarah Lutter, eds. (Selbstverlag)
• Günter Puschmann for the cover art of SOL 117, Christina Hacker, ed. (PRFZ)

Best German Non-fiction Texts related to SF

• WINNER: Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction 1933–1945, Wolfgang Both, Klaus Geus, Horst Illmer & Klaus Scheffler (Memoranda)

• “Wer sind Sie? Und wenn ja, wie viele? Über welche Figuren schreiben wir in der deutschen Science Fiction?”, Jamie-Lee Campbell (!Time Machine 9)
• Picknick auf der Autobahn: Wie wir in Zukunft unterwegs sein werden, Katja Diehl & Mario Sixtus (S. Fischer)
• Nerd Girl Magic: Fandom aus marginalisierter Perspektive, Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner (Verbrecher)
• Science Fiction Futurologien: Die spannungsreiche Beziehung zwischen Zukunftsforschung und Spekulativer Literatur, Julia Grillmayr (Transcript)
• Zukunft ohne Angst: Wie Anti-Dystopien neue Perspektiven eröffnen oekom, Isabella Hermann (Oekom)
• “Utopische Körper: Africanfuturism und Queer*SF als utopische Praxis”, Aiki Mira (Das Science Fiction Jahr 2025)
• “Kann Phantastik progressiv sein, wenn sie keine Infragestellung des Status Quo beinhaltet?”, Jol Rosenberg (Weltenportal 6)
• Rückblick auf das lichte Morgen: Essays zu SF und Phantastik in der DDR, Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller (Memoranda)
• Jules Verne und die Entdeckung der Meeresforschung, Bettina Wurche (Hirnkost)

Special Achievement Award for SF activities

• WINNER: Olaf Brill & Michael Vogt

• Galax Acheronian, Stefan Junghanns & Achim Stößer
• Dirk Berger
• Katja Diehl & Mario Sixtus
• Brandon Q. Morris, Yvonne Tunnat & Chris Witt
• Michael Wehren

Special Achievement Award for Long-Term Activities

• WINNER: Klaus Bollhöfener and the team of phantastisch!

• benSwerk / S. Beneš
• Christoph Grimm & Sarah Lutter
• Birgit Fischer
• Michael Marrak
• Ingrid Pointecker
• Thomas Recktenwald
• Peter Schmitz
• Friedhelm Schneidewind
• Rainer Schorm
• Jörg Weigand

Special Achievement Award: Critical, Committed, Intersectional

• WINNER: Jamie-Lee Campbell

• Aşkın-Hayat Doğan
• Patricia Eckermann
• Florence Gaub
• Ingrid Pointecker
• Michael Wehren
• The Phantastik-Bestenliste team and jury

Winners were selected by a jury and honored in a ceremony on July 4, 2026 at Metropol Con Berlin in Germany. For more information, see the official website.

• WINNER: Boleyn Traitor, Philippa Gregory (HarperFiction)

• Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th Estate)
• The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Crime & Thriller

• WINNER: A Case of Mice and Murder, Sally Smith (Raven)

• The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown (Bantam)
• Death at the White Hart, Chris Chibnall (Pamela Dorman)
• The God of the Woods, Liz Moore (The Borough)

Children’s Fiction

• WINNER: Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

• Fearless, Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• Skandar and the Spirit War, A.F. Steadman (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• A Language of Dragons, S.F. Williamson (HarperCollins Children’s)

Audiobook Fiction

• WINNER: Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Weruche Opia, Nnei Opia Clark & Diana Yekinni (WF Howes)

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, adapted by Lulu Raczka, narrated by Marisa Abela, Glenn Close, Harris Dickinson, Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Bill Nighy (Audible Original)
• The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman, narrated by Michael Sheen (Penguin Audio)

There were also categories for Romantic Fiction, Debut Fiction, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction: Narrative, and more.

The British Book Awards, also called the Nibbies, “celebrates the intimate connection between the books, their makers and their audience” with nominees in a variety of categories. Winners were honored on May 11, 2026 through a livestream and at Grosvenor House in London. For the complete winners list, see the official website.