| 2016 | | My Rating |
| The 2016 award will be given at the 2017 United States SF National Convention for a book published in 2016 |
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| 2015 |
| Raising Caine | Charles E. Gannon |
| The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin |
| Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | |  | | | | |
| The Grace of Kings | Ken Liu |
| Uprooted | Naomi Novik |
| Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard | Lawrence M. Schoen |
| Updraft | Fran Wilde |
| 2014 |
| The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison |
| Trial by Fire | Charles E. Gannon |
| Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie | | | | | | |
| The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu |
| Coming Home | Jack McDevitt |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2013 |
| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman |
| Fire with Fire | Charles E. Gannon |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | | | | | | |
| The Red: First Light | Linda Nagata |
| A Stranger in Olondria | Sofia Samatar |
| The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker |
| 2012 |
| Throne of the Crescent Moon | Saladin Ahmed |
| Ironskin | Tina Connolly |
| The Killing Moon | N.K. Jemisin |
| The Drowning Girl | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| Glamour in Glass | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | | | | | | |
| 2011 |
| God’s War | Kameron Hurley |
| The Kingdom of Gods | N.K. Jemisin |
| Firebird | Jack McDevitt |
| Embassytown | China Miéville |
| Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti | Genevieve Valentine |
| Among Others | Jo Walton |
| 2010 |
| The Native Star | M.K. Hobson |
| The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N. K. Jemisin |
| Shades of Milk and Honey | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| Echo | Jack McDevitt |
| Who Fears Death | Nnedi Okorafor |
| Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis |