Most Popular Nebula Award Books of the 20th century

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1966

Ender #1

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Movie · Nebula Award

1985

Dune #1

Dune

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Nebula Award

1965

The Forever War series #1

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1974

Heechee Saga #1

Gateway

Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award · Prix Apollo

1977

Hainish Cycle

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction · Social Science Fiction · Utopia · Hugo Award · Locus Award

1974

Ender #2

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1986

Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Nebula Award

1969

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1972

Uplift #2

Startide Rising

David Brin

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1983

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1992

Rama #1

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · BSFA Award · Hugo Award · Locus Award

1973

Earthsea #4

Tehanu

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1990

Ringworld #1

Ringworld

Larry Niven

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1970

Sprawl #1

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Science Fiction · Cyberpunk · Hugo Award · Nebula Award · Philip K. Dick Award

1984

The Book of the New Sun #2

The Claw of the Conciliator

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1981

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award · Nebula Award

1978

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Nebula Award

1979

The Moon and the Sun

Vonda N. McIntyre

Fantasy · Nebula Award · Historical Fiction

1997

Darwin #1

Darwin's Radio

Greg Bear

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1999

Earthseed #2

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1998

Vorkosigan

Falling Free

Lois McMaster Bujold

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Nebula Award

April 1988

Club of Rome Quartet

The Sheep Look Up

John Brunner

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic · Nebula Award

1972

A Time of Changes

Robert Silverberg

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1971

Moving Mars

Greg Bear

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1993

The Einstein Intersection

Samuel R. Delany

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1967

Man Plus

Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1976

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1966

Mars Trilogy #1

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science Fiction · BSFA Award · Nebula Award

1992

Stations of the Tide

Michael Swanwick

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1991

Timescape

Gregory Benford

Science Fiction · BSFA Award · Nebula Award

1980

The Forever War series #2

Forever Peace

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Nebula Award

1997

Slow River

Nicola Griffith

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1995

The Terminal Experiment

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1995

The Healer's War

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Fantasy · Nebula Award

1988

The Falling Woman

Pat Murphy

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Nebula Award

1986