Most Popular World Fantasy Award Books of the 2000s

Discover popular World Fantasy Award books from the 2000s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

Magical Realism · Translation · World Fantasy Award

2005

8.6/10 53 ratings

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Fantasy · 19th century · Fairies · Historical Fantasy · Hugo Award

2004

8.0/10 172 ratings

Earthsea #6

The Other Wind

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · TV Series · World Fantasy Award

2001

7.9/10 134 ratings

Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A. McKillip

Fantasy · Mythopoeic Awards · World Fantasy Award

January 2002

7.7/10 115 ratings

The City & the City

China Miéville

Fantasy · Arthur C. Clarke Award · BSFA Award · Hugo Award · Locus Award

April 29, 2009

7.4/10 59 ratings

The Very Best of Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

July 16, 2009

10/10 1 ratings

The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

March 13, 2009

10/10 1 ratings

Soldier Series #3

Soldier of Sidon

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · World Fantasy Award · Historical Fiction

October 2006

9/10 2 ratings

Declare

Tim Powers

Fantasy · World Fantasy Award · Thriller

2000

9/10 2 ratings

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories

Jeffrey Ford

Fantasy · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2002

9/10 1 ratings

Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan

Fantasy · Young Adult · World Fantasy Award

October 1, 2008

8.8/10 4 ratings

Tooth and Claw

Jo Walton

Fantasy · World Fantasy Award

November 2003

8.8/10 4 ratings

Galveston

Sean Stewart

Fantasy · Magical Realism · World Fantasy Award

2000

8/10 3 ratings

Black Juice

Margo Lanagan

Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2004

8/10 2 ratings

Map of Dreams

M. Rickert

Fantasy · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2006

8/10 1 ratings

Ysabel

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy · World Fantasy Award

January 2007

7.9/10 7 ratings

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2009

The Drowned Life

Jeffrey Ford

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2008

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy

Ekaterina Sedia

Fantasy · Anthology · World Fantasy Award

April 1, 2008

The Shadow Year

Jeffrey Ford

Fantasy · World Fantasy Award

March 11, 2008

Tiny Deaths

Robert Shearman

Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2007

The Keyhole Opera

Bruce Holland Rogers

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2005

Bibliomancy

Elizabeth Hand

Fantasy · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2003

The Facts of Life

Graham Joyce

Magical Realism · World Fantasy Award

2002

Skin Folk

Nalo Hopkinson

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2001

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories

Andy Duncan

Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

2000