This is a list of Dragon Award nominees.
| Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Shepherd's Crown * | Doubleday | ||
| Calamity | Delacorte Press | |||
| Carry On | St. Martin's Griffin | |||
| Changeling's Island | Baen Books | |||
| Six of Crows | Henry Holt | |||
| Steeplejack | Tor Teen | |||
| Trix & the Faerie Queen | self-published | |||
| Updraft | Tor Books | |||
| 2017 | The Hammer of Thor * | Disney-Hyperion Books | ||
| A Court of Wings and Ruin | Bloomsbury USA | |||
| Defy the Stars | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |||
| Firebrand | Tor Teen | |||
| It's All Fun and Games | Nerdist / Inkshares | |||
| Rachel and the Many-Spendored Dreamland | Wisecraft Publishing | |||
| Swan Knight's Son | Castalia House | |||
| 2018 | Children of Blood and Bone * | Henry Holt | ||
| Brightly Burning | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |||
| Cold Bath Street | UCLan Publishing | |||
| A Court of Frost and Starlight | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |||
| Warcross | G. P. Putnam's Sons | |||
| When Tinker Met Bell | Sugar Skull Books | |||
| 2019 | Bloodwitch * | Susan Dennard | Tor Teen | |
| Archenemies | Marissa Meyer | Feiwel and Friends | ||
| Armageddon Girls | Aaron Michael Ritchey | Shadow Alley Press | ||
| Imposters | Scholastic Press | |||
| The King's Regret | Philip Ligon | Silver Empire | ||
| The Pioneer | Bridget Tyler | Tor Teen | ||
| Sawkill Girls | Katherine Tegen Books | |||
| 2020 | Finch Merlin and the Fount of Youth * | Nightlight Press | ||
| Catfishing on CatNet | Tor Teen | |||
| COG | Greg van Eekhout | HarperCollins | ||
| Force Collector | Kevin Shinick | Disney Lucasfilm Press | ||
| The Grace Year | Wednesday Books | |||
| The Poison Jungle | Scholastic | |||
| 2021 | A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking * | Red Wombat Studio | ||
| A Deadly Education | Naomi Novik | Del Rey | ||
| Elatsoe | Darcie Little Badger | Levine Querido | ||
| A Peculiar Peril | Jeff VanderMeer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ||
| The Scapegracers | Erewhon | |||
| Aethon Books | ||||
| 2022 | A Dark and Starless Forest * | Sarah Hollowell | Clarion Books | |
| Gallant | Greenwillow Books | |||
| Akata Woman | Viking Books for Young Readers | |||
| A Snake Falls to Earth | Levine Querido | |||
| Redemptor | Abrams Books | |||
| Iron Widow | Penguin Teen | |||
| 2023 | The Golden Enclaves * | Naomi Novik | Del Ray | |
| The Scratch Daughters | H. A. Clarke | Self-Published | ||
| Rust in the Root | Justina Ireland | Balzer + Brey | ||
| Academy Arcanist | Shami Stovall | Capital Station Books | ||
| Foul Lady Fortune | Chloe Gong | Margaret K. McElderry Books | ||
| Bloodmarked | Tracy Deonn | Simon & Schuster | ||
| 2024 | Midnight at the Houdini * | Delilah S. Dawson | ||
| Death Lord Archanist | Shami Stovall | Capital Station Books | ||
| Hideki Smith, Demon Queller | A.J. Hartley, Hisako Osako, Kuma Hartley | |||
| Home Coming in Black | J.M. Anjewierden | |||
| So Let Them Burn | Kamilah Cole | |||
| The Spirit Bares Its Teeth | Andrew Joseph White |
| Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Hell's Foundations Quiver * | Tor Books | ||
| Blood in the Water | Roc Books | |||
| Chains of Command | 47North | |||
| The End of All Things ∞ | Tor Books | |||
| Fallen | self-published | |||
| The Price of Valor | Roc Books | |||
| Wrath of an Angry God | Arc Flash Publishing | |||
| 2017 | Iron Dragoons * | Triplane Press | ||
| Caine's Mutiny | Baen Books | |||
| Cartwright's Cavaliers | Seventh Seal Press | |||
| Exiles | self-published | |||
| Rescue Run | Evil Girlfriend Media | |||
| Resistance | self-published | |||
| The Span of Empire | Baen Books | |||
| Starship Liberator | David VanDyke, B. V. Larson | Castalia House | ||
| 2018 | A Call to Vengeance * | Timothy Zahn, David Weber, and Thomas Pope | Baen Books | |
| Communication Failure | Saga Press | |||
| Semper Fi Press | ||||
| Legend | Christopher Woods | Seventh Seal Press | ||
| Points of Impact | 47North | |||
| Price of Freedom | LMBPN Publishing | |||
| 2019 | Uncompromising Honor * | David Weber | Baen Books | |
| The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley | Saga Press | ||
| Marine | Joshua Dalzelle | self-published | ||
| Order of the Centurion | Jason Anspach and Nick Cole | Galaxy's Edge | ||
| A Pale Dawn | Chris Kennedy and Mark Wandrey | Seventh Seal Press | ||
| Sons of the Lion | Jason Cordova | Seventh Seal Press | ||
| 2020 | Savage Wars | Jason Anspach, Nick Cole | Galaxy's Edge Press | |
| Aftershocks | 47North | |||
| Defiance | Bear Ross | Self-published | ||
| Edge of Valor | Josh Hayes | Aethon Books | ||
| Howling Dark | DAW | |||
| System Failure | Gallery / Saga Press | |||
| 2021 | Gun Runner * | Larry Correia, John D. Brown | Baen | |
| Demon in White | DAW | |||
| Direct Fire | Self-published | |||
| Fleet Elements | Harper Voyager | |||
| Orders of Battle | 47North | |||
| Sentenced to War | Self-published | |||
| 2022 | A Call to Insurrection * | David Weber, Timothy Zahn, & Thomas Pope | Baen | |
| The Shattered Skies | Del Rey | |||
| Resolute | Jack Campbell | Ace | ||
| Backyard Starship | J. N. Chaney & Terry Maggert | Self published | ||
| Against All Odds | Jeffery H. Haskell | Aethon Books | ||
| Citadel | 47North |
| Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | League of Dragons * | Del Rey Books | ||
| Baen Books | ||||
| Baen Books | ||||
| Bombs Away | Del Rey Books | |||
| Germanica | Baen Books | |||
| Ghostwalkers | Tor Books | |||
| 2017 | Fallout * | Del Rey Books | ||
| Baen Books | ||||
| Another Girl, Another Planet | WordFire Press | |||
| Breath of Earth | Harper Voyager | |||
| A Change in Crime | self-published | |||
| The Last Days of New Paris | Del Rey | |||
| No Gods, Only Daimons | Castalia House | |||
| Witchy Eye | Baen Books | |||
| 2018 | Uncharted * | Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt | Baen Books | |
| Dark State | Tor Books | |||
| The Dream of the Iron Dragon | self-published | |||
| Minds of Men | Theogony Books | |||
| The Sea Peoples | Ace Books | |||
| Witchy Winter | Baen Books | |||
| 2019 | Black Chamber * | Ace Books | ||
| The Calculating Stars | Tor Books | |||
| The Iron Codex | Tor Books | |||
| Machines Like Me | Doubleday | |||
| Unholy Land | Tachyon Publications | |||
| The World Asunder | Theogony Books | |||
| 2020 | Witchy Kingdom * | Baen | ||
| As Our World Ends | Jack Hunt | Self-published | ||
| The Girl with No Face | Talos | |||
| A Nation Interrupted | Braveship Books | |||
| Revolution | W. L. Goodwater | Ace | ||
| Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice | Ring of Fire Press | |||
| 2021 | * | Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon | Baen | |
| Axiom's End | St. Martin's Griffin | |||
| Daggers in Darkness | S. M. Stirling | Ring of Fire Press | ||
| A Master of Djinn | Tor Books | |||
| The Relentless Moon | Tor Books | |||
| The Russian Cage | Saga Press | |||
| 2022 | The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley * | DAW Books | ||
| When Women Were Dragons | Doubleday | |||
| She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan | Tor Books | ||
| The King's Daughter | Open Road Media | |||
| Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright | Baen Books | |||
| Invisible Sun | Tor Books | |||
| 2023 | Lost in Time * | A. G. Riddle | Head of Zeus | |
| Hidden Voices | Dan Willis | Runeblade Entertainment | ||
| Halcyon | Elliot Ackerman | Knopf | ||
| The Mother | B. L. Blanchard | 47North | ||
| The Revolutionary War | Christopher G. Nutall | Elsewhen Press | ||
| 2024 | All the Dead Shall Weep * | Charlaine Harris | Saga Press | |
| Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, & Gorg Huff | Baen Books | |||
| Cahokia Jazz | Francis Spufford | Faber & Faber | ||
| Dirty Water | Tom Kratman | Baen Books | ||
| Devil's Battle | Taylor Anderson | Roc Books | ||
| The Wages of Sin | Harry Turtledove | Del Rey Books |
| Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ctrl Alt Revolt! * | self-published | ||
| A Time to Die | Henchman Press | |||
| Chasing Freedom | self-published | |||
| Dark Age | Hartmann Publishing | |||
| The Desert and the Blade | Roc Books | |||
| The Fifth Season | Orbit Books | |||
| 2017 | Walkaway * | Tor Books | ||
| American War | Alfred A. Knopf | |||
| self-published | ||||
| Falling | self-published | |||
| The Obelisk Gate ∞[15] [16] | Orbit Books | |||
| The Place Outside the Wild | self-published | |||
| Rick Heinz | Inkshares |
The category "Best Media Tie-In Novel" was introduced in 2018 and removed from the awards in 2023.
| Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Souldancer * | self-published | ||
| Alice | Ace Books | |||
| An Unattractive Vampire | Sword & Laser | |||
| Chapelwood | Roc Books | |||
| Disappearance at Devil's Rock | William Morrow/HarperCollins | |||
| Honor at Stake | self-published | |||
| 2017 | The Changeling * | Spiegel & Grau | ||
| The Bleak December | Wonderment Media | |||
| Blood of Invidia | PiR8 Productions | |||
| Donn's Hill | Immortal Works | |||
| A God in the Shed | Inkshares | |||
| The Hidden People ∞ | Jo Fletcher Books | |||
| Live and Let Bite | self-published | |||
| Nothing Left to Lose | Tor Books | |||
| 2018 | Sleeping Beauties * | Stephen King and Owen King | Scribner | |
| Beneath the Lighthouse | Vesuvian Books | |||
| The Cabin at the End of the World | Morrow | |||
| Glimpse | St. Martin's Press | |||
| Meddling Kids | Doubleday | |||
| A Time to Run | Blood Moon Press | |||
| 2019 | Little Darlings * | Melanie Golding | Crooked Lane Books | |
| 100 Fathoms Below | Blackstone Publishing | |||
| Cardinal Black | Robert R. McCammon | Cemetery Dance Publications | ||
| Riddance | Black Balloon Publishing | |||
| We Sold Our Souls | Quirk Books | |||
| Zombie Airman | self-published | |||
| 2020 | The Twisted Ones * | Gallery / Saga Press | ||
| Imaginary Friend | Stephen Chbosky | Grand Central Publishing | ||
| The Pursuit of William Abbey | Claire North | Orbit | ||
| Scavenger Hunt | Michaelbrent Collings | Self-published | ||
| The Toll | Tor Books | |||
| 2021 | The Hollow Places * | T. Kingfisher | Gallery / Saga Press | |
| The Only Good Indians | Saga Press | |||
| Survivor Song | William Morrow | |||
| Synchronicity | Self-published | |||
| The Taxidermist's Lover | Camcat Publishing, LLC | |||
| True Story | Kate Reed Petty | Penguin Books | ||
| 2022 | The Book of Accidents * | Chuck Wendig | Random House | |
| The Final Girl Support Group | Berkley Books | |||
| The Death of Jane Lawrence | Macmillan | |||
| My Heart Is a Chainsaw | Gallery/Saga Press | |||
| Hide | Penguin Random House | |||
| Revelator | Daryl Gregory | Knopf Publishing | ||
| 2023 | A House with Good Bones * | T. Kingfisher | Tor Nightfire | |
| The Devil Takes You Home | Gabino Iglesias | Mulholland Books | ||
| Reluctant Immortals | Gwendolyn Kiste | Simon& Schuster | ||
| No Gods for Drowning | Hailey Piper | Polis Books | ||
| The Pallbearers Club | Paul G. Tremblay | William Morrow Paperbacks | ||
| The Only One Left | Riley Sager | Dutton | ||
| 2024 | Black River Orchid * | Chuck Wendig | ||
| Dead Storm Rising | Shane Gries | |||
| Double Dose | Paul Wilson | |||
| The Dead Take a Train | Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw | |||
| The Hollow Dead | Darcy Coates | |||
| The Reformatory | Tananarive Due |
The category "Best Illustrative Book Cover" was first introduced in 2023.
The categories "Best Comic Book" and "Best Graphic Novel" were combined into a single category in 2023.
| Year | Work | Author(s)/ Artist(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | * | Neil Gaiman, J. H. Williams III | Vertigo Comics | |
| Chicago | Glenn Head | Fantagraphics Books | ||
| Killing and Dying | Drawn & Quarterly | |||
| March: Book Two | Top Shelf Productions | |||
| Sacred Heart | Liz Suburbia | Fantagraphics Books | ||
| Virgil | Image Comics | |||
| 2017 | * | Jim Butcher, Carlos Gomez | Dynamite Entertainment | |
| Clive Barker's Nightbreed Volume Three | Boom! Studios | |||
| Girl Genius: The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne, Book 2: The City of Lightning | Studio Foglio | |||
| Love Is Love | various | IDW Publishing | ||
| March: Book Three | Top Shelf Productions | |||
| My Favorite Thing Is Monsters | Fantagraphics Books | |||
| Stuck in My Head | self-published | |||
| 2018 | White Sand, Volume 1 * | Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin and Julius M. Gopez | Dynamite Entertainment | |
| Be Prepared | First Second | |||
| Dark Legion | ||||
| Monstress Volume Two: The Blood | Image Comics | |||
| Paper Girls Volume 4 | Image Comics | |||
| The Vision | Marvel Comics | |||
| 2019 | * | Ed Piskor | Marvel Comics | |
| Berlin | Drawn and Quarterly | |||
| Hey, Kiddo | Graphix | |||
| I Am Young | Fantagraphics | |||
| Monstress Vol. 3 | Image Comics | |||
| On a Sunbeam | First Second | |||
| 2020 | Battlestar Galactica Counterstrike * | John Jackson Miller, Daniel HDR | Dynamite Entertainment | |
| Batman Universe | DC Comics | |||
| Black Bolt | Marvel Comics | |||
| Dragon Hoops | First Second | |||
| Mister Miracle | DC Comics | |||
| Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 | Boom! Studios | |||
| 2021 | The Magicians: New Class * | Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges, Pius Bak | Archaia | |
| The Book Tour | Top Shelf Productions | |||
| Dracula, Motherf**ker | Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson | Image Comics | ||
| The Green Lantern Season Two | DC Comics | |||
| The Magic Fish | Trung Le Nguyen | Random House Graphic | ||
| Pulp | Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips | Image Comics | ||
| 2022 | Dune: House Atreides Volume 2 * | Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Dev Pramanik | Boom! Studios | |
| Geiger | Image Comics | |||
| Bitter Root Volume 3 | David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, Sofie Dodgson | Image Comics | ||
| Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons | DC Comics | |||
| Monstress, Volume 6: The Vow | Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda | Image Comics | ||
| Saga | Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples | Image Comics |
| Year | Work | Author(s)/ Artist(s) | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dune: House Harkonnen * | Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Michael Shelfer | ||
| Kaya | Wes Craig | |||
| Dawn of DC: Green Arrow | Joshua Williamson, Sean Izaakse | DC Comics | ||
| Wolverine | Benjamin Percy, Juan José Ryp | Marvel Comics | ||
| X-Men | Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara | Marvel Comics | ||
| Night Fever | Ed Brubaker, Sean Philips, Jacob Phillips | Image Comics | ||
| 2024 | Monstress * | Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda | ||
| Batman | Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez | DC Comics | ||
| Canary | Scott Snyder, Dan Panosian | |||
| Nightwing | Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo | |||
| Wonder Woman | Tom King, Daniel Sampere | DC Comics | ||
| X-Men: Forever | Kieron Gillen, Luca Maresca | Marvel Comics |
| Year | Work | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | * | Nintendo EPD | |
| Diablo IV | Blizzard Entertainment | ||
| Hogwarts Legacy | Avalanche Software | ||
| Respawn Entertainment | |||
| Overwatch 2 | Blizzard Entertainment | ||
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II | Infinity Ward | ||
| 2024 | Baldur's Gate 3 * | Larian Studios | |
| Starfield | Bethesda Game Studios | ||
| Alan Wake 2 | Remedy Entertainment | ||
| Dragon's Dogma 2 | Capcom | ||
| FromSoftware | |||
| Helldivers 2 | Arrowhead Game Studios |
| Year | Work | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Pandemic: Legacy * | Z-Man Games | |
| Star Wars: Rebellion | Fantasy Flight Games | ||
| Blood Rage | CoolMiniOrNot | ||
| Talon | GMT Games | ||
| USAopoly | |||
| Codenames | Vlaada Chvátil | ||
| 2017 | Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk * | Avalon Hill | |
| Gloomhaven | Cephalofair Games | ||
| Hero Realms | White Wizard Games | ||
| Mansions of Madness (2nd edition) | Fantasy Flight Games | ||
| Scythe | Stonemaier Games | ||
| Terraforming Mars | Stronghold Games | ||
| 2018 | Red Dragon Inn 6: Villains * | Slugfest Games | |
| Azul | Plan B Games | ||
| Mysterium: Secrets and Lies Expansion | Asmodee | ||
| Photosynthesis | Blue Orange Games | ||
| Rising Sun | CMON Games | ||
| When I Dream | Asmodee | ||
| 2019 | Betrayal Legacy * | Avalon Hill Games | |
| Architects of the West Kingdom | Garphill Games | [26] | |
| Cryptid | Osprey Games | ||
| Everdell | Starling Games | ||
| Nemesis | Awaken Realms | ||
| Root | Leder Games | ||
| 2020 | Tapestry * | Stonemaier Games | |
| Kosmos | |||
| Forgotten Waters | Plaid Hat Games | ||
| The King's Dilemma | Horrible Guild Game Studio | ||
| Jaws of the Lion | Cephalofair Games | ||
| Renegade Game Studios | |||
| 2021 | * | Dire Wolf Games | |
| Curious Cargo | Capstone Games | ||
| Marvel United | CMON Limited | ||
| Oceans | North Star Games | ||
| Z-Man Games | |||
| Sleeping Gods | Red Raven Games | ||
| 2022 | * | Fantasy Flight Games | |
| Ark Nova | Capstone Games | ||
| Cascadia | Alderac Entertainment Group | ||
| Return to Dark Tower | Restoration Games | ||
| 7 Wonders: Architects | Asmodee | ||
| Ravensburger | |||
| Year | Work | Publisher(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Magic the Gathering: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth * | Wizards of the Coast | |
| Frosthaven | Cephalofair Games | ||
| Earth | Inside Up Games | ||
| Dorfromantik – The Boardgame | Pegasus Spiele | ||
| Turing Machine | Scorpion Masque | ||
| Alien Role-playing Game: Heart of Darkness | Free League | ||
| 2024 | D&D The Deck of Many Things * | Wizards of the Coast | |
| Cascadia: Landmarks | Flatout Games | ||
| Dune: Imperium – Uprising | Dire Wolf | ||
| Magic: The Gathering Wilds of Eldraine | Wizards of the Coast | ||
| Disney Lorcana | Ravensburger | ||
| Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs | Cephalofair Games |