Niche Awards

Smaller-circulation, fan-voted, or sub-category awards. Real recognitions, but easier for a single book to accumulate several of via overlapping fan communities honoring the same underlying achievement.

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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
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45
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The City & the City
China Miéville
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40
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American Gods
Neil Gaiman
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39
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
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39
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
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37
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
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37
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Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
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36
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
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33
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
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32
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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31
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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30
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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
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29
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Uprooted
Naomi Novik
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29
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Among Others
Jo Walton
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28
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The Prestige
Christopher Priest
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28
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The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
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28
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Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
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27
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The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
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27
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
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27
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Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke
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26
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
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3
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26
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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26
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
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25
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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2
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25
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The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
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25
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A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
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24
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Little, Big
John Crowley
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24
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
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24
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The Scar
China Miéville
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24
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Air
Geoff Ryman
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23
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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2
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23
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Network Effect
Martha Wells
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3
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23
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Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
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3
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23
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The Changeling
Victor LaValle
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23
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The Time Ships
Stephen Baxter
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23
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A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger
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22
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The Drowning Girl
Caitlin R. Kiernan
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22
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The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
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22
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A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
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21
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A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
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2
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21
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42
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher
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3
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21
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43
Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
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3
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21
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Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
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3
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21
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Gateway
Frederik Pohl
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3
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21
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith
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21
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47
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
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3
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21
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48
Startide Rising
David Brin
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3
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21
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49
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
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3
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21
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50
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
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2
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21
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