The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback original novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. Debut novels by American novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. [1]
Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1954 | Charlotte Jay | Beat Not the Bones | Winner | |
1955 | Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye | Winner | |
1956 | Margaret Millar | Beast in View | Winner | |
The Gordons | The Case of the Talking Bug | Shortlist | ||
Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |||
1957 | Charlotte Armstrong | A Dram of Poison | Winner | |
Margot Bennett | The Man Who Didn't Fly | Shortlist | ||
Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | |||
1958 | Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | Winner | |
Bill Ballinger | The Longest Second | Shortlist | ||
Marjorie Carleton | The Night of the Good Children | |||
Arthur Upfield | The Bushman Who Came Back | |||
1959 | Stanley Ellin | The Eighth Circle | Winner | |
David Alexander | The Madhouse in Washington Square | Shortlist | ||
Lee Blackstock | The Woman in the Woods (Miss Fenny as Charity Blackstock) | |||
Dorothy Salisbury Davis | A Gentleman Called |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1970 | Dick Francis | Forfeit | Winner | |
Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Where the Dark Streets Go | Shortlist | ||
Peter Dickinson | The Old English Peep Show | |||
Shaun Herron | Miro | |||
Chester Himes | Blind Man with a Pistol | |||
Emma Lathen | When in Greece | |||
1971 | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö | The Laughing Policeman | Winner | |
Shaun Herron | The Hound and the Fox and the Harper | Shortlist | ||
Margaret Millar | Beyond this Point Are Monsters | |||
Patricia Moyes | Many Deadly Returns | |||
Pat Stadley | Autumn of a Hunter | |||
Donald E. Westlake | The Hot Rock | |||
1972 | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | Winner | |
G. F. Newman | Sir, You Bastard | Shortlist | ||
Tony Hillerman | The Fly on the Wall | |||
P. D. James | Shroud for a Nightingale | |||
Arthur Wise | Who Killed Enoch Powell? | |||
1973 | Warren Kiefer | The Lingala Code | Winner | |
John Ball | Five Pieces of Jade | Shortlist | ||
Ngaio Marsh | Tied Up in Tinsel | |||
Hugh C. Rae | The Shooting Gallery | |||
Martin Cruz Smith | Canto for a Gypsy | |||
1974 | Tony Hillerman | Dance Hall of the Dead | Winner | |
Victor Canning | The Rainbird Pattern | Shortlist | ||
Francis Clifford | Amigo, Amigo | |||
P. D. James | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | |||
Jean Stubbs | Dear Laura | |||
1975 | Jon Cleary | Peter's Pence | Winner | |
Malcolm Bosse | The Man Who Loved Zoos | Shortlist | ||
Francis Clifford | Goodbye and Amen | |||
Paul Erdman | The Silver Bears | |||
Andrew Garve | The Lester Affair | |||
1976 | Brian Garfield | Hopscotch | Winner | |
Marvin Albert | The Gargoyle Conspiracy | Shortlist | ||
Maggie Rennert | Operation Alcestic | |||
Gerald Seymour | Harry's Game | |||
Ross Thomas | The Money Harvest | |||
1977 | Robert B. Parker | Promised Land | Winner | |
Thomas Gifford | The Cavanaugh Quest | Shortlist | ||
Richard Neely | A Madness of the Heart | |||
Gerald Seymour | The Glory Boys | |||
Trevanian | The Main | |||
1978 | William H. Hallahan | Catch Me: Kill Me | Winner | |
William McIlvanney | Laidlaw | Shortlist | ||
Martin Cruz Smith | Nightwing | |||
1979 | Ken Follett | Eye of the Needle | Winner | |
John Godey | The Snake | Shortlist | ||
Tony Hillerman | Listening Woman | |||
Ruth Rendell | A Sleeping Life | |||
Jack S. Scott | The Shallow Grave |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1980 | Arthur Maling | The Rheingold Route | Winner | |
Robert Barnard | Death of a Mystery Writer | Shortlist | ||
Frank Parrish | Fire in the Barley | |||
Ruth Rendell | Make Death Love Me | |||
C. P. Snow | A Coat of Varnish | |||
1981 | Dick Francis | Whip Hand | Winner | |
Robert Barnard | Death of a Literary Widow | Shortlist | ||
B. M. Gill | Death Drop | |||
Reginald Hill | The Spy's Wife | |||
A. J. Quinnell | Man on Fire | |||
1982 | William Bayer | Peregrine | Winner | |
Ted Allbeury | The Other Side of Silence | Shortlist | ||
Robert Barnard | Death in a Cold Climate | |||
Liza Cody | Dupe | |||
Robert Littell | The Amateur | |||
Patrick McGinley | Bogmail | |||
1983 | Rick Boyer | Billingsgate Shoal | Winner | |
Lawrence Block | Eight Million Ways To Die | Shortlist | ||
Elmore Leonard | Split Images | |||
Seymour Shubin | The Captain | |||
Donald E. Westlake | Kahawa | |||
1984 | Elmore Leonard | La Brava | Winner | |
Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | Shortlist | ||
John Le Carré | The Little Drummer Girl | |||
Christopher Leach | Texas Station | |||
William McIlvanney | The Papers of Tony Veitch | |||
1985 | Ross Thomas | Briarpatch | Winner | |
Michael Gilbert | The Black Seraphim | Shortlist | ||
B. M. Gill | The Twelfth Juror | |||
Jane Langton | Emily Dickinson Is Dead | |||
William Pearson | Chessplayer | |||
1986 | L. R. Wright | The Suspect | Winner | |
Paul Auster | City of Glass: The New York Trilogy | Shortlist | ||
Simon Brett | A Shock to the System | |||
Ruth Rendell | An Unkindness of Ravens | |||
Ruth Rendell | The Tree of Hands | |||
1987 | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Winner | |
Brian Freemantle | The Blind Run ^ | Shortlist | ||
Joe Gores | Come Morning | |||
P. D. James | A Taste for Death | |||
Roger L. Simon | The Straight Man | |||
1988 | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones | Winner | |
Linda Barnes | A Trouble of Fools | Shortlist | ||
B. M. Gill | Nursery Crimes | |||
Peter Lovesey | Rough Cider | |||
Charlotte MacLeod | The Corpse in Oozak's Pond | |||
1989 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | A Cold Red Sunrise | Winner | |
K. C. Constantine | Joey's Case | Shortlist | ||
Thomas H. Cook | Sacrificial Ground | |||
Tony Hillerman | A Thief of Time | |||
David L. Lindsey | In the Lake of the Moon |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1990 | James Lee Burke | Black Cherry Blues | Winner | [3] |
Frances Fyfield | A Question of Guilt | Shortlist | ||
Bartholomew Gill | Death of a Joyce Scholar | |||
Andrew Coburn | Goldilocks | |||
Eugene Izzi | The Booster | |||
1991 | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning | Winner | |
Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence | Shortlist | ||
R.D. Zimmerman | Deadfall In Berlin | |||
Jay Brandon | Fade the Heat | |||
Loren Estleman | Whiskey River | |||
1992 | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Winner | |
Andrew Klavan | Don't Say a Word | Shortlist | ||
Nancy Pickard | I.O.U. | |||
Stuart Woods | Palindrome | |||
Lia Matera | Prior Convictions | |||
1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter | Winner | |
Joe Gores | 32 Cadillacs | Shortlist | ||
Liza Cody | Backhand | |||
Kem Nunn | Pomona Queen | |||
Walter Mosley | White Butterfly | |||
1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | Winner | |
Robert Crais | Free Fall | Shortlist | ||
Peter Hoeg | Smilla's Sense Of Snow | |||
Gerald Seymour | The Journeyman Tailor | |||
Marcia Muller | Wolf in the Shadows | |||
1995 | Mary Willis Walker | The Red Scream | Winner | |
Lawrence Block | A Long Line of Dead Men | Shortlist | ||
Peter Abrahams | Lights Out | |||
Edna Buchanan | Miami, It's Murder | |||
Peter Robinson | Wednesday's Child | |||
1996 | Dick Francis | Come to Grief | Winner | |
John Dunning | The Bookman's Wake | Shortlist | ||
Edward Marston | The Roaring Boy | |||
John Katzenbach | The Shadow Man | |||
Peter Lovesey | The Summons | |||
1997 | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair | Winner | |
Margaret Lawrence | Hearts and Bones | Shortlist | ||
Carolyn Wheat | Mean Streak | |||
Anne Perry | Pentecost Alley | |||
Laurie R. King | With Child | |||
1998 | James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose | Winner | [3] |
Bill Pronzini | A Wasteland of Strangers | Shortlist | ||
Ian Rankin | Black and Blue | |||
Deborah Crombie | Dreaming of the Bones | |||
Mark T. Sullivan | The Purification Ceremony | |||
1999 | Robert Clark | Mr. White's Confession | Winner | |
J. Wallis Martin | A Likeness in Stone | Shortlist | ||
Robert Goddard | Beyond Recall | |||
Michael Connelly | Blood Work | |||
Domenic Stansberry | The Last Days of Il Duce |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | Jan Burke | Bones | Winner | |
Rennie Airth | River of Darkness | Shortlist | ||
Robert Crais | L.A. Requiem | |||
Stephen Greenleaf | Strawberry Sunday | |||
Peter Robinson | In a Dry Season | |||
2001 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Bottoms | Winner | |
Val McDermid | A Place of Execution | Shortlist | ||
T. Jefferson Parker | Red Light | |||
Nancy Pickard | The Whole Truth | |||
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | A Dangerous Road | |||
2002 | T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe | Winner | |
D. W. Buffa | The Judgment | Shortlist | ||
Harlan Coben | Tell No One | |||
Evan Hunter | Money, Money, Money | |||
S. J. Rozan | Reflecting the Sky | |||
2003 | S. J. Rozan | Winter and Night | Winner | |
Mary Kay Andrews | Savannah Blues | Shortlist | ||
James Lee Burke | Jolie Blon's Bounce | |||
Michael Connelly | City of Bones | |||
Manda Scott | No Good Deed | |||
2004 | Ian Rankin | Resurrection Men | Winner | |
Ken Bruen | The Guards | Shortlist | ||
Michael Connelly | Lost Light | |||
Natsuo Kirino | Out | |||
Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | |||
2005 | T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl | Winner | |
Laura Lippman | By a Spider's Thread | Shortlist | ||
Chris Mooney | Remembering Sarah | |||
Janet Quin-Harkin | Evan's Gate | |||
Julia Spencer-Fleming | Out of the Deep I Cry | |||
2006 | Jess Walter | Citizen Vince | Winner | |
Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer | Shortlist | ||
Thomas H. Cook | Red Leaves | |||
Tess Gerritsen | Vanish | |||
George Pelecanos | Drama City | |||
2007 | Jason Goodwin | The Janissary Tree | Winner | |
Louis Bayard | The Pale Blue Eye | Shortlist | [4] | |
Joanne Harris | Gentlemen & Players | |||
Denise Mina | The Dead Hour: Time Only Matters When It's Running Out | |||
Nancy Pickard | The Virgin of Small Plains | |||
Olen Steinhauer | Liberation Movements | |||
2008 | John Hart | Down River | Winner | [5] |
John Banville | Christine Falls | Shortlist | [6] | |
Ken Bruen | Priest | |||
Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | |||
Reed Coleman | Soul Patch | |||
2009 | C. J. Box | Blue Heaven | Winner | [7] |
Karin Alvtegen | Missing | Shortlist | [8] | |
Robert Ferrigno | Sins of the Assassin | |||
Declan Hughes | The Price of Blood | |||
Morag Joss | The Night Following | |||
Lisa Lutz | Curse of the Spellmans |
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