Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

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The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

YearAuthorNovelPublisherRef.
2007 Elizabeth Hand * Generation Loss Small Beer Press [1]
Mike Mignola
Christopher Golden 		Baltimore Bantam Spectra [1]
Toby Barlow Sharp Teeth William Heinemann Ltd [1]
Dan Simmons The Terror Little, Brown and Company [1]
David Peace Tokyo Year Zero Knopf Books [1]
2008 Jeffrey Ford * The Shadow Year William Morrow and Company [2]
Doug Dorst Alive in Necropolis Riverhead Books [2]
Steve Rasnic Tem
Melanie Tem 		The Man on the Ceiling Wizards of the Coast Discoveries [2]
Daryl Gregory Pandemonium Del Rey Books [2]
Jack O'Connell The Resurrectionist Algonquin Books [2]
Margo Lanagan Tender Morsels Knopf Books [2]
2009 Victor LaValle *Big Machine Spiegel & Grau [3]
Brian Evenson Last Days Underland Press [3]
Caitlín R. Kiernan The Red Tree Roc Books [3]
Karen Maitland The Owl Killers Delacorte [3]
Helen Oyeyemi White is for Witching Nan A. Talese [3]
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Riverhead Books [3]
2010 Robert Jackson Bennett * Mr. Shivers Orbit Books [4]
Michelle Paver Dark Matter Orion [4]
Peter Straub A Dark Matter Doubleday [4]
Mira Grant Feed Orbit Books [4]
Alden BellThe Reapers Are the Angels Holt [4]
Graham Joyce The Silent Land Gollancz [4]
2011 Sheri Holman *Witches on the Road Tonight Grove Press [5]
Michael Cisco The Great LoverChômu [5]
Glen Duncan The Last Werewolf Canongate Books [5]
S. P. Miskowski Knock KnockOmnium Gatherum [5]
Reggie Oliver The Dracula PapersChômu [5]
Donald Ray Pollock The Devil All the Time Doubleday [5]
2012 Koji Suzuki *Edge Vertical [6]
Brian Evenson Immobility Tor Books [6]
Gillian Flynn Gone Girl Crown [6]
Caitlín R. Kiernan The Drowning Girl Roc Books [6]
Victor LaValle The Devil in Silver Spiegel & Grau [6]
2013 Robert Jackson Bennett * American Elsewhere Orbit Books [7]
Joyce Carol Oates The Accursed Ecco Press [7]
Andrew Pyper The Demonologist Orion; Simon & Schuster [7]
Yangsze Choo The Ghost Bride William Morrow and Company [7]
Marisha Pessl Night Film Random House [7]
Michael Rowe Wild FellChiZine Publications [7]
2014 Jeff VanderMeer * Annihilation FSG Originals [8]
Lauren Beukes Broken Monsters Mulholland Books [8]
Christopher Buehlman The Lesser Dead Berkley Books [8]
Alison Littlewood The Unquiet House Jo Fletcher Books [8]
Josh Malerman Bird Box Ecco Press [8]
Kanae Minato Confessions Mulholland Books [8]
2015 Gemma Files *Experimental FilmChiZine Publications [9]
Sean EadsLord Byron's Prophecy Lethe Press [9]
Joshua GaylordWhen We Were Animals Mulholland Books [9]
Robert Levy The Glittering World Gallery [9]
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Penguin Press [9]
2016 Emma Cline * The Girls Random House [10]
Emma Donoghue The Wonder Little, Brown and Company [10]
Michael Thomas Ford Lily Lethe Press [10]
Stephen Graham Jones Mongrels Morrow [10]
Iain Reid I'm Thinking of Ending Things Gallery / Scout [10]
Eleanor WasserbergFoxlowe Fourth Estate UK / Penguin US [10]
2017 Pyun Hye-young *The Hole Arcade Publishing [11]
Dan Chaon Ill Will Ballantine Books [11]
David Demchuk The Bone MotherChiZine [11]
Paul La Farge The Night Ocean Penguin Press [11]
Victor LaValle The Changeling Spiegel & Grau [11]
2018 Catriona Ward * Little Eve Weidenfeld & Nicolson [12]
Dale Bailey In the Night Wood John Joseph Adams [12]
Tara Isabella Burton Social Creature Doubleday [12]
Grady Hendrix We Sold Our Souls Quirk Books [12]
Daisy Johnson Everything Under Jonathan Cape [12]
2019 Sarah Rose Etter *The Book of X Two Dollar Radio [13]
Elizabeth Hand Curious Toys Little, Brown and Company [13]
Miciah Bay GaultGoodnight Stranger Park Row Books [13]
Leigh Bardugo Ninth House Gollancz [13]
WilsonNothing to See Here Ecco Press [13]
MoultonTinfoil Butterfly MCD x FSG Productions [13]
2020 Stephen Graham Jones * The Only Good Indians Saga Press [14]
Emily M. Danforth Plain Bad Heroines Morrow [14]
Daisy Johnson Sisters Jonathan Cape [14]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic Del Rey Books [14]
Ottessa Moshfegh Death in Her Hands Penguin Books [14]
Kate Reed PettyTrue Story Viking Press [14]
2021 Stephen Graham Jones * My Heart Is a Chainsaw Saga Press [15]
Cassandra Khaw Nothing But Blackened Teeth Tor Nightfire [15]
A.G. Slatter All the Murmuring Bones Titan Books [15]
Cadwell Turnbull No Gods, No Monsters Blackstone Publishing [15]
Jeff VanderMeer Hummingbird Salamander MCD [15]
2022 Gabino Iglesias *The Devil Takes You Home Mulholland Books [16]
Sophie White *Where I EndTramp [16]
Erin E. Adams Jackal Bantam Books [16]
Paul Gandersman
Peter Hall		The Dead Friends SocietyEncyclopocalypse [16]
Christi NogleBeulahCemetery Gates [16]
Addie TsaiUnwieldy CreaturesJaded Ibis [16]
2023 Tananarive Due * The Reformatory Saga Press [17]
Christa CarmenThe Daughters of Block Island Thomas & Mercer [17]
Aliya ChaudhryEvery Version Ends in DeathHaunt [17]
Stephen Graham Jones Don't Fear the Reaper Saga Press [17]
John MilasThe Militia House Henry Holt and Company [17]
Alison Rumfitt Brainwyrms Tor Nightfire [17]
2024 Yvonne Battle-Felton* Curdle Creek: A Novel Henry Holt & Co [18]
Alisa AleringSmothermoss Tin House [18]
Christopher Golden The House of Last Resort St. Martin's Press [18]
Monika KimThe Eyes are the Best PartErewhon [18]
Gwendolyn Kiste The Haunting of Velkwood Saga Press [18]
Tim McGregorEynhallowRaw Dog Screaming [18]

References

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  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 12 Jul 2015. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 10 Jul 2016. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 16 Jul 2017. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 16 Jul 2018. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 "2018 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 15 Jul 2019. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Liptak, Andrew (12 July 2020). "Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards!". Tor.com . Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 16 Aug 2021. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 "2021 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 31 Oct 2021. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 16 Jul 2023. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 13 July 2024. Retrieved 18 Dec 2025.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 21 Jul 2025. Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
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