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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel

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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.

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Year	Author	Title	Result
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	Shortlist
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	Shortlist
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
1960	Celia Fremlin	The Hours Before Dawn	Winner
1960	Philip MacDonald	The List of Adrian Messenger	Shortlist
1961	Julian Symons	The Progress of a Crime	Winner
	Herbert Brean	The Traces of Brillhart	Shortlist
	Peter Curtis	The Devil's Own
	Geoffrey Household	Watcher in the Shadows
1962	J. J. Marric	Gideon's Fire	Winner
	Anne Blaisdell	Nightmare	Shortlist
	Suzanne Blanc	The Green Stone
	Lionel Davidson	The Night of Wenceslas
	Ross Macdonald	The Wycherly Woman
1963	Ellis Peters	Death and the Joyful Woman	Winner
	Ross Macdonald	The Zebra-Striped Hearse	Shortlist
	Mark McShane	Seance
	Jean Potts	The Evil Wish
	Dell Shannon	Knave of Hearts
	Shelley Smith	The Ballad of the Running Man
1964	Eric Ambler	The Light of Day	Winner
	Elizabeth Fenwick	The Make-Believe Man	Shortlist
	Stanton Forbes	Grieve for the Past
	Dorothy B. Hughes	The Expendable Man
	Ellery Queen	The Player on the Other Side
1965	John le Carré	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Winner
	Hans Hellmut Kirst	The Night of the Generals
	Margaret Millar	The Fiend	Shortlist
	Mary Stewart	This Rough Magic	Shortlist
1966	Adam Hall	The Quiller Memorandum	Winner
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis	The Pale Betrayer	Shortlist
	Len Deighton	Funeral in Berlin
	H. R. F. Keating	The Perfect Murder
	Ross Macdonald	The Far Side of the Dollar
	Mary Stewart	Airs Above the Ground
1967	Nicolas Freeling	King of the Rainy Country	Winner
	Dick Francis	Odds Against	Shortlist
	Ngaio Marsh	Killer Dolphin
	Donald E. Westlake	The Busy Body
1968	Donald E. Westlake	God Save the Mark	Winner
	Charlotte Armstrong	The Gift Shop	Shortlist
	Charlotte Armstrong	Lemon in the Basket
	George Baxt	A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures
	Dick Francis	Flying Finish
	Ira Levin	Rosemary's Baby
	Victoria Lincoln	A Private Disgrace
1969	Michael Crichton	A Case of Need	Winner
	Heron Carvic	Picture Miss Seeton	Shortlist
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross	God Speed the Night
	Peter Dickinson	A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
	Stanley Ellin	The Valentine Estate
	Dick Francis	Blood Sport

Year	Author	Title	Result
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	Shortlist
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
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
1990	James Lee Burke	Black Cherry Blues	Winner
	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
	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

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Year	Author	Shortlist Work	Result	Ref
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	^[2]
	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	^[3]
	John Banville	Christine Falls	Shortlist	^[4]
	Ken Bruen	Priest
	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
	Reed Coleman	Soul Patch
2009	C. J. Box	Blue Heaven	Winner	^[5]
	Karin Alvtegen	Missing	Shortlist	^[6]
	Robert Ferrigno	Sins of the Assassin
	Declan Hughes	The Price of Blood
	Morag Joss	The Night Following
	Lisa Lutz	Curse of the Spellmans

Year	Author	Shortlist Work	Result	Ref
2010	John Hart	The Last Child	Winner	^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
	Charlie Huston	Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death	Shortlist
	Jo Nesbo	Nemesis
	Tim Gautreaux	The Missing
	Kathleen George	The Odds
	Malla Nunn	A Beautiful Place to Die
2011	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist	Winner	^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
	Harlan Coben	Caught	Shortlist
	Tom Franklin	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
	Tana French	Faithful Place
	Laura Lippman	I'd Know You Anywhere
	Timothy Hallinan	The Queen of Patpong
2012	Mo Hayder	Gone	Winner	^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]
	Ace Atkins	The Ranger	Shortlist	^[18]
	Keigo Higashino	The Devotion of Suspect X
	Anne Holt	1222
	Philip Kerr	Field Gray
2013	Dennis Lehane	Live by Night	Winner	^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]
	Walter Mosley	All I Did Was Shoot My Man	Shortlist
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl: A Novel
	Jesse Kellerman	Potboiler
	Al Lamanda	Sunset
	Lyndsay Faye	The Gods of Gotham
	Ace Atkins	The Lost Ones
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace	Winner	^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]
	Thomas H. Cook	Sandrine’s Case	Shortlist	^[27]
	Matt Haig	The Humans
	Louise Penny	How the Light Gets In
	Ian Rankin	Standing in Another Man’s Grave
	Lori Roy	Until She Comes Home
2015	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes	Winner	^[28]^[29]^[30]
	Wiley Cash	This Dark Road to Mercy	Shortlist	^[29]
	Mo Hayder	Wolf
	Stuart Neville	The Final Silence
	Ian Rankin	Saints of the Shadow Bible
	Karin Slaughter	Coptown
2016	Lori Roy	Let Me Die in His Footsteps	Winner	^[31]^[32]
	M.J. Carter	The Strangler Vine	Shortlist
	Philip Kerr	The Lady from Zagreb
	Michael Robotham	Life or Death
	Duane Swierczynski	Canary
	David C. Taylor	Night Life
2017	Noah Hawley	Before the Fall	Winner	^[33]^[34]^[35]
	Alafair Burke	The Ex	Shortlist
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Where It Hurts
	Lyndsay Faye	Jane Steele
	Alison Gaylin	What Remains of Me
2018	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird	Winner	^[36]^[37]^[38]
	Kathleen Kent	The Dime	Shortlist
	Philip Kerr	Prussian Blue
	Abir Mukherjee	A Rising Man
	Hannah Tinti	The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
2019	Walter Mosley	Down the River Unto the Sea	Winner	^[39]^[40]^[41]
	Catherine Ryan Howard	The Liar's Girl	Shortlist	^[42]
	Mike Lawson	House Witness
	Victor Methos	A Gambler's Jury
	Lawrence Osborne	Only to Sleep
	Deanna Raybourn	A Treacherous Curse

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref
2020	Elly Griffiths	The Stranger Diaries	Winner	^[43]^[44]^[45]
	Barbara Bourland	Fake Like Me	Shortlist	^[46]^[44]^[45]
	Peter Heller	The River
	Abir Mukherjee	Smoke and Ashes
	Michael Robotham	Good Girl, Bad Girl
2021	Deepa Anappara	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line	Winner	^[47]^[48]^[49]
	Caroline B. Cooney	Before She Was Helen	Shortlist	^[50]^[48]^[49]
	Richard Osman	The Thursday Murder Club
	Ivy Pochoda	These Women
	Kwei Quartey	The Missing American
	Heather Young	The Distant Dead
2022	James Kestrel	Five Decembers	Winner	^[51]^[52]^[53]
	Rhys Bowen	The Venice Sketchbook	Shortlist	^[54]^[52]^[53]
	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears
	Will Leitch	How Lucky
	Kat Rosenfield	No One Will Miss Her
2023	Danya Kukafka	Notes on an Execution	Winner	^[55]
	John Darnielle	Devil House	Shortlist	^[56]
	Gabino Iglesias	The Devil Takes You Home
	Nita Prose	The Maid
	Kellye Garrett	Like a Sister
	Chuck Hogan	Gangland