# Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel

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.
Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel are listed below.

## Recipients
### 1950s

1950s Best Novel winners :
| 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 |
| 1956 | The Gordons | The Case of the Talking Bug | Shortlist |
| 1956 | Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Shortlist |
| 1957 | Charlotte Armstrong | A Dram of Poison | Winner |
| 1957 | Margot Bennett | The Man Who Didn't Fly | Shortlist |
| 1957 | Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | Shortlist |
| 1958 | Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | Winner |
| 1958 | Bill Ballinger | The Longest Second | Shortlist |
| 1958 | Marjorie Carleton | The Night of the Good Children | Shortlist |
| 1958 | Arthur Upfield | The Bushman Who Came Back | Shortlist |
| 1959 | Stanley Ellin | The Eighth Circle | Winner |
| 1959 | David Alexander | The Madhouse in Washington Square | Shortlist |
| 1959 | Lee Blackstock | The Woman in the Woods (Miss Fenny as Charity Blackstock) | Shortlist |
| 1959 | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | A Gentleman Called | Shortlist |

### 1960s

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

### 1970s

1970s Best Novel winners :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1970 | Dick Francis | Forfeit | Winner |
| 1970 | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Where the Dark Streets Go | Shortlist |
| 1970 | Peter Dickinson | The Old English Peep Show | Shortlist |
| 1970 | Shaun Herron | Miro | Shortlist |
| 1970 | Chester Himes | Blind Man with a Pistol | Shortlist |
| 1970 | Emma Lathen | When in Greece | Shortlist |
| 1971 | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö | The Laughing Policeman | Winner |
| 1971 | Shaun Herron | The Hound and the Fox and the Harper | Shortlist |
| 1971 | Margaret Millar | Beyond this Point Are Monsters | Shortlist |
| 1971 | Patricia Moyes | Many Deadly Returns | Shortlist |
| 1971 | Pat Stadley | Autumn of a Hunter | Shortlist |
| 1971 | Donald E. Westlake | The Hot Rock | Shortlist |
| 1972 | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | Winner |
| 1972 | G. F. Newman | Sir, You Bastard | Shortlist |
| 1972 | Tony Hillerman | The Fly on the Wall | Shortlist |
| 1972 | P. D. James | Shroud for a Nightingale | Shortlist |
| 1972 | Arthur Wise | Who Killed Enoch Powell? | Shortlist |
| 1973 | Warren Kiefer | The Lingala Code | Winner |
| 1973 | John Ball | Five Pieces of Jade | Shortlist |
| 1973 | Ngaio Marsh | Tied Up in Tinsel | Shortlist |
| 1973 | Hugh C. Rae | The Shooting Gallery | Shortlist |
| 1973 | Martin Cruz Smith | Canto for a Gypsy | Shortlist |
| 1974 | Tony Hillerman | Dance Hall of the Dead | Winner |
| 1974 | Victor Canning | The Rainbird Pattern | Shortlist |
| 1974 | Francis Clifford | Amigo, Amigo | Shortlist |
| 1974 | P. D. James | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Shortlist |
| 1974 | Jean Stubbs | Dear Laura | Shortlist |
| 1975 | Jon Cleary | Peter's Pence | Winner |
| 1975 | Malcolm Bosse | The Man Who Loved Zoos | Shortlist |
| 1975 | Francis Clifford | Goodbye and Amen | Shortlist |
| 1975 | Paul Erdman | The Silver Bears | Shortlist |
| 1975 | Andrew Garve | The Lester Affair | Shortlist |
| 1976 | Brian Garfield | Hopscotch | Winner |
| 1976 | Marvin Albert | The Gargoyle Conspiracy | Shortlist |
| 1976 | Maggie Rennert | Operation Alcestic | Shortlist |
| 1976 | Gerald Seymour | Harry's Game | Shortlist |
| 1976 | Ross Thomas | The Money Harvest | Shortlist |
| 1977 | Robert B. Parker | Promised Land | Winner |
| 1977 | Thomas Gifford | The Cavanaugh Quest | Shortlist |
| 1977 | Richard Neely | A Madness of the Heart | Shortlist |
| 1977 | Gerald Seymour | The Glory Boys | Shortlist |
| 1977 | Trevanian | The Main | Shortlist |
| 1978 | William H. Hallahan | Catch Me: Kill Me | Winner |
| 1978 | William McIlvanney | Laidlaw | Shortlist |
| 1978 | Martin Cruz Smith | Nightwing | Shortlist |
| 1979 | Ken Follett | Eye of the Needle | Winner |
| 1979 | John Godey | The Snake | Shortlist |
| 1979 | Tony Hillerman | Listening Woman | Shortlist |
| 1979 | Ruth Rendell | A Sleeping Life | Shortlist |
| 1979 | Jack S. Scott | The Shallow Grave | Shortlist |

### 1980s

1980s Best Novel winners :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1980 | Arthur Maling | The Rheingold Route | Winner |
| 1980 | Robert Barnard | Death of a Mystery Writer | Shortlist |
| 1980 | Frank Parrish | Fire in the Barley | Shortlist |
| 1980 | Ruth Rendell | Make Death Love Me | Shortlist |
| 1980 | C. P. Snow | A Coat of Varnish | Shortlist |
| 1981 | Dick Francis | Whip Hand | Winner |
| 1981 | Robert Barnard | Death of a Literary Widow | Shortlist |
| 1981 | B. M. Gill | Death Drop | Shortlist |
| 1981 | Reginald Hill | The Spy's Wife | Shortlist |
| 1981 | A. J. Quinnell | Man on Fire | Shortlist |
| 1982 | William Bayer | Peregrine | Winner |
| 1982 | Ted Allbeury | The Other Side of Silence | Shortlist |
| 1982 | Robert Barnard | Death in a Cold Climate | Shortlist |
| 1982 | Liza Cody | Dupe | Shortlist |
| 1982 | Robert Littell | The Amateur | Shortlist |
| 1982 | Patrick McGinley | Bogmail | Shortlist |
| 1983 | Rick Boyer | Billingsgate Shoal | Winner |
| 1983 | Lawrence Block | Eight Million Ways To Die | Shortlist |
| 1983 | Elmore Leonard | Split Images | Shortlist |
| 1983 | Seymour Shubin | The Captain | Shortlist |
| 1983 | Donald E. Westlake | Kahawa | Shortlist |
| 1984 | Elmore Leonard | La Brava | Winner |
| 1984 | Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | Shortlist |
| 1984 | John Le Carré | The Little Drummer Girl | Shortlist |
| 1984 | Christopher Leach | Texas Station | Shortlist |
| 1984 | William McIlvanney | The Papers of Tony Veitch | Shortlist |
| 1985 | Ross Thomas | Briarpatch | Winner |
| 1985 | Michael Gilbert | The Black Seraphim | Shortlist |
| 1985 | B. M. Gill | The Twelfth Juror | Shortlist |
| 1985 | Jane Langton | Emily Dickinson Is Dead | Shortlist |
| 1985 | William Pearson | Chessplayer | Shortlist |
| 1986 | L. R. Wright | The Suspect | Winner |
| 1986 | Paul Auster | City of Glass: The New York Trilogy | Shortlist |
| 1986 | Simon Brett | A Shock to the System | Shortlist |
| 1986 | Ruth Rendell | An Unkindness of Ravens | Shortlist |
| 1986 | Ruth Rendell | The Tree of Hands | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Winner |
| 1987 | Brian Freemantle | The Blind Run^ | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Joe Gores | Come Morning | Shortlist |
| 1987 | P. D. James | A Taste for Death | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Roger L. Simon | The Straight Man | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones | Winner |
| 1988 | Linda Barnes | A Trouble of Fools | Shortlist |
| 1988 | B. M. Gill | Nursery Crimes | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Peter Lovesey | Rough Cider | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Charlotte MacLeod | The Corpse in Oozak's Pond | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | A Cold Red Sunrise | Winner |
| 1989 | K. C. Constantine | Joey's Case | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Thomas H. Cook | Sacrificial Ground | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Tony Hillerman | A Thief of Time | Shortlist |
| 1989 | David L. Lindsey | In the Lake of the Moon | Shortlist |

### 1990s

1990s Best Novel winners :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1990 | James Lee Burke | Black Cherry Blues | Winner |
| 1990 | Frances Fyfield | A Question of Guilt | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Bartholomew Gill | Death of a Joyce Scholar | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Andrew Coburn | Goldilocks | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Eugene Izzi | The Booster | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning | Winner |
| 1991 | Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence | Shortlist |
| 1991 | R.D. Zimmerman | Deadfall In Berlin | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Jay Brandon | Fade the Heat | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Loren Estleman | Whiskey River | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Winner |
| 1992 | Andrew Klavan | Don't Say a Word | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Nancy Pickard | I.O.U. | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Stuart Woods | Palindrome | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Lia Matera | Prior Convictions | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter | Winner |
| 1993 | Joe Gores | 32 Cadillacs | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Liza Cody | Backhand | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Kem Nunn | Pomona Queen | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Walter Mosley | White Butterfly | Shortlist |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | Winner |
| 1994 | Robert Crais | Free Fall | Shortlist |
| 1994 | Peter Hoeg | Smilla's Sense Of Snow | Shortlist |
| 1994 | Gerald Seymour | The Journeyman Tailor | Shortlist |
| 1994 | Marcia Muller | Wolf in the Shadows | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Mary Willis Walker | The Red Scream | Winner |
| 1995 | Lawrence Block | A Long Line of Dead Men | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Peter Abrahams | Lights Out | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Edna Buchanan | Miami, It's Murder | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Peter Robinson | Wednesday's Child | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Dick Francis | Come to Grief | Winner |
| 1996 | John Dunning | The Bookman's Wake | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Edward Marston | The Roaring Boy | Shortlist |
| 1996 | John Katzenbach | The Shadow Man | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Peter Lovesey | The Summons | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair | Winner |
| 1997 | Margaret Lawrence | Hearts and Bones | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Carolyn Wheat | Mean Streak | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Anne Perry | Pentecost Alley | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Laurie R. King | With Child | Shortlist |
| 1998 | James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose | Winner |
| 1998 | Bill Pronzini | A Wasteland of Strangers | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Ian Rankin | Black and Blue | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Deborah Crombie | Dreaming of the Bones | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Mark T. Sullivan | The Purification Ceremony | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Robert Clark | Mr. White's Confession | Winner |
| 1999 | J. Wallis Martin | A Likeness in Stone | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Robert Goddard | Beyond Recall | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Michael Connelly | Blood Work | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Domenic Stansberry | The Last Days of Il Duce | Shortlist |

### 2000s

2000s Best Novel winners :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2000 | Jan Burke | Bones | Winner |
| 2000 | Rennie Airth | River of Darkness | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Robert Crais | L.A. Requiem | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Stephen Greenleaf | Strawberry Sunday | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Peter Robinson | In a Dry Season | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Bottoms | Winner |
| 2001 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution | Shortlist |
| 2001 | T. Jefferson Parker | Red Light | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Nancy Pickard | The Whole Truth | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | A Dangerous Road | Shortlist |
| 2002 | T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe | Winner |
| 2002 | D. W. Buffa | The Judgment | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Harlan Coben | Tell No One | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Evan Hunter | Money, Money, Money | Shortlist |
| 2002 | S. J. Rozan | Reflecting the Sky | Shortlist |
| 2003 | S. J. Rozan | Winter and Night | Winner |
| 2003 | Mary Kay Andrews | Savannah Blues | Shortlist |
| 2003 | James Lee Burke | Jolie Blon's Bounce | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Michael Connelly | City of Bones | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Manda Scott | No Good Deed | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Ian Rankin | Resurrection Men | Winner |
| 2004 | Ken Bruen | The Guards | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Michael Connelly | Lost Light | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Natsuo Kirino | Out | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | Shortlist |
| 2005 | T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl | Winner |
| 2005 | Laura Lippman | By a Spider's Thread | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Chris Mooney | Remembering Sarah | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Janet Quin-Harkin | Evan's Gate | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Out of the Deep I Cry | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Jess Walter | Citizen Vince | Winner |
| 2006 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Thomas H. Cook | Red Leaves | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Tess Gerritsen | Vanish | Shortlist |
| 2006 | George Pelecanos | Drama City | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Jason Goodwin | The Janissary Tree | Winner |
| 2007 | Louis Bayard | The Pale Blue Eye | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Joanne Harris | Gentlemen & Players | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Denise Mina | The Dead Hour: Time Only Matters When It's Running Out | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Nancy Pickard | The Virgin of Small Plains | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Olen Steinhauer | Liberation Movements | Shortlist |
| 2008 | John Hart | Down River | Winner |
| 2008 | John Banville | Christine Falls | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Ken Bruen | Priest | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Reed Coleman | Soul Patch | Shortlist |
| 2009 | C. J. Box | Blue Heaven | Winner |
| 2009 | Karin Alvtegen | Missing | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Robert Ferrigno | Sins of the Assassin | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Declan Hughes | The Price of Blood | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Morag Joss | The Night Following | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Lisa Lutz | Curse of the Spellmans | Shortlist |

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

2020s Best Novel winners :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Elly Griffiths | The Stranger Diaries | Winner |
| 2020 | Barbara Bourland | Fake Like Me | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Peter Heller | The River | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Abir Mukherjee | Smoke and Ashes | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Michael Robotham | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Deepa Anappara | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Winner |
| 2021 | Caroline B. Cooney | Before She Was Helen | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Richard Osman | The Thursday Murder Club | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Ivy Pochoda | These Women | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Kwei Quartey | The Missing American | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Heather Young | The Distant Dead | Shortlist |
| 2022 | James Kestrel | Five Decembers | Winner |
| 2022 | Rhys Bowen | The Venice Sketchbook | Shortlist |
| 2022 | S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Will Leitch | How Lucky | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Kat Rosenfield | No One Will Miss Her | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Danya Kukafka | Notes on an Execution | Winner |
| 2023 | John Darnielle | Devil House | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Gabino Iglesias | The Devil Takes You Home | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Nita Prose | The Maid | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Kellye Garrett | Like a Sister | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Chuck Hogan | Gangland | Shortlist |
| 2024 | James Lee Burke | Flags on the Bayou | Winner |
| 2024 | S. A. Cosby | All the Sinners Bleed | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Jennifer Cody Epstein | The Mad Women of Paris | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Jessica Knoll | Bright Young Women | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Michael Koryta | An Honest Man | Shortlist |
| 2024 | William Kent Krueger | The River We Remember | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Colson Whitehead | Crook Manifesto | Shortlist |