# Anthony Award for Best Novel

The Anthony Award for Best Novel, established in 1986, is an annual award presented as part of the Anthony Awards on behalf of Mystery Writers of America.

## Recipients

Award winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1986 | Sue Grafton | B Is for Burglar | Winner |
| 1986 | Sarah Caudwell | The Shortest Way to Hades | Finalist |
| 1986 | John D. MacDonald | The Lonely Silver Rain | Finalist |
| 1986 | Charlotte MacLeod | The Plain Old Man | Finalist |
| 1986 | Sara Paretsky | Killing Orders | Finalist |
| 1987 | Sue Grafton | C Is for Corpse | Winner |
| 1987 | Lawrence Block | When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | Finalist |
| 1987 | John Lutz | Tropical Heat | Finalist |
| 1987 | Nancy Pickard | No Body | Finalist |
| 1987 | Jonathan Valin | Life’s Work | Finalist |
| 1988 | Tony Hillerman | Skinwalkers | Winner |
| 1988 | Linda Barnes | A Trouble of Fools | Finalist |
| 1988 | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones | Finalist |
| 1988 | Elizabeth Peters | Trojan Gold | Finalist |
| 1988 | Nancy Pickard | Marriage is Murder | Finalist |
| 1989 | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | Winner |
| 1989 | Dorothy Cannell | The Widow’s Club | Finalist |
| 1989 | Sue Grafton | E Is for Evidence | Finalist |
| 1989 | Tony Hillerman | Thief of Time | Finalist |
| 1989 | Sara Paretsky | Blood Shot | Finalist |
| 1989 | Nancy Pickard | Dead Crazy | Finalist |
| 1989 | Bill Pronzini | Shackles | Finalist |
| 1989 | Les Roberts | Pepper Pike | Finalist |
| 1990 | Sarah Caudwell | The Sirens Sang of Murder | Winner |
| 1990 | Susan Dunlap | Pious Deception | Finalist |
| 1990 | Carolyn G. Hart | A Little Class on Murder | Finalist |
| 1990 | Margaret Maron | Corpus Christmas | Finalist |
| 1991 | Sue Grafton | G Is for Gumshoe | Winner |
| 1991 | Lawrence Block | A Ticket to the Boneyard | Finalist |
| 1991 | Lia Matera | The Good Fight | Finalist |
| 1991 | Sharyn McCrumb | If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O | Finalist |
| 1991 | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning | Finalist |
| 1992 | Peter Lovesey | The Last Detective | Winner |
| 1992 | Susan Dunlap | Rogue Wave | Finalist |
| 1992 | Linda Grant | Love Nor Money | Finalist |
| 1992 | J. A. Jance | Hour of the Hunter | Finalist |
| 1992 | Nancy Pickard | I.O.U. | Finalist |
| 1992 | Marilyn Wallace | A Single Stone | Finalist |
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger’s Daughter | Winner |
| 1993 | Robert Crais | Lullaby Town | Finalist |
| 1993 | John Dunning | Booked To Die | Finalist |
| 1993 | Carolyn G. Hart | Southern Ghost | Finalist |
| 1993 | Sharyn McCrumb | The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter | Finalist |
| 1994 | Marcia Muller | Wolf in the Shadows | Winner |
| 1994 | Michael Connelly | The Black Ice | Finalist |
| 1994 | Earl Emerson | Morons and Madmen | Finalist |
| 1994 | Joan Hess | O Little Town of Maggody | Finalist |
| 1994 | Tony Hillerman | Sacred Clowns | Finalist |
| 1994 | Janet LaPierre | Old Enemies | Finalist |
| 1994 | Margaret Maron | Southern Discomfort | Finalist |
| 1994 | Kathy Hogan Trocheck | To Live and Die in Dixie | Finalist |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | Finalist |
| 1994 | Charlene Weir | Consider the Crows | Finalist |
| 1995 | Sharyn McCrumb | She Walks These Hills | Winner |
| 1995 | Michael Connelly | The Concrete Blonde | Finalist |
| 1995 | Lionel Davidson | Kolymsky Heights | Finalist |
| 1995 | Janet Evanovich | One for the Money | Finalist |
| 1995 | Sue Grafton | K Is for Killer | Finalist |
| 1995 | Bayta Gur | Murder on the Kibbutz | Finalist |
| 1995 | Reginald Hill | Pictures of Perfection | Finalist |
| 1995 | Lynda La Plante | Cold Shoulder | Finalist |
| 1995 | John Lescroart | The 13th Juror | Finalist |
| 1995 | Val McDermid | Crack Down | Finalist |
| 1995 | Walter Mosley | Black Betty | Finalist |
| 1995 | Derek Raymond | Not Till the Red Fog Rises | Finalist |
| 1995 | Janwillem van de Wetering | Just a Corpse at Twilight | Finalist |
| 1996 | Mary Willis Walker | Under the Beetle's Cellar | Winner |
| 1996 | Michael Connelly | The Last Coyote | Finalist |
| 1996 | Barbara D’Amato | Hard Christmas | Finalist |
| 1996 | Andrew Klavan | True Crime | Finalist |
| 1996 | Bill Pronzini | Blue Lonesome | Finalist |
| 1997 | Michael Connelly | The Poet | Winner |
| 1997 | Nevada Barr | Firestorm | Finalist |
| 1997 | Linda Grant | Lethal Genes | Finalist |
| 1997 | Margaret Lawrence | Hearts and Bones | Finalist |
| 1997 | Alan Russell | Multiple Wounds | Finalist |
| 1998 | S. J. Rozan | No Colder Place | Winner |
| 1998 | Anthony Bruno | Devil’s Food | Finalist |
| 1998 | Earl Emerson | Deception Pass | Finalist |
| 1998 | Arturo Perez-Reverte | The Club Dumas | Finalist |
| 1998 | James Sallis | Eye of the Cricket | Finalist |
| 1999 | Michael Connelly | Blood Work | Winner |
| 1999 | Nevada Barr | Blind Descent | Finalist |
| 1999 | Reginald Hill | On Beulah Height | Finalist |
| 1999 | Dennis Lehane | Gone, Baby, Gone | Finalist |
| 1999 | Aileen Schumacher | Framework for Death | Finalist |
| 2000 | Peter Robinson | In a Dry Season | Winner |
| 2000 | Rennie Airth | River of Darkness | Finalist |
| 2000 | Jan Burke | Bones | Finalist |
| 2000 | Robert Crais | L.A. Requiem | Finalist |
| 2000 | Janet Evanovich | High Five | Finalist |
| 2001 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution | Winner |
| 2001 | Nevada Barr | Deep South | Finalist |
| 2001 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Bottoms | Finalist |
| 2001 | Marcia Muller | Listen to the Silence | Finalist |
| 2001 | Elizabeth Peters | He Shall Thunder in the Sky | Finalist |
| 2001 | Charles Todd | Legacy of the Dead | Finalist |
| 2002 | Dennis Lehane | Mystic River | Winner |
| 2002 | Jan Burke | Flight | Finalist |
| 2002 | Harlan Coben | Tell No One | Finalist |
| 2002 | Rick Riordan | The Devil Went Down to Austin | Finalist |
| 2002 | S. J. Rozan | Reflecting the Sky | Finalist |
| 2003 | Michael Connelly | City of Bones | Winner |
| 2003 | Cara Black | Murder in the Sentier | Finalist |
| 2003 | Steve Hamilton | North of Nowhere | Finalist |
| 2003 | George Pelecanos | Hell to Pay | Finalist |
| 2003 | S. J. Rozan | Winter and Night | Finalist |
| 2004 | Laura Lippman | Every Secret Thing | Winner |
| 2004 | Giles Blunt | The Delicate Storm | Finalist |
| 2004 | Steve Hamilton | Blood Is the Sky | Finalist |
| 2004 | Dennis Lehane | Shutter Island | Finalist |
| 2004 | Peter Robinson | Close to Home | Finalist |
| 2005 | William Kent Krueger | Blood Hollow | Winner |
| 2005 | Ken Bruen | The Killing of the Tinkers | Finalist |
| 2005 | John Katzenbach | The Madman's Tale | Finalist |
| 2005 | Laura Lippman | By a Spider’s Thread | Finalist |
| 2005 | T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl | Finalist |
| 2005 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Out of the Deep I Cry | Finalist |
| 2006 | William Kent Krueger | Mercy Falls | Winner |
| 2006 | Jan Burke | Bloodlines | Finalist |
| 2006 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer | Finalist |
| 2006 | Thomas H. Cook | Red Leaves | Finalist |
| 2006 | Laura Lippman | To the Power of Three | Finalist |
| 2007 | Laura Lippman | No Good Deeds | Winner |
| 2007 | Jan Burke | Kidnapped | Finalist |
| 2007 | Denise Mina | The Dead Hour | Finalist |
| 2007 | Nancy Pickard | The Virgin of Small Plains | Finalist |
| 2007 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | All Mortal Flesh | Finalist |
| 2008 | Laura Lippman | What the Dead Know | Winner |
| 2008 | James Lee Burke | The Tin Roof Blowdown | Finalist |
| 2008 | Lee Child | Bad Luck and Trouble | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert Crais | The Watchman | Finalist |
| 2008 | William Kent Krueger | Thunder Bay | Finalist |
| 2009 | Michael Connelly | The Brass Verdict | Winner |
| 2009 | Sean Chercover | Trigger City | Finalist |
| 2009 | William Kent Krueger | Red Knife | Finalist |
| 2009 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Finalist |
| 2009 | Louise Penny | The Cruelest Month | Finalist |
| 2010 | Louise Penny | The Brutal Telling | Winner |
| 2010 | John Hart | The Last Child | Finalist |
| 2010 | Charlie Huston | The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death | Finalist |
| 2010 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl Who Played with Fire | Finalist |
| 2010 | S. J. Rozan | The Shanghai Moon | Finalist |
| 2011 | Louise Penny | Bury Your Dead | Winner |
| 2011 | Tom Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Finalist |
| 2011 | Tana French | Faithful Place | Finalist |
| 2011 | Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist | Finalist |
| 2011 | Laura Lippman | I’d Know You Anywhere | Finalist |
| 2012 | Louise Penny | A Trick of the Light | Winner |
| 2012 | Megan Abbott | The End of Everything | Finalist |
| 2012 | Reed Farrel Coleman | Hurt Machine | Finalist |
| 2012 | Michael Connelly | The Drop | Finalist |
| 2012 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | One Was a Soldier | Finalist |
| 2013 | Louise Penny | The Beautiful Mystery | Winner |
| 2013 | Megan Abbott | Dare Me | Finalist |
| 2013 | Sean Chercover | Trinity Game | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl | Finalist |
| 2013 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | The Other Woman | Finalist |
| 2014 | William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace | Winner |
| 2014 | Robert Crais | Suspect | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sara J. Henry | A Cold and Lonely Place | Finalist |
| 2014 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | The Wrong Girl | Finalist |
| 2014 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Through the Evil Days | Finalist |
| 2015 | Laura Lippman | After I’m Gone | Winner |
| 2015 | Joe Clifford | Lamentation | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tana French | The Secret Place | Finalist |
| 2015 | Louise Penny | The Long Way Home | Finalist |
| 2015 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Truth Be Told | Finalist |
| 2016 | Chris Holm | The Killing Kind | Winner |
| 2016 | Matt Coyle | Night Tremors | Finalist |
| 2016 | Catriona McPherson | The Child Garden | Finalist |
| 2016 | Louise Penny | The Nature of the Beast | Finalist |
| 2016 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | What You See | Finalist |
| 2017 | Louise Penny | A Great Reckoning | Winner |
| 2017 | Megan Abbott | You Will Know Me | Finalist |
| 2017 | Reed Farrel Coleman | Where It Hurts | Finalist |
| 2017 | Chris Holm | Red Right Hand | Finalist |
| 2017 | Laura Lippman | Wilde Lake | Finalist |
| 2018 | Attica Locke | Bluebird, Bluebird | Winner |
| 2018 | Michael Connelly | The Late Show | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthony Horowitz | Magpie Murders | Finalist |
| 2018 | Louise Penny | Glass Houses | Finalist |
| 2018 | Don Winslow | The Force | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lou Berney | November Road | Winner |
| 2019 | Megan Abbott | Give Me Your Hand | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jennifer Hillier | Jar of Hearts | Finalist |
| 2019 | Laura Lippman | Sunburn | Finalist |
| 2019 | Alex Segura | Blackout | Finalist |
| 2020 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | The Murder List | Winner |
| 2020 | Steph Cha | Your House Will Pay | Finalist |
| 2020 | Rachel Howzell Hall | They All Fall Down | Finalist |
| 2020 | Laura Lippman | Lady in the Lake | Finalist |
| 2020 | Alex Segura | Miami Midnight | Finalist |
| 2021 | S. A. Cosby | Blacktop Wasteland | Winner |
| 2021 | Tracy Clark | What You Don’t See | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jennifer Hillier | Little Secrets | Finalist |
| 2021 | Rachel Howzell Hall | And Now She’s Gone | Finalist |
| 2021 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | The First To Lie | Finalist |
| 2022 | S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | Winner |
| 2022 | Tracy Clark | Runner | Finalist |
| 2022 | Alison Gaylin | The Collective | Finalist |
| 2022 | Rachel Howzell Hall | These Toxic Things | Finalist |
| 2022 | Naomi Hirahara | Clark and Division | Finalist |
| 2023 | Kellye Garrett | Like a Sister | Winner |
| 2023 | Gabino Iglesias | The Devil Takes You Home | Finalist |
| 2023 | Richard Osman | The Bullet That Missed | Finalist |
| 2023 | Louise Penny | A World of Curiosities | Finalist |
| 2023 | Nita Prose | The Maid | Finalist |
| 2023 | Alex Segura | Secret Identity | Finalist |