The Big Empty
Winner · Best Novel
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2026
Dead Money
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Backwater
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Blood in the Water
Winner · Best Juvenile
Under the Same Stars
Winner · Best Young Adult
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
All This Could Be Yours
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Fagin the Thief
Finalist · Best Novel
Hard Town
Finalist · Best Novel
Presumed Guilty
Finalist · Best Novel
The Dream Hotel
Finalist · Best Novel
Wild Dark Shore
Finalist · Best Novel
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 35 honored in 2026
2025
The In Crowd
Winner · Best Novel
Holy City
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Paris Widow
Winner · Best Paperback Original
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key
Winner · Best Juvenile
49 Miles Alone
Winner · Best Young Adult
James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
The Mystery Writers
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Listen for the Lie
Finalist · Best Novel
My Favorite Scar
Finalist · Best Novel
Rough Trade
Finalist · Best Novel
The God of the Woods
Finalist · Best Novel
The Tainted Cup
Finalist · Best Novel
Things Don't Break on Their Own
Finalist · Best Novel
- See all 36 honored in 2025
2024
Flags on the Bayou
Winner · Best Novel
The Peacock and the Sparrow
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto
Winner · Best Juvenile
Girl Forgotten
Winner · Best Young Adult
Love Me Fierce In Danger - The Life of James Ellroy
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Play the Fool
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
All the Sinners Bleed
Finalist · Best Novel
Bright Young Women
Finalist · Best Novel
Crook Manifesto
Finalist · Best Novel
The River We Remember
Finalist · Best Novel
Murder by Degrees
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Small Town Sins
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 35 honored in 2024
2023
Notes on an Execution
Winner · Best Novel
Don't Know Tough
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Or Else
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Red Palace
Winner · Best Young Adult
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
A Dreadful Splendor
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Devil House
Finalist · Best Novel
Gangland
Finalist · Best Novel
Like a Sister
Finalist · Best Novel
The Devil Takes You Home
Finalist · Best Novel
The Maid
Finalist · Best Novel
Jackal
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 33 honored in 2023
2022
Five Decembers
Winner · Best Novel
Deer Season
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Bobby March Will Live Forever
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Concealed
Winner · Best Juvenile
Firekeeper's Daughter
Winner · Best Young Adult
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Clark and Division
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
How Lucky
Finalist · Best Novel
No One Will Miss Her
Finalist · Best Novel
Razorblade Tears
Finalist · Best Novel
The Venice Sketchbook
Finalist · Best Novel
Never Saw Me Coming
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Suburban Dicks
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 34 honored in 2022
2021
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Winner · Best Novel
Please See Us
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
When No One is Watching
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Premeditated Myrtle
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Companion
Winner · Best Young Adult
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Before She Was Helen
Finalist · Best Novel
The Distant Dead
Finalist · Best Novel
These Women
Finalist · Best Novel
Thursday Murder Club
Finalist · Best Novel
The Deep, Deep Snow
Finalist · Best Paperback Original
The Keeper
Finalist · Best Paperback Original
- See all 24 honored in 2021
2020
The Stranger Diaries
Winner · Best Novel
Miracle Creek
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Hotel Neversink
Winner · Best Paperback Original
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
Winner · Best Juvenile
Catfishing on CatNet
Winner · Best Young Adult
Hitchcock and the Censors
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
The Night Visitors
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Fake Like Me
Finalist · Best Novel
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Finalist · Best Novel
Smoke and Ashes
Finalist · Best Novel
The River
Finalist · Best Novel
The Good Detective
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Secrets We Kept
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 23 honored in 2020
2019
Down the River Unto the Sea
Winner · Best Novel
Bearskin
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
If I Die Tonight
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Otherwood
Winner · Best Juvenile
Sadie
Winner · Best Young Adult
2018
Bluebird, Bluebird
Winner · Best Novel
She Rides Shotgun
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Unseeing
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Vanished!
Winner · Best Juvenile
Long Way Down
Winner · Best Young Adult
2017
Before the Fall
Winner · Best Novel
Under the Harrow
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Rain Dogs
Winner · Best Paperback Original
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Winner · Best Fact Crime
OCDaniel
Winner · Best Juvenile
Girl in the Blue Coat
Winner · Best Young Adult
2016
Let Me Die in His Footsteps
Winner · Best Novel
The Sympathizer
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Long and Faraway Gone
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy
Winner · Best Juvenile
A Madness So Discreet
Winner · Best Young Adult
2015
Mr. Mercedes
Winner · Best Novel
Dry Bones in the Valley
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Secret History of Las Vegas
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Greenglass House
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Art of Secrets
Winner · Best Young Adult
2014
Ordinary Grace
Winner · Best Novel
Red Sparrow
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Wicked Girls
Winner · Best Paperback Original
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Winner · Best Fact Crime
One Came Home
Winner · Best Juvenile
Ketchup Clouds
Winner · Best Young Adult
2013
Live by Night
Winner · Best Novel
The Expats
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Last Policeman: A Novel
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Quick Fix
Winner · Best Juvenile
Code Name Verity
Winner · Best Young Adult
2012
Gone
Winner · Best Novel
Bent Road
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Company Man
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Icefall
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Silence of Murder
Winner · Best Young Adult