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
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 1954 | Beat Not the Bones | Winner | ||
| 1955 | Winner | |||
| 1956 | Beast in View | Winner | ||
| 1956 | Shortlist | |||
| 1956 | Shortlist | |||
| 1957 | Winner | |||
| 1957 | Shortlist | |||
| 1957 | and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | Shortlist | |
| 1958 | Room to Swing | Winner | ||
| 1958 | Shortlist | |||
| 1958 | Shortlist | |||
| 1958 | Shortlist | |||
| 1959 | Winner | |||
| 1959 | Shortlist | |||
| 1959 | Shortlist | |||
| 1959 | Shortlist |
1960s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 1960 | Winner | |||
| 1960 | Shortlist | |||
| 1961 | Winner | |||
| 1961 | Shortlist | |||
| 1961 | Shortlist | |||
| 1961 | Watcher in the Shadows | Shortlist | ||
| 1962 | Gideon's Fire | Winner | ||
| 1962 | Nightmare | Shortlist | ||
| 1962 | Shortlist | |||
| 1962 | Shortlist | |||
| 1962 | Shortlist | |||
| 1963 | Death and the Joyful Woman | Winner | ||
| 1963 | Shortlist | |||
| 1963 | Seance | Shortlist | ||
| 1963 | Shortlist | |||
| 1963 | Knave of Hearts | Shortlist | ||
| 1963 | Shortlist | |||
| 1964 | Winner | |||
| 1964 | Shortlist | |||
| 1964 | Grieve for the Past | Shortlist | ||
| 1964 | Shortlist | |||
| 1964 | Shortlist | |||
| 1965 | Winner | |||
| 1965 | Shortlist | |||
| 1965 | Shortlist | |||
| 1965 | This Rough Magic | Shortlist | ||
| 1966 | Winner | |||
| 1966 | Shortlist | |||
| 1966 | Funeral in Berlin | Shortlist | ||
| 1966 | Shortlist | |||
| 1966 | Shortlist | |||
| 1966 | Airs Above the Ground | Shortlist | ||
| 1967 | King of the Rainy Country | Winner | ||
| 1967 | Odds Against | Shortlist | ||
| 1967 | Killer Dolphin | Shortlist | ||
| 1967 | Shortlist | |||
| 1968 | God Save the Mark | Winner | ||
| 1968 | Shortlist | |||
| 1968 | Lemon in the Basket | Shortlist | ||
| 1968 | Shortlist | |||
| 1968 | Flying Finish | Shortlist | ||
| 1968 | Shortlist | |||
| 1968 | Shortlist | |||
| 1969 | Winner | |||
| 1969 | Picture Miss Seeton | Shortlist | ||
| 1969 | and Jerome Ross | God Speed the Night | Shortlist | |
| 1969 | Shortlist | |||
| 1969 | Shortlist | |||
| 1969 | Blood Sport | Shortlist |
1970s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 1970 | Forfeit | Winner | ||
| 1970 | Where the Dark Streets Go | Shortlist | ||
| 1970 | Shortlist | |||
| 1970 | Miro | Shortlist | ||
| 1970 | Blind Man with a Pistol | Shortlist | ||
| 1970 | When in Greece | Shortlist | ||
| 1971 | and Per Wahlöö | Winner | ||
| 1971 | Shortlist | |||
| 1971 | Beyond this Point Are Monsters | Shortlist | ||
| 1971 | Many Deadly Returns | Shortlist | ||
| 1971 | Autumn of a Hunter | Shortlist | ||
| 1971 | Shortlist | |||
| 1972 | Winner | |||
| 1972 | Sir, You Bastard | Shortlist | ||
| 1972 | Shortlist | |||
| 1972 | Shroud for a Nightingale | Shortlist | ||
| 1972 | Who Killed Enoch Powell? | Shortlist | ||
| 1973 | Winner | |||
| 1973 | Five Pieces of Jade | Shortlist | ||
| 1973 | Tied Up in Tinsel | Shortlist | ||
| 1973 | Shortlist | |||
| 1973 | Canto for a Gypsy | Shortlist | ||
| 1974 | Dance Hall of the Dead | Winner | ||
| 1974 | Shortlist | |||
| 1974 | Amigo, Amigo | Shortlist | ||
| 1974 | Shortlist | |||
| 1974 | Dear Laura | Shortlist | ||
| 1975 | Peter's Pence | Winner | ||
| 1975 | Shortlist | |||
| 1975 | Goodbye and Amen | Shortlist | ||
| 1975 | Shortlist | |||
| 1975 | Shortlist | |||
| 1976 | Hopscotch | Winner | ||
| 1976 | Shortlist | |||
| 1976 | Operation Alcestic | Shortlist | ||
| 1976 | Harry's Game | Shortlist | ||
| 1976 | Shortlist | |||
| 1977 | Promised Land | Winner | ||
| 1977 | Shortlist | |||
| 1977 | Shortlist | |||
| 1977 | Shortlist | |||
| 1977 | Trevanian | Shortlist | ||
| 1978 | Catch Me: Kill Me | Winner | ||
| 1978 | Laidlaw | Shortlist | ||
| 1978 | Nightwing | Shortlist | ||
| 1979 | Eye of the Needle | Winner | ||
| 1979 | Shortlist | |||
| 1979 | Listening Woman | Shortlist | ||
| 1979 | Shortlist | |||
| 1979 | Shortlist |
1980s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 1980 | ' | Winner | ||
| 1980 | Death of a Mystery Writer | Shortlist | ||
| 1980 | Fire in the Barley | Shortlist | ||
| 1980 | Make Death Love Me | Shortlist | ||
| 1980 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1981 | Whip Hand | Winner | ||
| 1981 | Death of a Literary Widow | Shortlist | ||
| 1981 | Death Drop | Shortlist | ||
| 1981 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1981 | Man on Fire | Shortlist | ||
| 1982 | Peregrine | Winner | ||
| 1982 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1982 | Death in a Cold Climate | Shortlist | ||
| 1982 | Dupe | Shortlist | ||
| 1982 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1982 | Bogmail | Shortlist | ||
| 1983 | Billingsgate Shoal | Winner | ||
| 1983 | Eight Million Ways To Die | Shortlist | ||
| 1983 | Split Images | Shortlist | ||
| 1983 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1983 | Kahawa | Shortlist | ||
| 1984 | La Brava | Winner | ||
| 1984 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1984 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1984 | Texas Station | Shortlist | ||
| 1984 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1985 | Briarpatch | Winner | ||
| 1985 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1985 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1985 | Emily Dickinson Is Dead | Shortlist | ||
| 1985 | Chessplayer | Shortlist | ||
| 1986 | ' | Winner | ||
| 1986 | City of Glass: The New York Trilogy | Shortlist | ||
| 1986 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1986 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1986 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1987 | ' | Winner | ||
| 1987 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1987 | Come Morning | Shortlist | ||
| 1987 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1987 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1988 | Old Bones | Winner | ||
| 1988 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1988 | Nursery Crimes | Shortlist | ||
| 1988 | Rough Cider | Shortlist | ||
| 1988 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 1989 | ' | Winner | ||
| 1989 | Joey's Case | Shortlist | ||
| 1989 | Sacrificial Ground | Shortlist | ||
| 1989 | Shortlist | |||
| 1989 | In the Lake of the Moon | Shortlist |
2000s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 2000 | Bones | Winner | ||
| 2000 | River of Darkness | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | L.A. Requiem | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Strawberry Sunday | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | In a Dry Season | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Winner | |||
| 2001 | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Red Light | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Shortlist | |||
| 2001 | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Silent Joe | Winner | ||
| 2002 | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Tell No One | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Money, Money, Money | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Reflecting the Sky | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Winter and Night | Winner | ||
| 2003 | Savannah Blues | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Jolie Blon's Bounce | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | City of Bones | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | No Good Deed | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Resurrection Men | Winner | ||
| 2004 | Shortlist | |||
| 2004 | Lost Light | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Out | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Maisie Dobbs | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | California Girl | Winner | ||
| 2005 | By a Spider's Thread | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Remembering Sarah | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Evan's Gate | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Out of the Deep I Cry | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Citizen Vince | Winner | ||
| 2006 | Shortlist | |||
| 2006 | Red Leaves | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Vanish | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Drama City | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Winner | |||
| 2007 | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | Gentlemen & Players | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | Shortlist | |||
| 2007 | Liberation Movements | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Down River | Winner | ||
| 2008 | Christine Falls | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Priest | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Shortlist | |||
| 2008 | Soul Patch | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Blue Heaven | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Missing | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Sins of the Assassin | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | Shortlist | |||
| 2009 | Curse of the Spellmans | Shortlist |
2010s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 2010 | Winner | |||
| 2010 | Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Nemesis | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Shortlist | |||
| 2010 | Shortlist | |||
| 2011 | Winner | |||
| 2011 | Caught | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Faithful Place | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | I'd Know You Anywhere | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Shortlist | |||
| 2012 | Gone | Winner | ||
| 2012 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | 1222 | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Field Gray | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Live by Night | Winner | ||
| 2013 | All I Did Was Shoot My Man | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Gone Girl: A Novel | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Potboiler | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Sunset | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Shortlist | |||
| 2013 | Shortlist | |||
| 2014 | Ordinary Grace | Winner | ||
| 2014 | Sandrine’s Case | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Shortlist | |||
| 2014 | How the Light Gets In | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Standing in Another Man’s Grave | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Until She Comes Home | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Mr. Mercedes | Winner | ||
| 2015 | This Dark Road to Mercy | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Wolf | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | Saints of the Shadow Bible | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Coptown | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Winner | ||
| 2016 | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Shortlist | |||
| 2016 | Life or Death | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Canary | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Night Life | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Before the Fall | Winner | ||
| 2017 | Shortlist | |||
| 2017 | Where It Hurts | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Jane Steele | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | What Remains of Me | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Bluebird, Bluebird | Winner | ||
| 2018 | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Prussian Blue | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Down the River Unto the Sea | Winner | ||
| 2019 | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | House Witness | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Only to Sleep | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Shortlist |
2020s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| 2020 | Fake Like Me | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Smoke and Ashes | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Winner | ||
| 2021 | Before She Was Helen | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | These Women | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Five Decembers | Winner | ||
| 2022 | Shortlist | |||
| 2022 | Razorblade Tears | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | How Lucky | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | No One Will Miss Her | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Notes on an Execution | Winner | ||
| 2023 | Devil House | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | ' | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Like a Sister | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Gangland | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | James Lee Burke | Flags on the Bayou | Winner | |
| 2024 | All the Sinners Bleed | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Shortlist | |||
| 2024 | Bright Young Women | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Shortlist | |||
| 2024 | Shortlist | |||
| 2024 | Crook Manifesto | Shortlist | ||
| 2025 | Charlotte Vassell | The In Crowd | Winner | |
| 2025 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Tainted Cup | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Katrina Carrasco | Rough Trade | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Sarah Easter Collins | Things Don't Break on Their Own | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Nicolás Ferraro | My Favorite Scar | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Liz Moore | The God of the Woods | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Amy Tintera | Listen for the Lie | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Big Empty | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | Fagin the Thief | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | The Dream Hotel | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | Wild Dark Shore | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | Hard Town | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | The Inheritance | Shortlist | ||
| 2026 | Presumed Guilty | Shortlist |