Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel


The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Winners and Finalists

* Winners
YearAuthorNovelPublisherRef.
2007*Generation LossSmall Beer Press
2007
BaltimoreBantam Spectra
2007Sharp TeethWilliam Heinemann Ltd
2007Little, Brown and Company
2007Tokyo Year ZeroKnopf Books
2008*William Morrow and Company
2008Alive in NecropolisRiverhead Books
2008
Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
2008PandemoniumDel Rey Books
2008Algonquin Books
2008Tender MorselsKnopf Books
2009*Big MachineSpiegel & Grau
2009Last DaysUnderland Press
2009Roc Books
2009Delacorte
2009White is for WitchingNan A. Talese
2009Riverhead Books
2010*Mr. ShiversOrbit Books
2010Dark MatterOrion
2010Doubleday
2010FeedOrbit Books
2010Holt
2010Gollancz
2011*Witches on the Road TonightGrove Press
2011Chômu
2011Canongate Books
2011Knock KnockOmnium Gatherum
2011Chômu
2011Doubleday
2012*EdgeVertical
2012ImmobilityTor Books
2012Gone GirlCrown
2012Roc Books
2012Spiegel & Grau
2013*American ElsewhereOrbit Books
2013Ecco Press
2013Orion; Simon & Schuster
2013William Morrow and Company
2013Night FilmRandom House
2013Wild FellChiZine Publications
2014*AnnihilationFSG Originals
2014Broken MonstersMulholland Books
2014Berkley Books
2014Jo Fletcher Books
2014Bird BoxEcco Press
2014ConfessionsMulholland Books
2015*Experimental FilmChiZine Publications
2015Lord Byron's ProphecyLethe Press
2015When We Were AnimalsMulholland Books
2015Gallery
2015EileenPenguin Press
2016*Random House
2016Little, Brown and Company
2016LilyLethe Press
2016MongrelsMorrow
2016I'm Thinking of Ending ThingsGallery / Scout
2016FoxloweFourth Estate UK / Penguin US
2017*Arcade Publishing
2017Ill WillBallantine Books
2017ChiZine
2017Penguin Press
2017Spiegel & Grau
2018*Little EveWeidenfeld & Nicolson
2018In the Night WoodJohn Joseph Adams
2018Social CreatureDoubleday
2018We Sold Our SoulsQuirk Books
2018Everything UnderJonathan Cape
2019*Two Dollar Radio
2019Curious ToysLittle, Brown and Company
2019Goodnight StrangerPark Row Books
2019Ninth HouseGollancz
2019Nothing to See HereEcco Press
2019Tinfoil ButterflyMCD x FSG Productions
2020*Saga Press
2020Plain Bad HeroinesMorrow
2020SistersJonathan Cape
2020Mexican GothicDel Rey Books
2020Death in Her HandsPenguin Books
2020True StoryViking Press
2021*My Heart Is a ChainsawSaga Press
2021Nothing But Blackened TeethTor Nightfire
2021All the Murmuring BonesTitan Books
2021No Gods, No MonstersBlackstone Publishing
2021Hummingbird SalamanderMCD
2022*Mulholland Books
2022*Where I EndTramp
2022JackalBantam Books
2022
Encyclopocalypse
2022BeulahCemetery Gates
2022Unwieldy CreaturesJaded Ibis
2023*Saga Press
2023Thomas & Mercer
2023Every Version Ends in DeathHaunt
2023Don't Fear the ReaperSaga Press
2023Henry Holt and Company
2023BrainwyrmsTor Nightfire
2024*Curdle Creek: A NovelHenry Holt & Co
2024SmothermossTin House
2024St. Martin's Press
2024Erewhon
2024Saga Press
2024EynhallowRaw Dog Screaming