Category List – Best First Novel

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Award YearAward CategoryTitleAuthor's NamePublisher/ProducerNotes
2024 Best First Novel The Peacock and the Sparrrow I.S. Berry Simon & Schuster - Atria Books
2024 Best First Novel The Golden Gate Amy Chua Macmillan Publishing - Minotaur Books
2024 Best First Novel Small Town Sins Ken Jaworowski Macmillan Publishing - Henry Holt and Co.
2024 Best First Novel The Last Russian Doll Kristen Loesch Penguin Random House - Berkley
2024 Best First Novel Murder by Degrees Ritu Mukerji Simon & Schuster
2023 Best First Novel Jackal Erin E. Adams Penguin Random House - Bantam
2023 Best First Novel Don't Know Tough Eli Cranor Soho Press - Soho Crime
2023 Best First Novel Shutter Ramona Emerson Soho Press - Soho Crime
2023 Best First Novel More Than You'll Ever Know Katie Gutierrez HarperCollins - William Morrow
2023 Best First Novel Portrait of a Thief Grace D. Li Penguin Random House - Tiny Reparations Books
2022 Best First Novel Deer Season Erin Flanagan University of Nebraska Press
2022 Best First Novel Never Saw Me Coming Vera Kurian Harlequin Trade Publishing - Park Row
2022 Best First Novel Suburban Dicks Fabian Nicieza Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2022 Best First Novel What Comes After JoAnne Tompkins Penguin Random House - Riverhead Books
2022 Best First Novel The Damage Caitlin Wahrer Penguin Random House - Viking Books/Pamela Dorman Books
2021 Best First Novel Murder in Old Bombay Nev March Minotaur Books
2021 Best First Novel Please See Us Caitlin Mullen Simon & Schuster - Gallery Books
2021 Best First Novel Catherine House Elisabeth Thomas HarperCollins Publishers - Willliam Morrow
2021 Best First Novel Winter Counts David Heska Wanbli Weiden HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco
2021 Best First Novel Darling Rose Gold Stephanie Wrobel Penguin Random House - Berkley
2020 Best First Novel My Lovely Wife Samantha Downing Penguin Random House - Berkley
2020 Best First Novel Miracle Creek Angie Kim Farrar Straus and Giroux - Sarah Crichton Books
2020 Best First Novel The Good Detective John McMahon Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2020 Best First Novel The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott Penguin Random House - Alfred A. Knopf
2020 Best First Novel Three-Fifths John Vercher Polis Books - Agora Books
2020 Best First Novel American Spy Lauren Wilkinson Penguin Random House - Random House
2019 Best First Novel A Knife in the Fog Bradley Harper Seventh Street Books
2019 Best First Novel The Captives Debra Jo Immergut HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco
2019 Best First Novel Bearskin James A. McLaughlin HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco
2019 Best First Novel The Last Equation of Isaac Severy Nova Jacobs Simon & Schuster - Touchstone
2019 Best First Novel Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2018 Best First Novel She Rides Shotgun Jordan Harper HarperCollins - Ecco
2018 Best First Novel Dark Chapter Winnie M. Li Polis Books
2018 Best First Novel Lola Melissa Schrivner Love Penguin Random House - Crown
2018 Best First Novel Idaho Emily Ruskovich Random House
2018 Best First Novel Tornado Weather Deborah E. Kennedy Flatiron Books
2017 Best First Novel Under the Harrow Flynn Berry Penguin Random House - Penguin Books
2017 Best First Novel Dodgers Bill Beverly Crown Publishing Group
2017 Best First Novel IQ Joe Ide Little, Brown & Company - Mulholland Books
2017 Best First Novel The Drifter Nicholas Petrie Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2017 Best First Novel Dancing with the Tiger Lili Wright Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2017 Best First Novel The Lost Girls Heather Young HarperCollins Publishers - Willilam Morrow
2016 Best First Novel Past Crimes Glen Erik Hamilton HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow
2016 Best First Novel Where All Light Tends to Go David Joy Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons
2016 Best First Novel Luckiest Girl Alive Jessica Knoll Simon & Schuster
2016 Best First Novel The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Atlantic - Grove Press
2016 Best First Novel Unbecoming Rebecca Scherm Penguin Random House - Viking
2015 Best First Novel Dry Bones in the Valley Tom Bouman W.W. Norton
2015 Best First Novel Invisible City Julia Dahl Minotaur Books
2015 Best First Novel The Life We Bury Allen Eskens Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books
2015 Best First Novel Bad Country C.B. McKenzie Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book
2015 Best First Novel Shovel Ready Adam Sternbergh Crown Publishers
2015 Best First Novel Murder at the Brightwell Ashley Weaver Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book
2014 Best First Novel Red Sparrow Jason Matthews Simon & Schuster/Scribner
2014 Best First Novel Ghostman Roger Hobbs Alfred A. Knopf
2014 Best First Novel Rage Against the Dying Becky Masterman Minotaur Books
2014 Best First Novel Reconstructing Amelia Kimberly McCreight HarperCollins Publishers - Harper
2014 Best First Novel The Resurrectionist Matthew Guinn W.W. Norton & Co.
2013 Best First Novel The Expats Chris Pavone Crown Publishers
2013 Best First Novel Black Fridays Michael Sears Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons
2013 Best First Novel Don't Ever Get Old Daniel Friedman Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books
2013 Best First Novel Mr. Churchill's Secretary Susan Elia MacNeal Random House - Bantam
2013 Best First Novel The Map of Lost Memories Kim Fay Random House Publishing - Ballantine
2012 Best First Novel Bent Road Lori Roy Penguin Group USA - Dutton
2012 Best First Novel All Cry Chaos Leonard Rosen The Permanent Press
2012 Best First Novel Last to Fold David Duffy Thomas Dunne Books
2012 Best First Novel Purgatory Chasm Steve Ulfelder Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books
2012 Best First Novel Red on Red Edward Conlon Random House Publishing - Spiegel & Grau
2012 Best First Novel The 500 Matthew Quirk Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Reagan Arthur
2011 Best First Novel Rogue Island Bruce DeSilva Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books
2011 Best First Novel Galveston Nic Pizzolatto Simon & Schuster/Scribner
2011 Best First Novel Snow Angels James Thompson Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons
2011 Best First Novel The Poacher's Son Paul Doiron Minotaur Books
2011 Best First Novel The Serialist: A Novel David Gordon Simon & Schuster
2010 Best First Novel In the Shadow of Gotham Stefanie Pintoff Minotaur Books
2010 Best First Novel A Bad Day for Sorry Sophie Littlefield Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books
2010 Best First Novel Black Water Rising Attica Locke HarperCollins
2010 Best First Novel Starvation Lake Bryan Gruley Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
2010 Best First Novel The Girl She Used to Be David Cristofano Grand Central Publishing
2010 Best First Novel The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf MIRA Books
2009 Best First Novel The Foreigner Francie Lin Picador USA
2009 Best First Novel A Cure for Night Justin Peacock Doubleday
2009 Best First Novel Calumet City Charlie Newton Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
2009 Best First Novel Sweetsmoke David Fuller Hyperion
2009 Best First Novel The Kind One Tom Epperson Five Star Publishing
2008 Best First Novel In the Woods Tana French Penguin Group - Viking
2008 Best First Novel Head Games Craig McDonald Bleak House Books
2008 Best First Novel Missing Witness Gordon Campbell HarperCollins - William Morrow
2008 Best First Novel Pyres Derek Nikitas St. Martin's Minotaur
2008 Best First Novel Snitch Jacket Christopher Goffard The Rookery Press
2007 Best First Novel The Faithful Spy Alex Berenson Random House
2007 Best First Novel A Field of Darkness Cornelia Read Warner Books
2007 Best First Novel Holmes on the Range Steve Hockensmith St. Martin's Minotaur
2007 Best First Novel King of Lies John Hart St. Martin's Minotaur
2007 Best First Novel Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn Crown
2006 Best First Novel Officer Down Theresa Schwegel St. Martin's Minotaur
2006 Best First Novel Die A Little Megan Abbott Simon & Schuster
2006 Best First Novel Hide Your Eyes Alison Gaylin Signet
2006 Best First Novel Immoral Brian Freeman St. Martin's Minotaur
2006 Best First Novel Run the Risk Scott Frost G.P. Putnam's Sons