* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Best First Novel | Close His Eyes | Olivia Dwight | Harper | |
| 1962 | Best First Novel | Felony Tank | Malcolm Braly | Gold Medal | |
| 1962 | Best First Novel | Night of the Kill | Breni James | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1962 | Best First Novel | Shock Treatment | Winfred Van Atta | Doubleday | |
| 1962 | Best First Novel | The Cipher | Alex Gordons | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1961 | Best First Novel | The Man in the Cage | John Holbrooke Vance | Random House | |
| 1961 | Best First Novel | Case Pending | Dell Shannon | Harper | |
| 1961 | Best First Novel | The Killing at Big Tree | David McCarthy | Doubleday | |
| 1961 | Best First Novel | The Marriage Cage | William Johnston | Lyle Stuart | |
| 1961 | Best First Novel | The Mercenaries | Donald E. Westlake | Random House | |
| 1960 | Best First Novel | The Grey Flannel Shroud | Henry Slesar | Random House | |
| 1960 | Best First Novel | A Dream of Falling | Mary O. Rank | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1959 | Best First Novel | The Bright Road to Fear | Richard Martin Stern | Ballantine | |
| 1959 | Best First Novel | Death of a Spinster | Frances Duncombe | Scribners | |
| 1959 | Best First Novel | Now Will You Try for Murder? | Harry Olesker | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1959 | Best First Novel | The Man Who Disappeared | Edgar J. Bohle | Random House | |
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Root of Evil | James Cross | Messner | |
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Knock and Wait a While | William Rawle Weeks | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Bay of the Damned | Warren Carrier | John Day | |
| 1957 | Best First Novel | Rebecca's Pride | Donald McNutt Douglass | Harper | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | The Perfectionist | Lane Kauffman | Lippincott | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | In His Blood | Harold R. Daniels | Dell | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | Much Ado About Murder | Fred Levon | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1955 | Best First Novel | Go, Lovely Rose | Jean Potts | Scribners | |
| 1954 | Best First Novel | A Kiss Before Dying | Ira Levin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1953 | Best First Novel | Don't Cry for Me | William Campbell Gault | Dutton | |
| 1953 | Best First Novel | The Inward Eye | Peggy Bacon | Scribners | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Strangle Hold | Mary McMullen | Harper | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Carry My Coffin Slowly | Lee Herrington | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Cure it with Honey | Thurston Scott | Harper | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | The Christmas Card Murders | David William Meredith | Knopf | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | The Eleventh Hour | Robert B. Sinclair | Mill | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Nightmare in Manhattan | Thomas Walsh | Little, Brown | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Happy Holiday! | Thaddeus O'Finn | Rinehart & Co. | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | Harper | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | The House Without a Door | Thomas Sterling | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | What A Body | Alan Green | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Dark Light | Bart Spicer | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The End is Known | Geoffrey Holiday Hall | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Innocent | Evelyn Piper | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Shadow and the Blot | G.G. Lobell, N.D. Lobell | Harper | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | Walk the Dark Streets | William Krasner | Harper | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | The Room Upstairs | Mildred Davis | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | Shoot the Works | Richard Ellington | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | Wilders Walk Away | Herbert Brean | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1948 | Best First Novel | The Fabulous Clipjoint | Fredric Brown | Dutton | |
| 1947 | Best First Novel | The Horizontal Man | Helen Eustis | Harper | |
| 1946 | Best First Novel | Watchful at Night | Julius Fast | Rinehart & Co. |