Edgar Award for Best Novel: every winner 1954–2026, on audiobook
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel — the 'Edgar' — is the most prestigious honor in crime, mystery, and thriller fiction, awarded annually by the Mystery Writers of America since 1954. Mystery and thriller is one of the largest and most-listened audiobook categories, and most Edgar winners are available as full audiobook productions.
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Every Edgar Award for Best Novel winner, 1954–2026
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Big Empty | Robert Crais |
| 2025 | The In Crowd | Charlotte Vassell |
| 2024 | Flags on the Bayou | James Lee Burke |
| 2023 | Notes on an Execution | Danya Kukafka |
| 2022 | Five Decembers | James Kestrel |
| 2021 | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara |
| 2020 | The Stranger Diaries | Elly Griffiths |
| 2019 | Down the River Unto the Sea | Walter Mosley |
| 2018 | Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke |
| 2017 | Before the Fall | Noah Hawley |
| 2016 | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy |
| 2015 | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King |
| 2014 | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
| 2013 | Live by Night | Dennis Lehane |
| 2012 | Gone | Mo Hayder |
| 2011 | The Lock Artist | Steve Hamilton |
| 2010 | The Last Child | John Hart |
| 2009 | Blue Heaven | C. J. Box |
| 2008 | Down River | John Hart |
| 2007 | The Janissary Tree | Jason Goodwin |
| 2006 | Citizen Vince | Jess Walter |
| 2005 | California Girl | T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2004 | Resurrection Men | Ian Rankin |
| 2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan |
| 2002 | Silent Joe | T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2001 | The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale |
| 2000 | Bones | Jan Burke |
| 1999 | Mr. White's Confession | Robert Clark |
| 1998 | Cimarron Rose | James Lee Burke |
| 1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Thomas H. Cook |
| 1996 | Come to Grief | Dick Francis |
| 1995 | The Red Scream | Mary Willis Walker |
| 1994 | The Sculptress | Minette Walters |
| 1993 | Bootlegger's Daughter | Margaret Maron |
| 1992 | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Lawrence Block |
| 1991 | New Orleans Mourning | Julie Smith |
| 1990 | Black Cherry Blues | James Lee Burke |
| 1989 | A Cold Red Sunrise | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| 1988 | Old Bones | Aaron Elkins |
| 1987 | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine |
| 1986 | The Suspect | L. R. Wright |
| 1985 | Briarpatch | Ross Thomas |
| 1984 | La Brava | Elmore Leonard |
| 1983 | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer |
| 1982 | Peregrine | William Bayer |
| 1981 | Whip Hand | Dick Francis |
| 1980 | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling |
| 1979 | Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett |
| 1978 | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan |
| 1977 | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker |
| 1976 | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield |
| 1975 | Peter's Pence | Jon Cleary |
| 1974 | Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman |
| 1973 | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer |
| 1972 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
| 1971 | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
| 1970 | Forfeit | Dick Francis |
| 1969 | A Case of Need | Michael Crichton |
| 1968 | God Save the Mark | Donald E. Westlake |
| 1967 | King of the Rainy Country | Nicolas Freeling |
| 1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Adam Hall |
| 1965 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré |
| 1964 | The Light of Day | Eric Ambler |
| 1963 | Death and the Joyful Woman | Ellis Peters |
| 1962 | Gideon's Fire | J. J. Marric |
| 1961 | The Progress of a Crime | Julian Symons |
| 1960 | The Hours Before Dawn | Celia Fremlin |
| 1959 | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin |
| 1958 | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy |
| 1957 | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong |
| 1956 | Beast in View | Margaret Millar |
| 1955 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
| 1954 | Beat Not the Bones | Charlotte Jay |
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