Awards & Winners

Anthony Award for Best First Novel

Anthony Awards

Date Established : 1986

Check all the winners of Anthony Award for Best First Novel presented under Anthony Awards since 1986 .


Sophie Littlefield

Honored for : A Bad Day for Sorry

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Bradley The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
Bryan Gruley Starvation Lake: A Mystery
Sophie Littlefield A Bad Day for Sorry
Stuart Neville The Ghosts of Belfast
Stefanie Pintoff In the Shadow of Gotham

Stieg Larsson

Honored for : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Rosemary Harris Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Business Mystery
Julie Kramer Stalking Susan
Julie Kramer The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
G.M. Malliet Death of a Cozy Writer
Tom Rob Smith Child 44

Tana French

Honored for : In the Woods

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sean Chercover Big City, Bad Blood
Tana French In the Woods
Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files: A Novel
Craig McDonald Head Games
Marcus Sakey The Blade Itself

Louise Penny

Honored for : Still Life

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John Hart The King of Lies
Steve Hockensmith Holmes on the Range
Louise Penny Still Life
Cornelia Read A Field of Darkness
Alexandra Sokoloff The Harrowing

Chris Grabenstein

Honored for : Tilt-a-Whirl

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Chris Grabenstein Tilt-a-Whirl
Randall Hicks The Baby Game
Megan Abbott Die a Little
Brian Freeman Immoral
Theresa Schwegel Officer Down

Harley Jane Kozak

Honored for : Dating Dead Men

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sandra Balzo Uncommon Grounds
Judy Clemens Till The Cows Come Home
Jilliane Hoffman Retribution
J.A. Konrath Whiskey Sour
Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men

Patricia Lambrecht, Traci Lambrecht

Honored for : Want to Play?

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Erin Hart Haunted Ground
Rebecca Pawel Death of a Nationalist
Patricia Lambrecht Want to Play?
Traci Lambrecht Want to Play?
Lono Waiwaiole Wiley's Lament
Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Honored for : In the Bleak Midwinter

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Corbett The Devil's Redhead
Libby Fischer Hellmann An Eye for Murder
Jonathon King The Blue Edge of Midnight
Eddie Muller The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter

C. J. Box

Honored for : Open Season

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
C. J. Box Open Season
Jan Grape Austin City Blue
Denise Hamilton The Jasmine Trade: A Novel of Suspense Introducing Eve Diamond
K. J. Erickson Third Person Singular
Andy Straka A Witness Above

Qiu Xiaolong

Honored for : Death of a Red Heroine

Donna Andrews

Honored for : Murder with Peacocks

William Kent Krueger

Honored for : Iron Lake

Lee Child

Honored for : Killing Floor

Dale Furutani

Honored for : Death in Little Tokyo: A Ken Tanaka Mystery

Terris McMahan Grimes

Honored for : Somebody Else's Child

Virginia Lanier

Honored for : Death in Bloodhound Red

Caleb Carr

Honored for : The Alienist

Nevada Barr

Honored for : Track of the Cat

Barbara Neely

Honored for : Blanche on the Lam

Sue Henry

Honored for : Murder on the Iditarod Trail

Patricia Cornwell

Honored for : Postmortem

Karen Kijewski

Honored for : Katwalk

Elizabeth George

Honored for : A Great Deliverance

Gillian Roberts

Honored for : Caught Dead in Philadelphia

Bill Crider

Honored for : Too Late to Die

Jonathan Kellerman

Honored for : When the Bough Breaks