Anthony Awards

Anthony Awards
Awarded for	Best in mystery fiction
Presented by	Bouchercon World Mystery Convention
First awarded	1986
Website	bouchercon.com

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.[1][2]

Categories

Awards are voted for by members attending the annual event and are given in a number of categories, including

• Anthony Award for Best Novel
• Anthony Award for Best First Novel
• Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
• Anthony Award for Best Short Story
• Critical / Non-fiction Work
• Special Service award

The ceremony may also include a number of "wild card" awards.^[citation needed]

Winners

1980s

Anthony Award winners (1986-1989)[3][4]

Year	Category	Author	Title
1986	First Novel	Jonathan Kellerman	When the Bough Breaks
	Movie		Witness
	Novel	Sue Grafton	"B" Is for Burglar
	Paperback Original	Nancy Pickard	Say No to Murder
	Short Story	Linda Barnes	"Lucky Penny" from The New Black Mask, No. 3
	TV Series		Murder She Wrote
	Grand Master	Barbara Mertz
1987	First Novel	Bill Crider	Too Late to Die
	Novel	Sue Grafton	"C" Is for Corpse
	Paperback Original	Robert Wright Campbell	The Junkyard Dog
	Short Story	Sue Grafton	"The Parker Shotgun" from Mean Streets
1988	First Novel	Gillian Roberts	Caught Dead in Philadelphia
	Movie		The Big Easy
	Novel	Tony Hillerman	Skinwalkers
	Paperback Original	Robert Crais	The Monkey's Raincoat
	Short Story	Robert Barnard	"Breakfast Television" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1987
	TV Series		Mystery!
1989	First Novel	Elizabeth George	A Great Deliverance
	Novel	Thomas Harris	The Silence of the Lambs
	Paperback Original	Carolyn Hart	Something Wicked
	Short Story	No award presented
	Lifetime Achievement	Dorothy Salisbury Davis
	Distinguished Contribution	Joan Kahn[5][6]

1990s

Anthony Award winners (1990-1999)[3][4]

Year	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
1990	First Novel	Karen Kijewski	Katwalk
	Movie		Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Novel	Sarah Caudwell	The Sirens Sang of Murder
	Paperback Original	Carolyn Hart	Honeymoon with Murder
	Short Story	Nancy Pickard	Afraid All The Time from Sisters in Crime
	TV Series		Inspector Morse
	Lifetime Achievement	Michael Gilbert
1991	Critical work	Jon L. Breen and Martin H. Greenberg	Synod Of Sleuths
	First Novel	Patricia Cornwell	Postmortem
	Motion Picture		Presumed Innocent
	Novel	Sue Grafton	"G" Is for Gumshoe
	Paperback Original	Rochelle Krich	Where's Mommy Now?
		James McCahery	Grave Undertaking
	Short Story	Susan Dunlap	"The Celestial Buffet" from Sisters in Crime 2
	Television series		Mystery!
	Lifetime Achievement	William Campbell Gault
1992	Anthology / Short Story collection	Sara Paretsky	A Woman's Eye
	Critical work	Maxim Jakubowski	100 Great Detectives
	First Novel	Sue Henry	Murder on the Iditarod Trail
	Novel	Peter Lovesey	The Last Detective
	Paperback Original	No award presented
	Short Story	Liza Cody	"Lucky Dip" from A Woman’s Eye
	True Crime	David Simon	Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
	Lifetime Achievement	Charlotte MacLeod
1993	Critical work	Ellen Nehr	Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991
	First Novel	Barbara Neely	Blanche on the Lam
	Motion Picture		The Crying Game
	Novel	Margaret Maron	Bootlegger's Daughter
	Paperback Original	No award presented
	Short Story	Diane Mott Davidson	"Cold Turkey" from Sisters in Crime 5	[7]
	True Crime	Barbara D'Amato	The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case
	Lifetime Achievement	Hammond Innes
		Ralph McInerny
1994	Anthology / Short Story collection	Martin H. Greenberg	Mary Higgins Clark presents Malice Domestic 2
	Critical work	Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, and Larry Segriff	The Fine Art Of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion
	First Novel	Nevada Barr	Track of the Cat
	Novel	Marcia Muller	Wolf in the Shadows
	Paperback Original	No award presented
	Short Story	Susan Dunlap	"Checkout" from Malice Domestic 2
	True Crime	Ann Rule	A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases
	Lifetime Achievement	Tony Hillerman
1995	Anthology / Short Story collection	Tony Hillerman	The Mysterious West
	Critical work	B.A. Pike and J. Cooper	Crime Fiction, 2nd Edition
	Film		Pulp Fiction
	First Novel	Caleb Carr	The Alienist
	Novel	Sharyn McCrumb	She Walks These Hills
	Short Story	Sharyn McCrumb	"The Monster of Glamis" from Royal Crimes
	True Crime	David Canter	Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
	TV Series		Prime Suspect
	Lifetime Achievement	Ruth Rendell
1996	Cover Art	Pamela Patrick	The Body In The Transept
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Kate Stine	The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd Edition
	Editor	Sara Ann Freed
	First Novel	Virginia Lanier	Death in Bloodhound Red
	Magazine / Digest / Review Publication		The Armchair Detective
	Movie		The Usual Suspects
	Novel	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar
	Paperback Original	Harlan Coben	Deal Breaker
	Publisher	St. Martin's Press
	Short Story	Gar Anthony Haywood	"And Pray Nobody Sees You" from Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes
	Short Story collection	Marcia Muller	The McCone Files: The Complete Sharon McCone Stories
	True Crime	Ann Rule	Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
	TV Show		The X-Files
1997	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Willetta L. Heising	Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women
	Fanzine		The Armchair Detective
	First Novel	Dale Furutani	Death in Little Tokyo
		Terris McMahan Grimes	Somebody Else's Child
	Novel	Michael Connelly	The Poet
	Short Story	Carolyn Wheat	"Accidents Will Happen" from Malice Domestic 5
	Lifetime Achievement	Donald E. Westlake
1998	Cover Art	Michael Kellner	Night Dogs
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	No award presented
	First Novel	Lee Child	Killing Floor
	Novel	S. J. Rozan	No Colder Place
	Paperback Original	Rick Riordan	Big Red Tequila
	Short Story	Edward D. Hoch	"One Bag of Coconuts" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1997
		Jan Grape	"A Front Row Seat" from Vengeance is Hers
1999	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	George Easter	Deadly Pleasures Magazine
	First Novel	William Kent Krueger	Iron Lake
	Novel	Michael Connelly	Blood Work
	Paperback Original	Laura Lippman	Butchers Hill
	Short Story	Barbara D'Amato	"Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998
	Lifetime Achievement	Len and June Moffatt

2000s

Anthony Award winners (2000-2009)[3][4]

Year	Category	Author	Title
2000	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Willetta L. Heising	Detecting Women, 3rd edition
	First Novel	Donna Andrews	Murder with Peacocks
	Novel	Peter Robinson	In a Dry Season
	Novel of the century	Daphne Du Maurier	Rebecca
	Paperback Original	Laura Lippman	In Big Trouble
	Series of the Century	Agatha Christie	Hercule Poirot series
	Short Story	Meg Chittenden	"Noir Lite" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1999
	Writer of the Century	Agatha Christie
	Lifetime Achievement	Jane Langton
2001	Anthology / Short-story collection	Lawrence Block	Master's Choice II
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Jim Huang	100 Favorite Mysteries Of The Century
	Fan Publication	Chris Aldrich and Lynn Kaczmarek	Mystery News
	First Novel	Qiu Xiaolong	Death of a Red Heroine
	Novel	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution
	Paperback Original	Kate Grilley	Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
	Short Story	Edward D. Hoch	"The Problem of the Potting Shed" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2000
	Lifetime Achievement	Edward D. Hoch
2002	Cover Art	Michael Storrings	"Reflecting the Sky," from photograph by Josef Beck
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Tony Hillerman	Seldom Disappointed
	First Novel	C. J. Box	Open Season
	Novel	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River
	Paperback Original	Charlaine Harris	Dead Until Dark
	Short Story	Bill Crider and Judy Crider	"Chocolate Moose" from Death Dines at 8:30
	Young Adult Mystery	Penny Warner	The Mystery of the Haunted Caves
	Special Service	Doris Ann Norris
2003	Cover Art	Michael Kellner	"Measures of Poison" from photograph by Christopher Voelker
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Jim Huang	They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels
	First Novel	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter
	Novel	Michael Connelly	City of Bones
	Paperback Original	Robin Burcell	Fatal Truth
	Short Story	Marcia Talley	"Too Many Cooks" from Much Ado About Murder
	Special Service	No award issued
2004	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Gary Warren Niebuhr	Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
	First Novel	P. J. Tracy	Monkeewrench
	Historical Mystery	Rhys Bowen	For The Love Of Mike
	Novel	Laura Lippman	Every Secret Thing
	Paperback Original	Robin Burcell	Deadly Legacy
	Short Story	Rhys Bowen	"Doppelganger" from Blood on Their Hands
	Young Adult Mystery	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
	Special Service	No award issued
2005	Cover Art	Sohrab Habibion	Brooklyn Noir
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Max Allan Collins et al.	Men's Adventure Magazines
	First Novel	Harley Jane Kozak	Dating Dead Men
	Novel	William Kent Krueger	Blood Hollow
	Paperback Original	Jason Starr	Twisted City
	Short Story	Elaine Viets	"Wedding Knife" from Chesapeake Crimes
	Lifetime Achievement	Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller
		Marcia Muller
	Special Service	No award issued
2006	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Marv Lachman	The Heirs of Anthony Boucher
	Fan Publication	Jon and Ruth Jordan	Crimespree Magazine
	First Novel	Chris Grabenstein	Tilt-a-Whirl
	Novel	William Kent Krueger	Mercy Falls
	Paperback Original	Reed Farrel Coleman	The James Deans
	Short Story	Barbara Seranella	"Misdirection" from Greatest Hits
	Lifetime Achievement	Robert B. Parker
	Special Service	Janet Rudolph	Mystery Readers International
2007	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Jim Huang and Austin Lugar	Mystery Muses
	First Novel	Louise Penny	Still Life
	Novel	Laura Lippman	No Good Deeds
	Paperback Original	Dana Cameron	Ashes and Bones
	Short Story	Simon Wood	"My Father's Secret" from Crimespree Magazine
	Lifetime Achievement	James Sallis
	Special Service	Jim Huang
		Crum Creek Press
		The Mystery Company
2008	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
	First Novel	Tana French	In the Woods
	Novel	Laura Lippman	What the Dead Know
	Paperback Original	P. J. Parrish	A Thousand Bones
	Short Story	Laura Lippman	"Hardly Knew Her" from Dead Man's Hand
	Website / Blog	Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich	Stop, You're Killing Me!
	Lifetime Achievement	Robert Rosenwald
		Barbara G. Peters
	Special Service	Jon and Ruth Jordan	Crimespree magazine
2009	Children's / Young-adult Novel	Chris Grabenstein	The Crossroads
	Cover Art	Peter Mendelsund	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Jeffrey Marks	Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography
	First Novel	Stieg Larsson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Novel	Michael Connelly	The Brass Verdict
	Paperback Original	Julie Hyzy	State of the Onion
	Short Story	Sean Chercover	"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" from Hardcore Hardboiled
	Lifetime Achievement	Allen J. Hubin
	Special Service	Jon and Ruth Jordan	Crimespree magazine

2010s

Anthony Award winners (2010-2019)[4]

Year	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
2010[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	P.D. James	Talking About Detective Fiction
	First Novel	Sophie Littlefield	A Bad Day for Sorry
	Novel	Louise Penny	The Brutal Telling
	Paperback Original	Bryan Gruley	Starvation Lake
	Short Story	Hank Phillippi Ryan	On the House from Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers
	Special Service award	No award issued
2011[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	John Curran	Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
	First Novel	Hilary Davidson	Damage Done
	Graphic Novel	Jason Starr	The Chill
	Novel	Louise Penny	Bury Your Dead
	Paperback Original	Duane Swierczynski	Expiration Date
	Short Story	Dana Cameron	"Swing Shift" from Crimes By Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side
	Website / Blog	Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich	Stop, You're Killing Me!
	Lifetime Achievement	Sara Paretsky
	Special Service award	Ali Karim	Shots
2012[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Charlaine Harris	The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
	First Novel	Sara J. Henry	Learning to Swim
	Novel	Louise Penny	A Trick of the Light
	Paperback Original	Julie Hyzy	Buffalo West Wing
	Short Story	Dana Cameron	"Disarming" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011
2013[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	John Connolly and Declan Burke	Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels
	First Novel	Chris Pavone	The Expats
	Novel	Louise Penny	The Beautiful Mystery
	Paperback Original	Johnny Shaw	Big Maria
	Short Story	Dana Cameron	"Mischief in Mesopotamia" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2012
2014[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Daniel Stashower	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
	First Novel	Matt Coyle	Yesterday's Echo
	Novel	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace
	Paperback Original	Catriona McPherson	As She Left It
	Short Story	John Connolly	"The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository"
2015[3]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Hank Phillippi Ryan (ed.)	Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey
	First Novel	Lori Rader-Day	The Black Hour
	Novel	Laura Lippman	After I'm Gone
	Paperback Original	Catriona McPherson	The Day She Died
	Short Story	Art Taylor	"The Odds Are Against Us"
2016[3]	Anthology or Collection	Art Taylor (ed.)	Murder Under the Oaks	[8]
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Val McDermid	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
	First Novel	Glen Erik Hamilton	Past Crimes
	Novel	Chris Holm	The Killing Kind
	Paperback Original	Lou Berney	The Long and Faraway Gone
	Short Story	Megan Abbott	The Little Men
	Young Adult Novel	Joelle Charbonneau	Need
2017	Anthology or Collection	Greg Herren (ed.)	Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Ruth Franklin	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
	First Novel	Joe Ide	IQ
	Novel	Louise Penny	A Great Reckoning
	Novella	B.K. Stevens	The Last Blue Glass
	Paperback Original	James W. Ziskin	Heart of Stone
	Short Story	Megan Abbott	"Oxford Girl"
	Young Adult Novel	April Henry	The Girl I Used to Be
2018[9]	Anthology	Gary Phillips (ed.)	The Obama Inheritance
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	David Grann	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
	First Novel	Kellye Garrett	Hollywood Homicide
	Novel	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird
	Online Content	Jungle Red Writers
	Paperback Original	Lori Rader-Day	The Day I Died
	Short Story	Hilary Davidson	"My Side of the Matter"
	Bill Crider Award for Novel in a Series	Sue Grafton	"Y" is for Yesterday
2019[10][11]	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Michelle McNamara	I'll Be Gone in the Dark
	First Novel	Oyinkan Braithwaite	My Sister, the Serial Killer
	Novel	Lou Berney	November Road
	Paperback Original	Lori Rader-Day	Under a Dark Sky
	Short Story	S. A. Cosby	The Grass Beneath My Feet

2020s

Year	Category	Author	Title
2020[12]	Anthology or Collection	Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons (eds.)	Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible
	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Mo Moulton	The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
	First Novel	Tara Laskowski	One Night Gone
	Novel	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Murder List
	Paperback Original	Gigi Pandian	The Alchemist’s Illusion
	Short Story	Alex Segura	The Red Zone
	Young Adult	Jen Conley	Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry
2021[13][14][15]	Anthology or Collection	Heather Graham (editor)	Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology
	Critical/Non-Fiction Work	Sarah Weinman	Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
	First Novel	David Heska Wanbli Weiden	Winter Counts
	Novel	S. A. Cosby	Blacktop Wasteland
	Paperback Original	Jess Lourey	Unspeakable Things
	Short Story	Alex Segura	"90 Miles"
	Young Adult	Richie Narvaez	Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco
2022[16]	Anthology or Collection	Hank Phillippi Ryan (editor)	This Time for Sure: Bouchercon Anthology 2021
	Critical/Non-Fiction Work award	Lee Child and Laurie R. King	How To Write a Mystery: A Handbook From Mystery Writers of America
	First Novel	Mia P. Manansala	Arsenic and Adobo
	Novel	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears
	Paperback Original	Jess Lourey	Bloodline
	Short Story	S. A. Cosby	“Not My Cross to Bear”
	Young Adult	Alan Orloff	I Play One on TV
2023	Anthology	S. J. Rozan (editor)	Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top Authors
	Children’s/Young Adult	Nancy Springer	Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
	Critical/Non-fiction	Martin Edwards	The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
	First Novel	Nita Prose	The Maid
	Hardcover	Kellye Garrett	Like a Sister
	Historical	Wanda M. Morris	Anywhere You Run
	Humorous	Catriona McPherson	Scot in a Trap
	Paperback/E-book/Audiobook	Jess Lourey	The Quarry Girls
	Short Story	Barb Goffman	“Beauty and the Beyotch”

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External links

• Official website of Bouchercon World Mystery Convention