Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.[1] They remain the most prestigious awards in the entire mystery genre.[2] The award for Best Young Adult Mystery was established in 1989 and recognizes works written for ages twelve to eighteen, and grades eight through twelve.[3] Prior to the establishment of this award, the Mystery Writers of America awarded a special Edgar to Katherine Paterson for The Master Puppeteer in 1977.

Winners

1989-1999

Year Author Title Result Ref.
1989 Sonia Levitin Incident at Loring Groves Winner
1990 Alane Ferguson Show Me the Evidence Winner
1991 Chap Reaver Mote Winner
1992 Theodore Taylor The Weirdo Winner
1993 Chap Reaver A Little Bit Dead Winner
1994 Joan Lowery Nixon The Name of the Game Was Murder Winner
1995 Nancy Springer Toughing It Winner
1996 Rob MacGregor Prophecy Rock Winner
1997 Willo Davis Roberts Twisted Summer Winner
1998 Will Hobbs Ghost Canoe Winner
1999 Nancy Werlin The Killer's Cousin Winner

2000s

Year Author Title Result Ref.
2000 Vivian Vande Velde Never Trust a Dead Man Winner
2001 Elaine M. Alphin Counterfeit Son Winner
2002 Tim Wynne-Jones The Boy in the Burning House Winner
2003 Daniel Parker The Wessex Papers Winner
2004 Graham McNamee Acceleration Winner
2005 Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler In Darkness, Death Winner
2006 John Feinstein Last Shot Winner [4]
2007 Robin Merrow MacCready Buried Winner [5]
2008 Tedd Arnold Rat Life Winner [6]
2009 John Green Paper Towns Winner [7]

2010s

Year Author Title Result Ref.
2010 Peter Abrahams Reality Check Winner [8]
2011 Charlie Price The Interrogation of Gabriel James Winner
2012 Dandi Daley Mackall The Silence of Murder Winner [9][10]
Harlan Coben Shelter Shortlist [10]
Maureen Johnson The Name of the Star
Kathryn Miller Haines The Girl is Murder
Todd Strasser Kill You Last
2013 Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity Winner [11]
2014 Annabel Pitcher Ketchup Clouds Winner [12]
Julie Berry All the Truth That’s In Me Shortlist [13]
Tom McNeal Far Far Away
Terra Elan McVoy Criminal
Kirsten Miller How to Lead a Life of Crime
2015 James Klise The Art of Secrets Winner [14][15][16]
Paolo Bacigalupi The Doubt Factory Shortlist [16]
Elle Cosimano Nearly Gone
Lamar Giles Fake ID
Blake Nelson The Prince of Venice Beach
2016 Mindy McGinnis A Madness So Discreet Winner [17][18][19]
Lamar Giles Endangered Shortlist [19]
Melinda Salisbury The Sin Eater’s Daughter
Nova Ren Suma The Walls Around Us
Henry Turner Ask the Dark
2017 Monica Hesse Girl in the Blue Coat Winner [19][20][21]
Brent Hartinger Three Truths and a Lie Shortlist [19]
April Henry The Girl I Used to Be
Justine Larbalestier My Sister Rosa
Billy Taylor Thieving Weasels
2018 Jason Reynolds Long Way Down Winner [19][22][23]
Scott Bergstrom The Cruelty Shortlist [19]
Gillian French Grit
Jason Rekulak The Impossible Fortress
Angie Thomas The Hate U Give
2019 Courtney Summers Sadie Winner [19][24][25]
Erin Bowman Contagion Shortlist [19]
Sasha Dawn Blink
Will Hill After the Fire
Nova Ren Suma A Room Away From the Wolves

2020s

2020s Best Young Adult winners and shortlists[19]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2020 Naomi Kritzer Catfishing on CatNet Winner [26]
Adriana Mather Killing November Shortlist [27]
Randy Ribay Patron Saints of Nothing
Kristen Simmons The Deceivers
Leah Thomas Wild and Crooked
2021 Katie Alender The Companion Winner [28][29]
Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Inheritance Games Shortlist [30]
Monica Hesse They Went Left
June Hur Silence of Bones
Karen M. McManus The Cousins
2022 Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's Daughter Winner [31][32]
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Ace of Spades Shortlist [33]
Pamela N. Harris When You Look Like Us
June Hur The Forest of Stolen Girls
Tess Sharpe The Girls I've Been
2023 June Hur The Red Palace Winner [34]
Alexa Donne Pretty Dead Queens Shortlist [35]
Eva V. Gibson Frightmares
Juliana Goodman The Black Girls Left Standing
Vincent Ralph Lock the Doors
2024 April Henry Girl Forgotten Winner [36][37]
Matthew J. Kirby Star Splitter Shortlist [37]
Cameron Kelly Rosenblum The Sharp Edge of Silence
Yvonne Woon My Flawless Life
Laura Zimmermann Just Do This One Thing for Me

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