Edgar Award Winners - Reading List

Edgar Award Winners - Reading List

​Looking for a good mystery novel? Every year, the Mystery Writers of America gives out the Edgar Award for its favorite novel. Check out this list of winners.

The Edgar Awards - named after Edgar Allan Poe - are literary honors announced annually by the Mystery Writers of America. Below is a reading list of recent winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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​2010 Winner

The Last Child by John Hart

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2011 Winner

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

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2012 Winner

Gone by Mo Hayder

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2013 Winner

Live by Night by Dennis Lehane

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2014 Winner

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

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2015 Winner

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

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2016 Winner

Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy

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2017 Winner

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

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2018 Winner

​Bluebird, Blurbird by Attica Locke

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2019 Winner

Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

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