Bouchercon 2025: Anthony Nominees

Bouchercon 2025 just announced the Anthony Nominees. Winners will be announced at Bouchercon in New Orleans in September. Congratulations to all!

THE ANTHONY AWARD WINNERS: Bouchercon 2024

Anthony Award Winners: Bouchercon 2024. Nashville. Congratulations to All!

Best Novel: All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

Best First Novel: Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

Best Paperback/Ebook/Audiobook: Hide by Tracy Clark

Best Children's/Young Adult: Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

Best Critical/Nonfiction: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

Best Anthology/Collection: Killin’ Time in San Diego, edited by Holly West

Best Short Story: Ticket to Ride by Dru Ann Love & Kristopher Zgorski

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS 2023: Bouchercon San Diego

Boucheron announced the Anthony Awards Finalists in nine categories. Award winners will be announced at Bouchercon 2023: San Diego.

ANTHONY AWARD WINNERS 2022

The Anthony Awards were presented this evening at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Minneapolis. Congratulations to all!

Best Novel

Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby 

Best First Novel

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala 

Best Paperback/Ebook/Audiobook Oriignal

Bloodline by Jess Lourey

Best Anthology

This Time for Sure: Bouchercon Anthology 2021, Edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Best Short Story

"Not My Cross to Bear" by S.A. Cosby

Best Critical/Non-Fiction

How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America edited by Lee Child with Laurie R. King 

Best Children's/Young Adult

I Play One on TV by Alan S. Orloff

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Thanks to Erin Mitchell for the Graphic!

ANTHONY AWARDS: BOUCHERCON

Bouchercon, the world mystery convention, announced the nominees for its prestigious Anthony Awards tonight at the first Virtual Bouchercon. Bouchercon 2020: Sacramento.

2020 Anthony Award Awards

BEST NOVEL
The Murder List, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
One Night Gone, by Tara Laskowski (Graydon House)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Alchemist’s Illusion, by Gigi Pandian (Midnight Ink)

BEST CRITICAL NON-FICTION WORK
The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women, by Mo Moulton (Basic Books)

BEST SHORT STORY
“The Red Zone,” by Alex Segura (appearing in ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico)

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons (Wildside Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT**
Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry, by Jen Conley (Down & Out Books)

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization that holds an annual convention attended by readers, writers, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers, and other lovers of crime fiction. Its annual Anthony Awards are named for writer and book critic Anthony Boucher and are one of crime fiction’s most prestigious and coveted awards.