Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
Awarded for	The best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novel of at least 40,000 words, published in English in the same calendar year
Location	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Presented by	Readercon
First award	2007
Most recent winner	Yvonne Battle-Felton (Curdle Creek)
Website	shirleyjacksonawards.org

Awarded forThe best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic novel of at least 40,000 words, published in English in the same calendar year

LocationMassachusetts

CountryUnited States

Presented byReadercon

The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref.
2007	Elizabeth Hand*	Generation Loss	Small Beer Press	^[1]
	Mike Mignola Christopher Golden	Baltimore	Bantam Spectra	^[1]
	Toby Barlow	Sharp Teeth	William Heinemann Ltd	^[1]
	Dan Simmons	The Terror	Little, Brown and Company	^[1]
	David Peace	Tokyo Year Zero	Knopf Books	^[1]
2008	Jeffrey Ford*	The Shadow Year	William Morrow and Company	^[2]
	Doug Dorst	Alive in Necropolis	Riverhead Books	^[2]
	Steve Rasnic Tem Melanie Tem	The Man on the Ceiling	Wizards of the Coast Discoveries	^[2]
	Daryl Gregory	Pandemonium	Del Rey Books	^[2]
	Jack O'Connell	The Resurrectionist	Algonquin Books	^[2]
	Margo Lanagan	Tender Morsels	Knopf Books	^[2]
2009	Victor LaValle*	Big Machine	Spiegel & Grau	^[3]
	Brian Evenson	Last Days	Underland Press	^[3]
	Caitlín R. Kiernan	The Red Tree	Roc Books	^[3]
	Karen Maitland	The Owl Killers	Delacorte	^[3]
	Helen Oyeyemi	White is for Witching	Nan A. Talese	^[3]
	Sarah Waters	The Little Stranger	Riverhead Books	^[3]
2010	Robert Jackson Bennett*	Mr. Shivers	Orbit Books	^[4]
	Michelle Paver	Dark Matter	Orion	^[4]
	Peter Straub	A Dark Matter	Doubleday	^[4]
	Mira Grant	Feed	Orbit Books	^[4]
	Alden Bell	The Reapers Are the Angels	Holt	^[4]
	Graham Joyce	The Silent Land	Gollancz	^[4]
2011	Sheri Holman*	Witches on the Road Tonight	Grove Press	^[5]
	Michael Cisco	The Great Lover	Chômu	^[5]
	Glen Duncan	The Last Werewolf	Canongate Books	^[5]
	S. P. Miskowski	Knock Knock	Omnium Gatherum	^[5]
	Reggie Oliver	The Dracula Papers	Chômu	^[5]
	Donald Ray Pollock	The Devil All the Time	Doubleday	^[5]
2012	Koji Suzuki*	Edge	Vertical	^[6]
	Brian Evenson	Immobility	Tor Books	^[6]
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	Crown	^[6]
	Caitlín R. Kiernan	The Drowning Girl	Roc Books	^[6]
	Victor LaValle	The Devil in Silver	Spiegel & Grau	^[6]
2013	Robert Jackson Bennett*	American Elsewhere	Orbit Books	^[7]
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Accursed	Ecco Press	^[7]
	Andrew Pyper	The Demonologist	Orion; Simon & Schuster	^[7]
	Yangsze Choo	The Ghost Bride	William Morrow and Company	^[7]
	Marisha Pessl	Night Film	Random House	^[7]
	Michael Rowe	Wild Fell	ChiZine Publications	^[7]
2014	Jeff VanderMeer*	Annihilation	FSG Originals	^[8]
	Lauren Beukes	Broken Monsters	Mulholland Books	^[8]
	Christopher Buehlman	The Lesser Dead	Berkley Books	^[8]
	Alison Littlewood	The Unquiet House	Jo Fletcher Books	^[8]
	Josh Malerman	Bird Box	Ecco Press	^[8]
	Kanae Minato	Confessions	Mulholland Books	^[8]
2015	Gemma Files*	Experimental Film	ChiZine Publications	^[9]
	Sean Eads	Lord Byron's Prophecy	Lethe Press	^[9]
	Joshua Gaylord	When We Were Animals	Mulholland Books	^[9]
	Robert Levy	The Glittering World	Gallery	^[9]
	Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Penguin Press	^[9]
2016	Emma Cline*	The Girls	Random House	^[10]
	Emma Donoghue	The Wonder	Little, Brown and Company	^[10]
	Michael Thomas Ford	Lily	Lethe Press	^[10]
	Stephen Graham Jones	Mongrels	Morrow	^[10]
	Iain Reid	I'm Thinking of Ending Things	Gallery / Scout	^[10]
	Eleanor Wasserberg	Foxlowe	Fourth Estate UK / Penguin US	^[10]
2017	Pyun Hye-young*	The Hole	Arcade Publishing	^[11]
	Dan Chaon	Ill Will	Ballantine Books	^[11]
	David Demchuk	The Bone Mother	ChiZine	^[11]
	Paul La Farge	The Night Ocean	Penguin Press	^[11]
	Victor LaValle	The Changeling	Spiegel & Grau	^[11]
2018	Catriona Ward*	Little Eve	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	^[12]
	Dale Bailey	In the Night Wood	John Joseph Adams	^[12]
	Tara Isabella Burton	Social Creature	Doubleday	^[12]
	Grady Hendrix	We Sold Our Souls	Quirk Books	^[12]
	Daisy Johnson	Everything Under	Jonathan Cape	^[12]
2019	Sarah Rose Etter*	The Book of X	Two Dollar Radio	^[13]
	Elizabeth Hand	Curious Toys	Little, Brown and Company	^[13]
	Miciah Bay Gault	Goodnight Stranger	Park Row Books	^[13]
	Leigh Bardugo	Ninth House	Gollancz	^[13]
	Wilson	Nothing to See Here	Ecco Press	^[13]
	Moulton	Tinfoil Butterfly	MCD x FSG Productions	^[13]
2020	Stephen Graham Jones*	The Only Good Indians	Saga Press	^[14]
	Emily M. Danforth	Plain Bad Heroines	Morrow	^[14]
	Daisy Johnson	Sisters	Jonathan Cape	^[14]
	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Mexican Gothic	Del Rey Books	^[14]
	Ottessa Moshfegh	Death in Her Hands	Penguin Books	^[14]
	Kate Reed Petty	True Story	Viking Press	^[14]
2021	Stephen Graham Jones*	My Heart Is a Chainsaw	Saga Press	^[15]
	Cassandra Khaw	Nothing But Blackened Teeth	Tor Nightfire	^[15]
	A.G. Slatter	All the Murmuring Bones	Titan Books	^[15]
	Cadwell Turnbull	No Gods, No Monsters	Blackstone Publishing	^[15]
	Jeff VanderMeer	Hummingbird Salamander	MCD	^[15]
2022	Gabino Iglesias*	The Devil Takes You Home	Mulholland Books	^[16]
	Sophie White*	Where I End	Tramp	^[16]
	Erin E. Adams	Jackal	Bantam Books	^[16]
	Paul Gandersman Peter Hall	The Dead Friends Society	Encyclopocalypse	^[16]
	Christi Nogle	Beulah	Cemetery Gates	^[16]
	Addie Tsai	Unwieldy Creatures	Jaded Ibis	^[16]
2023	Tananarive Due*	The Reformatory	Saga Press	^[17]
	Christa Carmen	The Daughters of Block Island	Thomas & Mercer	^[17]
	Aliya Chaudhry	Every Version Ends in Death	Haunt	^[17]
	Stephen Graham Jones	Don't Fear the Reaper	Saga Press	^[17]
	John Milas	The Militia House	Henry Holt and Company	^[17]
	Alison Rumfitt	Brainwyrms	Tor Nightfire	^[17]
2024	Yvonne Battle-Felton*	Curdle Creek: A Novel	Henry Holt & Co	^[18]
	Alisa Alering	Smothermoss	Tin House	^[18]
	Christopher Golden	The House of Last Resort	St. Martin's Press	^[18]
	Monika Kim	The Eyes Are the Best Part	Erewhon	^[18]
	Gwendolyn Kiste	The Haunting of Velkwood	Saga Press	^[18]
	Tim McGregor	Eynhallow	Raw Dog Screaming	^[18]

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