Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
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
First award2007
Most recent winnerYvonne Battle-Felton (Curdle Creek)
Websiteshirleyjacksonawards.org

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

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

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]

References

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  18. ^ a b c d e f "2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus. 21 Jul 2025. Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
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