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2018

2018 Best Novel Awards

Anthony Awards
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Force by Don Winslow
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Barry Awards
Exit Strategy by Steve Hamilton
The Force by Don Winslow
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr

Edgar Awards
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (winner)
The Dime by Kathleen Kent
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

2018 Best First Novel Awards

Anthony Awards
The Dry by Jane Harper
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Barry Awards
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Irregular by H B Lyle
The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

2018 Best Book Awards

Andre Norton Award
The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller (winner)
Exo by Fonda Lee
Want by Cindy Pon
Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren

Arthur C. Clarke Award
American War by Omar El Akkad
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (winner)
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

Carnegie Medal
After the Fire by Will Hill
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Release by Patrick Ness
Rook by Anthony McGowan
Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

Desmond Elliott Prize
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
How to Be Human by Paula Cocozza
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

John W. Campbell
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng

2018 Best Paperback original Awards

Barry Awards
Blessed Are The Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
The Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
Safe From Harm by RJ Bailey
Super Con by James Swain

Edgar Awards
Black Fall by Andrew Mayne
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
Penance by Kanae Minato
Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola (winner)

2018 Best Thriller Awards

Barry Awards
The Freedom Broker by K J Howe
Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney
The Old Man by Thomas Perry
Spook Street by Mick Herron
Trap the Devil by Ben Coes
Unsub by Meg Gardiner

2018 Best First Book Awards

Betty Trask Award
All the Good Things by Clare Fisher
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton (winner)
Mussolini's Island by Sarah Day
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone

Edgar Awards
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (winner)
Tornado Weather by Deborah E Kennedy

Authors who died in 2018