List_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe_Award_for_Best_Young_Adult_Novel_winners

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel

Mystery genre writing prize

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.^[1] They remain the most prestigious awards in the entire mystery genre.^[2] The award for Best Young Adult Mystery was established in 1989 and recognizes works written for ages twelve to eighteen, and grades eight through twelve.^[3] Prior to the establishment of this award, the Mystery Writers of America awarded a special Edgar to Katherine Paterson for The Master Puppeteer in 1977.

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Year	Author	Title	Result
1989	Sonia Levitin	Incident at Loring Groves	Winner
1990	Alane Ferguson	Show Me the Evidence	Winner
1991	Chap Reaver	Mote	Winner
1992	Theodore Taylor	The Weirdo	Winner
1993	Chap Reaver	A Little Bit Dead	Winner
1994	Joan Lowery Nixon	The Name of the Game Was Murder	Winner
1995	Nancy Springer	Toughing It	Winner
1996	Rob MacGregor	Prophecy Rock	Winner
1997	Willo Davis Roberts	Twisted Summer	Winner
1998	Will Hobbs	Ghost Canoe	Winner
1999	Nancy Werlin	The Killer's Cousin	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Vivian Vande Velde	Never Trust a Dead Man	Winner
2001	Elaine M. Alphin	Counterfeit Son	Winner
2002	Tim Wynne-Jones	The Boy in the Burning House	Winner
2003	Daniel Parker	The Wessex Papers	Winner
2004	Graham McNamee	Acceleration	Winner
2005	Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler	In Darkness, Death	Winner
2006	John Feinstein	Last Shot	Winner	^[4]
2007	Robin Merrow MacCready	Buried	Winner	^[5]
2008	Tedd Arnold	Rat Life	Winner	^[6]
2009	John Green	Paper Towns	Winner	^[7]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Peter Abrahams	Reality Check	Winner	^[8]
2011	Charlie Price	The Interrogation of Gabriel James	Winner
2012	Dandi Daley Mackall	The Silence of Murder	Winner	^[9]^[10]
	Harlan Coben	Shelter	Shortlist	^[10]
	Maureen Johnson	The Name of the Star
	Kathryn Miller Haines	The Girl is Murder
	Todd Strasser	Kill You Last
2013	Elizabeth Wein	Code Name Verity	Winner	^[11]
2014	Annabel Pitcher	Ketchup Clouds	Winner	^[12]
	Julie Berry	All the Truth That’s In Me	Shortlist	^[13]
	Tom McNeal	Far Far Away
	Terra Elan McVoy	Criminal
	Kirsten Miller	How to Lead a Life of Crime
2015	James Klise	The Art of Secrets	Winner	^[14]^[15]^[16]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Doubt Factory	Shortlist	^[16]
	Elle Cosimano	Nearly Gone
	Lamar Giles	Fake ID
	Blake Nelson	The Prince of Venice Beach
2016	Mindy McGinnis	A Madness So Discreet	Winner	^[17]^[18]^[19]
	Lamar Giles	Endangered	Shortlist	^[19]
	Melinda Salisbury	The Sin Eater’s Daughter
	Nova Ren Suma	The Walls Around Us
	Henry Turner	Ask the Dark
2017	Monica Hesse	Girl in the Blue Coat	Winner	^[19]^[20]^[21]
	Brent Hartinger	Three Truths and a Lie	Shortlist	^[19]
	April Henry	The Girl I Used to Be
	Justine Larbalestier	My Sister Rosa
	Billy Taylor	Thieving Weasels
2018	Jason Reynolds	Long Way Down	Winner	^[19]^[22]^[23]
	Scott Bergstrom	The Cruelty	Shortlist	^[19]
	Gillian French	Grit
	Jason Rekulak	The Impossible Fortress
	Angie Thomas	The Hate U Give
2019	Courtney Summers	Sadie	Winner	^[19]^[24]^[25]
	Erin Bowman	Contagion	Shortlist	^[19]
	Sasha Dawn	Blink
	Will Hill	After the Fire
	Nova Ren Suma	A Room Away From the Wolves

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Naomi Kritzer	Catfishing on CatNet	Winner	^[26]
	Adriana Mather	Killing November	Shortlist	^[27]
	Randy Ribay	Patron Saints of Nothing
	Kristen Simmons	The Deceivers
	Leah Thomas	Wild and Crooked
2021	Katie Alender	The Companion	Winner	^[28]^[29]
	Jennifer Lynn Barnes	The Inheritance Games	Shortlist	^[30]
	Monica Hesse	They Went Left
	June Hur	Silence of Bones
	Karen M. McManus	The Cousins
2022	Angeline Boulley	Firekeeper's Daughter	Winner	^[31]^[32]
	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé	Ace of Spades	Shortlist	^[33]
	Pamela N. Harris	When You Look Like Us
	June Hur	The Forest of Stolen Girls
	Tess Sharpe	The Girls I've Been
2023	June Hur	The Red Palace	Winner	^[34]
	Alexa Donne	Pretty Dead Queens	Shortlist	^[35]
	Eva V. Gibson	Frightmares
	Juliana Goodman	The Black Girls Left Standing
	Vincent Ralph	Lock the Doors
2024	April Henry	Girl Forgotten	Winner	^[36]^[37]
	Matthew J. Kirby	Star Splitter	Shortlist	^[37]
	Cameron Kelly Rosenblum	The Sharp Edge of Silence
	Yvonne Woon	My Flawless Life
	Laura Zimmermann	Just Do This One Thing for Me

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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel

Winners

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