A special Anthony Award committee (separate from the Board of National Bouchercon and the Local Organizing Committee) manages all parts of the process. Nominations are due April 30th. Nominations are counted and the finalists announced around May 7th.
Voting occurs at Bouchercon 2023. You must be present to vote. Voting ends early on Saturday and the award are presented to the winner at the Anthony Awards on Saturday evening (after the Banquet).
2023 Categories: Best Hardcover Best Paperback/Audiobook/Ebook original Best Debut (First Novel) Best Humorous Best Historical Best Children’s/YA Best Nonfiction/Critical Best Anthology Best Short Story 2022 Finalists to be voted on at Bouchercon 2023 BEST HARDCOVER TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Like A Sister Kellye Garrett Mulholland Books Hardcover 03/08/2022 9780316256704 The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias Mulholland Books Hardcover 08/02/2022 9780316426916 The Bullet that Missed Richard Osman Pamela Dorman Books Hardcover 09/20/2022 9780593299395 A World of Curiosities Louise Penny Minotaur Books Hardcover 11/29/2022 9781250145291 The Maid Nita Prose Ballantine Books Hardcover 1/04/2022 9780593356159 Secret Identity Alex Segura Flatiron Books Hardcover 03/15/2022 9781250801746
TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Don’t Know Tough Eli Cranor Soho Crime Hardcover 03/22/2022 9781641293457 Shutter Ramona Emerson Soho Crime Hardcover 08/02/2022 9781641293334 The Bangalore Detectives Club Harini Nagendra Pegasus Books Hardcover 05/03/2022 9781639361595 Devil’s Chew Toy Rob Osler Crooked Lane Books Hardcover 02/08/2022 9781643859439 The Maid Nita Prose Ballantine Books HardcoverPaperback 01/04/2022 9780593356159
BEST HUMOROUS NOVEL TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Bayou Book Thief Ellen Byron Berkley Books Paperback 06/07/2022 9780593437612 Death by Bubble Tea Jennifer J. Chow Berkley Books Paperback 07/05/2022 9780593336533 A Streetcar Named Murder T.G. Herren Crooked Lane Books Hardcover 12/06/2022 9781639101320 Scot in a Trap Catriona McPherson Severn House Hardcover 12/06/2022 9781448307685 Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking Raquel V. Reyes Crooked Lane Books Hardcover 10/11/2022 9781639101061
BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN The Lindbergh Nanny Mariah Fredericks Minotaur Books Hardcover 11/15/2022 9781250827401 In Place of Fear Catriona McPherson Mobius Hardcover 06/28/2022 9781529337969 Anywhere You Run Wanda M. Morris William Morrow & Company Hardcover Paperback 10/25/2022 9780063271821 9780063082502 Danger on the Atlantic Erica Ruth Neubauer Kensington Publishing Corporation Hardcover 03/29/2022 9781496725912 Under a Veiled Moon Karen Odden Crooked Lane Books Hardcover 10/11/2022 9781639101191 Lavender House Lev AC Rosen Forge Hardcover 10/18/2022 9781250834225
BEST PAPERBACK/EBOOK/AUDIOBOOK TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Real Bad Things Kelly J. Ford Thomas & Mercer PaperbackAudio 09/01/2022 9781662500091 Dead Drop James L’Etoile Level Best Books Paperback 07/19/2022 9781685121143 The Quarry Girls Jess Lourey Thomas & Mercer Paperback 11/01/2022 9781542034296 Hush Hush Gabriel Valjan Historia Paperback 01/11/2022 9781685120436 In the Dark We Forget Sandra SG Wong HarperCollins Publishers Paperback 06/21/2022 9781443466042
BEST CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT NOVEL TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN In Myrtle Peril Elizabeth C. Bunce Algonquin Young Readers Hardcover 10/04/2022 9781616209216 Daybreak on Raven Island Fleur Bradley Viking Books for Young Readers Hardcover 08/23/2022 9780593404638 #shedeservedit Greg Herren Bold Strokes Books Paperback 01/11/2022 9781635559965 The New Girl Jesse Q. Sutanto Sourcebooks Fire Paperback 02/01/2022 9781728215198 Vanish Me Lee Matthew Goldberg Wise Wolf Books Paperback 02/10/2022 9781953944214 Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade Nancy Springer Wednesday Books Hardcover 09/06/2022 9781250822970
BEST SHORT STORY TITLE AUTHOR SOURCE PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Still Crazy After All These Years E.A. Aymar Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon Down & Out Books Paperback 10/31/2022 9781643962917 The Impediment Bruce Robert Coffin Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022 Crime Spell Books Paperback 10/05/2022 9780997352092 Beauty and the Beyotch Barb Goffman Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Feb. 2022, Issue 29 Magazine 02/01/2022 The Estate Sale Curtis Ippolito Vautrin Magazine, Summer 2022 Magazine 07/25/2022 C.O.D. Gabriel Valjan Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote Berry Content Corporation Paperback 05/15/2022 9781732225862
BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets and the Hollywood Story That Shocked America James T. Bartlett Territory Books Paperback 03/22/2022 9781087959788 The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators Martin Edwards Collins Crime Club Hardcover 08/30/2022 9780008192426 American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper Daniel Stashower Minotaur Books Hardcover 09/06/2022 9781250041166 Promophobia: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction Diane Vallere Sisters in Crime Paperback 12/28/2022 9798987261620 Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment. and the Courts to Set Him Free Sarah Weinman Ecco Press Hardcover 02/22/2022 9780062899767 Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman Lucy Worsley Pegasus Crime Hardcover 09/06/2023 9781639362523
BEST ANTHOLOGY TITLE EDITOR PUBLISHER FORMAT PUB DATE ISBN Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote Mysti Berry Berry Content Corporation Paperback 05/15/2022 9781732225862 Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor Down & Out Books Paperback 06/13/2022 9781643962665 Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022 Greg Herren Down & Out Books Paperback 09/08/2022 9781643962900 Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon Josh Pachter Down & Out Books Paperback 10/31/2022 9781643962917 Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top Authors S.J. Rozan Hanover Square Press Hardcover 04/19/2022 9781335425799