Book prize

Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel winners

3 winners and 6 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel has 3 winners we hold, from 1995 to 2024, and 6 nominees. The most recent winner here is The Eyes Are the Best Part (2024), first published by Erewhon Books in 2024. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2024 The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim First edition: Erewhon Books 2024
  2. 2007 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill First edition not yet identified
  3. 2002 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold First edition: Little, Brown 2002
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2021 Rabbits by Terry Miles First edition: Pan Macmillan 2021
  2. 2014 Bird Box by Josh Malerman First edition: Ecco 2014
  3. 2003 Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2003
  4. 2000 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski First edition not yet identified
  5. 1999 King Rat by China Miéville First edition not yet identified
  6. 1995 The Between by Tananarive Due First edition: HarperCollins 1995

Prize records from Wikidata (CC0). Only books in our catalogue are listed.

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