Book prize

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel winners

4 winners 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 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel has 4 winners we hold, from 1955 to 2015. The most recent winner here is Mr. Mercedes (2015), first published by Scribner in 2014. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2015 Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King First edition: Scribner 2014
  2. 1979 Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett First edition: Futura 1978
  3. 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre First edition: Victor Gollancz 1963 £400 to £555
  4. 1955 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler First edition: Hamish Hamilton 1953

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