Bucheron is also the conference that hands out the Anthony Award, one of the best in the crime fiction world. While the winners won’t be announced until Saturday, readers of this blog know that I feel very strongly that the official nominee list is more important to our work than who wins.
If you don’t know what I am referring to, no worries, simply click here for the original post about Using Awards Lists As A RA Tool [2011] or here for every single time I have mentioned it since. But the gist is that the short lists give us a great suggestion tool for “good reads” in a specific reading interest area. Also there are collection development, readalike, and display uses too.
The very best literary awards websites also give us easy access to the full back list of all nominees and winners, and here the Anthony Awards site also shines. Here is the easy to use page for all Anthony Award winners and nominees going back to the 1980s.
Mystery reads are among our most voracious readers at the library, and are often the ones who tell us they have already “read everything” we have. We have to work harder to help them and can use all of the resources we can get.
Speaking of, besides having a wide range of fiction and nonfiction nominees, the Anthony Awards also honor “Online Content.” At the very least, take a look at the last few years of nominees in this category to add to your repertoire as you help crime fiction readers.
Below, I have reposted the current nominees for this year. Winners will be announced on Saturday, but you can start suggesting any of these titles [or past year’s nominees] right now. Seriously...your next patron could benefit from your suggestion from this post.
Anthony Awards
The Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious awards in crime fiction.
Winners will be announced at the Anthony Awards ceremony on Saturday, September 8, 2018. Everyone who is registered for Bouchercon is encouraged to vote on the Anthonys (voting happens on-site), and is welcome and encouraged to attend the award ceremony!
Nominees for the 2018 Anthony Awards are:
BEST NOVEL
- The Late Show by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz [HarperCollins]
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke [Mulholland]
- Glass Houses by Louise Penny [Minotaur Books]
- The Force by Don Winslow [William Morrow]
BEST FIRST NOVEL
- Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett [Midnight Ink]
- She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper [Ecco]
- The Dry by Jane Harper [Flatiron Books]
- Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All by Christopher Irvin [Cutlass Press]
- The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka [Minotaur Books]
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
- Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann [Midnight Ink]
- Bad Boy Boogie by Thomas Pluck [Down & Out Books]
- What We Reckon by Eryk Pruitt [Polis Books]
- The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day [William Morrow]
- Cast the First Stone by James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street Books]
BILL CRIDER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL IN A SERIES
- Give Up the Dead (Jay Porter #3) by Joe Clifford [Oceanview Publishing]
- Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
- Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton [A Marian Wood Book]
- Glass Houses (Armand Gamache #13) by Louise Penny [Minotaur Books]
- Dangerous Ends (Pete Fernandez #3) by Alex Segura [Polis Books]
BEST SHORT STORY
- The Trial of Madame Pelletier by Susanna Calkins from Malice Domestic 12: Mystery Most Historical [Wildside Press]
- God’s Gonna Cut You Down by Jen Conley from Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash [Gutter Books LLC]
- My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon [Down & Out Books]
- Whose Wine Is It Anyway by Barb Goffman from 50 Shades of Cabernet [Koehler Books]
- The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place by Debra H. Goldstein from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017 [Dell]
- A Necessary Ingredient by Art Taylor from Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea [Down & Out Books]
BEST ANTHOLOGY
- Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash, Joe Clifford, editor [Gutter Books LLC]
- Killing Malmon, Dan & Kate Malmon, editors [Down & Out Books]
- Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Andrew McAleer & Paul D. Marks, editors [Down & Out Books]
- Passport to Murder, Bouchercon Anthology 2017, John McFetridge, editor [Down & Out Books]
- The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor [Three Rooms Press]
BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION BOOK
- From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon by Mattias Boström [The Mysterious Press]
- The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards [Poisoned Pen Press]
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann [Doubleday]
- Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson [W.W. Norton & Company]
- Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction by Jessica Lourey [Conari Press]
BEST ONLINE CONTENT
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