Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Agatha Awards and the Anthony Awards
20 books won both the Agatha Awards and the Anthony Awards between 2007 and 2025, most recently You Know What You Did (2025/2025). 106 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Agatha Awards · Anthony Awards
Won both
| Book | Author | Agatha Awards | Anthony Awards |
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| You Know What You Did | K.T. Nguyen |
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| Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade | Nancy Springer |
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| Arsenic and Adobo | Mia P. Manansala |
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| How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America | Lee Child, Laurie R. King |
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| I Play One on TV | Alan Orloff |
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| Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco | Richie Narvaez |
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| One Night Gone | Tara Laskowski |
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| The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women | Mo Moulton |
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| Hollywood Homicide | Kellye Garrett |
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| A Great Reckoning | Louise Penny |
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| Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Daniel Stashower |
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| Books To Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels | John Connolly, Declan Burke |
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| The Beautiful Mystery | Louise Penny |
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| Learning To Swim | Sara J. Henry |
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| Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making | John Curran |
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| Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny |
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| The Brutal Telling | Louise Penny |
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| The Crossroads | Chris Grabenstein |
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| Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters | Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Agatha Awards | Anthony Awards |
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| A Very Woodsy Murder | Ellen Byron |
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| Abingdon’s Boardinghouse Murder | Greg Lilly |
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| Ghosts of Waikīkī | Jennifer K. Morita |
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| Sasquatch of Harriman Lake | K.B. Jackson |
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| Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing the Columbo Killers | Chris Chan |
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| The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui | K.B. Jackson |
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| The Sherlock Society | James Ponti |
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| Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors' Perspectives on Their Craft | Phyllis M. Betz |
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| A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Mark Dawidziak |
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| Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose | Nancy Springer |
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| Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Robert Morgan |
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| Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction | Anjili Babbar |
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| Mother-Daughter Murder Night | Nina Simon |
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| Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity | Elizabeth C. Bunce |
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| The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle | Taryn Souders |
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| The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary | K. B. Jackson |
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| Time’s Undoing | Cheryl Head |
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| #shedeservedit | Greg Herren |
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| A World of Curiosities | Louise Penny |
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| Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman | Lucy Worsley |
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| Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron |
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| Daybreak on Raven Island | Fleur Bradley |
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| Death By Bubble Tea | Jennifer J. Chow |
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| Devil's Chew Toy | Rob Osler |
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| In Myrtle Peril | Elizabeth C. Bunce |
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| In Place of Fear | Catriona McPherson |
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| Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction | Diane Vallere |
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| The Bangalore Detectives Club | Harini Nagendra |
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| The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators | Martin Edwards |
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| The Lindbergh Nanny | Mariah Fredericks |
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| Under a Veiled Moon | Karen Odden |
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| Clark and Division | Naomi Hirahara |
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| Cold-Blooded Myrtle | Elizabeth Bunce |
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| Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche | Nancy Springer |
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| The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice | Jan Brogan |
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| The Forest of Stolen Girls | June Hur |
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| American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI | Kate Winkler Dawson |
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| Derailed | Mary Keliikoa |
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| From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Janae Marks |
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| Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club | Martin Edwards |
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| Midnight at the Barclay Hotel | Fleur Bradley |
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| Murder at the Mena House | Erica Ruth Neubauer |
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| Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | Christina Lane |
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| Premeditated Myrtle | Elizabeth C. Bunce |
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| Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy | Leslie Brody |
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| The Fate of a Flapper | Susanna Calkins |
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| The Lucky One | Lori Rader-Day |
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| Murder Knocks Twice | Susanna Calkins |
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| The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold |
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| The Murder List | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| The Pearl Dagger | L.A. Chandlar |
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| Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivate Your Readers | Jane K. Cleland |
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| What Doesn’t Kill You | Aimee Hix |
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| From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon | Mattias Boström |
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| Glass Houses | Louise Penny |
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| Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction | Jessica Lourey |
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| The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books | Martin Edwards |
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| Decanting a Murder | Nadine Nettmann |
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| Design for Dying | Renee Patrick |
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| Tag, You’re Dead | J.C. Lane |
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| Fighting Chance | B.K. Stevens |
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| Need | Joelle Charbonneau |
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| On the Road with Del & Louise | Art Taylor |
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| The Child Garden | Catriona McPherson |
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| The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story | Martin Edwards |
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| The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For | Kate White |
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| The Nature of the Beast | Louise Penny |
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| What You See | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice | Kate Clark Flora |
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| The Long Way Home | Louise Penny |
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| Truth Be Told | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library | Chris Grabenstein |
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| Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes | Maria Konnikova |
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| The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau |
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| The Wrong Girl | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| Through the Evil Days | Julia Spencer-Fleming |
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| Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 | Joseph Goodrich |
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| More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered | D.P. Lyle |
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| The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery | Mathew Prichard |
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| The Other Woman | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| A Trick of the Light | Louise Penny |
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| Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks | John Curran |
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| Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure | Leslie Budewitz |
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| On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling | Michael Dirda |
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| The Sookie Stackhouse Companion | Charlaine Harris |
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| Who Do, Voodoo? | Rochelle Staab |
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| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History | Yunte Huang |
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| Drive Time | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| Sherlock Holmes for Dummies | Stephen Doyle, David A. Crowder |
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| Air Time | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
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| Dame Agatha’s Shorts | Elena Santangelo |
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| In the Shadow of Gotham | Stefanie Pintoff |
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| Talking About Detective Fiction | P.D. James |
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| The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley |
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| The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith | Joan Schenkar |
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| African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study | Frankie Y. Bailey |
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| Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography | Jeffrey Marks |
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| Death of a Cozy Writer | G.M. Malliet |
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| How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries | Kathy Lynn Emerson |
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| Pushing Up Daisies | Rosemary Harris |
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| The Cruelest Month | Louise Penny |
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| All Mortal Flesh | Julia Spencer-Fleming |
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| Don’t Murder Your Mystery | Chris Roerden |
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| Mystery Muses | Jim Huang, Austin Lugar |
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| The Beautiful Cigar Girl | Daniel Stashower |
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| The Virgin of Small Plains | Nancy Pickard |
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