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Anthony Awards 2017
The 2017 Anthony Awards went to Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 by Greg Herren (Best Anthology or Collection), The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry (Best Children's/Young Adult) and Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (Best Critical/Nonfiction Work), with winners in 3 more categories. 31 books were nominated across 6 categories.
Winners
Best Anthology or Collection
- Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016source (opens in a new tab)
Best Children's/Young Adult
- The Girl I Used to Besource (opens in a new tab)
Best Critical/Nonfiction Work
Best First Novel
Best Paperback Original
- Heart of Stonesource (opens in a new tab)
Nominees
Best Anthology or Collection
- Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrenssource (opens in a new tab)
- In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hoppersource (opens in a new tab)
- Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Gunssource (opens in a new tab)
- Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by the Replacementssource (opens in a new tab)
Best Children's/Young Adult
- My Sister Rosasource (opens in a new tab)
- Snowedsource (opens in a new tab)
- Tag, You’re Deadsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Fixessource (opens in a new tab)
Best Critical/Nonfiction Work
- Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- Letters from a Serial Killersource (opens in a new tab)
- Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Draculasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderersource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Novel
- Decanting a Murdersource (opens in a new tab)
- Design for Dyingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Dodgerssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Driftersource (opens in a new tab)
Best Novel
Best Paperback Original
- How To Kill Friends and Implicate Peoplesource (opens in a new tab)
- Leadfootsource (opens in a new tab)
- Rain Dogssource (opens in a new tab)
- Salem’s Ciphersource (opens in a new tab)
- Shot in Detroitsource (opens in a new tab)
About the Anthony Awards
Book categories only; short story, novella, cover art, audiobook narration, TV, website, fan and service awards are skipped. Year is the Bouchercon year. Sources: Bouchercon's own winners-and-nominees pages for 2006-2019, 2023 and 2024; bouchercon.com has no pages for 2020-2022 or 2025, so those years come from Stop, You're Killing Me! (stopyourekillingme.com), with winners checked against Wikipedia and 2025 press reports. Three official cells are wrong or short and cite Stop, You're Killing Me! instead: 2009 Paperback Original (official page repeats Scot & Soda, a 2020 nominee), 2023 Best Novel (official page omits finalist The Maid), and 2024 Anthology (official page omits Happiness Is a Warm Gun). Stable category names: Best Novel was Best Hardcover Novel in 2021 and 2023-2025; Best Paperback Original became Paperback/E-book/Audiobook Original from 2021; Best Children's/Young Adult covers the Children's/YA, Young Adult (2016, 2020) and Juvenile/YA labels; Best Humorous Novel was Cozy/Humorous in 2025. Categories that did not run in a year have count 0. The 2015 Critical/Nonfiction nominee Dru's Book Musings is a website but is listed as the organization named it.
Organization: Bouchercon. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards 182 shared books
- Macavity Awards 173 shared books
- Agatha Awards 126 shared books
- Barry Awards 109 shared books
- Lefty Awards 88 shared books