* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Best Novel | Come Morning | Joe Gores | Mysterious Press | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | The Blind Run | Brian Freemantle | Bantam | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | The Straight Man | Roger L. Simon | Villard | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | The Suspect | L.R. Wright | Viking | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | A Shock to the System | Simon Brett | Scribners | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | An Unkindness of Ravens | Ruth Rendell | Pantheon | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1 | Paul Auster | Sun & Moon Press | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | The Tree of Hands | Ruth Rendell | Pantheon | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Briar Patch | Ross Thomas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Chessplayer | William Pearson | Viking | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Black Seraphim | Michael Gilbert | Harper & Row | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Twelfth Juror | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | La Brava | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | Texas Station | Christopher Leach | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Little Drummer Girl | John le Carre | Knopf | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Papers of Tony Veitch | William McIlvanney | Pantheon | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Eight Million Ways to Die | Lawrence Block | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Kahawa | Donald E. Westlake | Viking | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Split Images | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | The Captain | Seymour Shubin | Stein & Day | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Peregrine | William Bayer | Congdon & Lattes | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Bogmail | Patrick McGinley | Ticknor & Fields | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Death in a Cold Climate | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Dupe | Liza Cody | Scribners | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | The Amateur | Robert Littell | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | The Other Side of Silence | Ted Allbeury | Scribners | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Whip Hand | Dick Francis | Harper & Row | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Death Drop | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Death of a Literary Widow | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Man on Fire | A.J. Quinnell | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | The Spy's Wife | Reginald Hill | Pantheon | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling | Harper & Row | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | A Coat of Varnish | C.P. Snow | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Death of a Mystery Writer | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Fire in the Barley | Frank Parrish | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Make Death Love Me | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | Arbor House | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | A Sleeping Life | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | Listening Woman | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Shallow Grave | Jack S. Scott | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Snake | John Godey | Putnam | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Laidlaw | William McIlvanney | Pantheon | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Nightwing | Martin Cruz Smith | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | A Madness of the Heart | Richard Neely | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Cavanaugh Quest | Thomas Gifford | Putnam | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Glory Boys | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Main | Trevanian | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield | M. Evans | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Harry's Game | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Operation Alcestic | Maggie Rennert | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Gargoyle Conspiracy | Marvin Albert | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Money Harvest | Ross Thomas | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | Peter's Pence | Jon Cleary | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | Goodbye and Amen | Francis Clifford | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Lester Affair | Andrew Garve | Harper & Row | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Man Who Loved Zoos | Malcolm Bosse | Putnam | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Silver Bears | Paul E. Erdman | Scribners | |
| 1974 | Best Novel | Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1974 | Best Novel | Amigo, Amigo | Francis Clifford | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1974 | Best Novel | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | P.D. James | Scribners | |
| 1974 | Best Novel | Dear Laura | Jean Stubbs | Stein & Day | |
| 1974 | Best Novel | The Rainbird Pattern | Victor Canning | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer | Random House | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Canto for a Gypsy | Martin Cruz Smith | Putnam | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Five Pieces of Jade | John Ball | Little, Brown | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | The Shooting Gallery | Hugh C. Rae | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Tied Up in Tinsel | Ngaio Marsh | Little, Brown | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | Viking | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Shroud for a Nightingale | P.D. James | Scribners | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Sir, You Bastard | G.F. Newman | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | The Fly on the Wall | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Who Killed Enoch Powell? | Arthur Wise | Harper & Row | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo | Pantheon | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | Autumn of a Hunter | Pat Stadley | Random House | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | Beyond this Point Are Monsters | Margaret Millar | Random House | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | Many Deadly Returns | Patricia Moyes | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | The Hot Rock | Donald E. Westlake | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1971 | Best Novel | The Hound and the Fox and the Harper | Shaun Herron | Random House | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | Forfeit | Dick Francis | Harper & Row | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | Blind Man with a Pistol | Chester Himes | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | Miro | Shaun Herron | Random House | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | The Old English Peep Show | Peter Dickinson | Harper & Row | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | When in Greece | Emma Lathen | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1970 | Best Novel | Where the Dark Streets Go | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Scribners | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | A Case of Need | Jeffery Hudson | World | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest | Peter Dickinson | Harper & Row | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | Blood Sport | Dick Francis | Harper & Row | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | God Speed the Night | Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Jerome Ross | Scribners | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | Picture Miss Seeton | Heron Carvic | Harper & Row | |
| 1969 | Best Novel | The Valentine Estate | Stanley Ellin | Random House | |
| 1968 | Best Novel | God Save the Mark | Donald E. Westlake | Random House | |
| 1968 | Best Novel | A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures | George Baxt | Random House | |
| 1968 | Best Novel | Flying Finish | Dick Francis | Harper & Row | |
| 1968 | Best Novel | Lemon in the Basket | Charlotte Armstrong | Coward-McCann | |
| 1968 | Best Novel | Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | Random House |