Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! is an annual mystery fiction guide book published by Takarajimasha. The guide book publishes a list of the top ten mystery books published in Japan in the previous year.
1988
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1988| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Trevanian | The Main |
| 2 | Scott Turow | Presumed Innocent |
| 3 | P. D. James | A Taste for Death |
| 3 | Bob Langley | Traverse of the Gods |
| 5 | Andrew Vachss | Strega |
| 6 | Robert Littell | The Sisters |
| 7 | Michael Z. Lewin | Late Payments |
| 8 | William Diehl | Hooligans |
| 9 | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye |
| 10 | H. F. Saint | Memoirs of an Invisible Man |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yoichi Funado | |
| 2 | Ryo Hara | |
| 3 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 4 | Joh Sasaki | English translation: Zero Over Berlin |
| 5 | Soji Shimada | |
| 6 | Futari Okajima | |
| 7 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 8 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 9 | Go Osaka | |
| 9 | Yoshinaga Fujita |
1989
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1989| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 2 | Stephen Hunter | The Day Before Midnight |
| 3 | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones |
| 4 | Elmore Leonard | Freaky Deaky |
| 4 | Michael Z. Lewin | Out of Season |
| 6 | Nelson DeMille | Word of Honor |
| 7 | Craig Thomas | The Bear's Tears |
| 8 | Brian Freemantle | Charlie Muffin San |
| 9 | Leonard Wise | Doc's Legacy |
| 10 | Reginald Hill | Child's Play |
| 10 | Rick Boyer | The Daisy Ducks |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Ryo Hara | |
| 2 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 3 | Soji Shimada | |
| 4 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 5 | Futari Okajima | |
| 6 | Ikki Kazama | |
| 6 | Tatsuo Shimizu | |
| 8 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 9 | Keiichiro Ryu | |
| 10 | Ichi Orihara |
1991
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1991| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose |
| 2 | Andrew Vachss | Blue Belle |
| 3 | James Ellroy | The Black Dahlia |
| 4 | Stephen King | Misery |
| 5 | Christianna Brand | Buffet for Unwelcome Guests |
| 6 | Ken Grimwood | Replay |
| 7 | Wilbur Smith | The Eye of the Tiger |
| 8 | Michael Z. Lewin | And Baby Will Fall |
| 9 | Patricia Highsmith | Eleven |
| 10 | William Diehl | Thai Horse |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Arimasa Osawa | English translation: Shinjuku Shark |
| 2 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 3 | Yoichi Funado | |
| 4 | Koshu Tani | |
| 5 | Ryo Hara | |
| 6 | Tatsuo Shimizu | |
| 7 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 8 | Yoshinaga Fujita | |
| 9 | Miyuki Miyabe | English translation: The Devil's Whisper |
| 10 | Soji Shimada |
1992
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1992| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | P. D. James | Devices and Desires |
| 2 | Thomas H. Cook | Flesh and Blood |
| 3 | Shirley Conran | Savages |
| 4 | Patricia Highsmith | The Cry of the Owl |
| 5 | Keith Peterson | There Fell A Shadow |
| 6 | Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park |
| 7 | Bernard Cornwell | Sea Lord |
| 7 | Jim Thompson | The Killer Inside Me |
| 9 | Robert R. McCammon | Stinger |
| 10 | George C. Chesbro | Bone |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Tatsuo Shimizu | |
| 2 | Arimasa Osawa | English translation: The Poison Ape |
| 3 | Itsura Inami | |
| 4 | Miyuki Miyabe | English translation: The Sleeping Dragon |
| 5 | Soji Shimada | |
| 6 | Nanami Wakatake | |
| 7 | Go Osaka | |
| 8 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 9 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 10 | Kenji Takemoto |
1993
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1993| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence |
| 2 | Lawrence Block | A Ticket to the Boneyard |
| 3 | Thomas H. Cook | Streets of Fire |
| 4 | Stephen King | It |
| 5 | Ross Thomas | Twilight at Mac's Place |
| 6 | Philip Kerr | March Violets |
| 7 | Nelson DeMille | The Gold Coast |
| 8 | David Martin | Lie to Me |
| 9 | John Grisham | The Firm |
| 10 | Robert Reeves | Peeping Thomas |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yoichi Funado | |
| 2 | Miyuki Miyabe | English translation: All She Was Worth |
| 3 | Kiyoshi Kasai | |
| 4 | Mangetsu Hanamura | |
| 5 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 6 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 6 | Yumehito Inoue | |
| 8 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 9 | Hosei Hahakigi | |
| 10 | Kaoru Takamura |
1994
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1994| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Mitchell Smith | Stone City |
| 2 | Scott Turow | The Burden of Proof |
| 3 | Stephen Greenleaf | Book Case |
| 4 | Dean Koontz | Watchers |
| 5 | Colin Dexter | The Way Through the Woods |
| 6 | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse |
| 7 | Keith Peterson | Rough Justice |
| 8 | Michael Innes | Lament for a Maker |
| 9 | David Lorne | Sight Unseen |
| 10 | Peter Lovesey | The Last Detective |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 2 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 3 | Itsura Inami | |
| 4 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 5 | Ramo Nakajima | |
| 6 | Tomoko Kano | |
| 6 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 8 | Go Osaka | |
| 9 | Ichi Orihara | |
| 10 | Yuichi Shimpo |
1995
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1995| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Scott Smith | A Simple Plan |
| 2 | Don Winslow | A Cool Breeze on the Underground |
| 3 | Donald E. Westlake | Dancing Aztecs |
| 4 | R. D. Wingfield | Frost at Christmas |
| 5 | Nelson DeMille | The General's Daughter |
| 6 | Andrew Vachss | Shella |
| 7 | Minette Walters | The Ice House |
| 8 | Stuart Woods | Grass Roots |
| 9 | Michael Connelly | The Black Ice |
| 10 | Akif Pirinçci | Felidae |
| 10 | Liza Cody | Bucket Nut |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 2 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 3 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 4 | Mangetsu Hanamura | |
| 5 | Itsura Inami | |
| 5 | Itsura Inami | |
| 7 | Jiro Asada | |
| 7 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | English translation: The Summer of the Ubume |
| 9 | Toru Shirakawa | |
| 10 | Rintaro Norizuki |
1996
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1996| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress |
| 2 | Robert R. McCammon | Boy's Life |
| 3 | Lawrence Block | The Devil Knows You're Dead |
| 4 | Michael Connelly | The Concrete Blonde |
| 5 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | The Second Shot |
| 6 | Scott Turow | Pleading Guilty |
| 7 | John Gardner | Maestro |
| 8 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort |
| 9 | Patrick Ruell | The Only Game |
| 10 | Jean Vautrin | Billy-Ze-Kick |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yuichi Shimpo | |
| 2 | Yoshinaga Fujita | |
| 3 | Yoichi Funado | |
| 4 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 5 | Ryo Hara | |
| 6 | Iori Fujiwara | |
| 7 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 8 | Katsufumi Umehara | |
| 9 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 10 | Hideaki Sena | English translation: Parasite Eve |
| 10 | Arimasa Osawa |
1997
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1997| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | John Dunning | Booked to Die |
| 2 | James Ellroy | White Jazz |
| 3 | Peter Lovesey | The Summons |
| 4 | Dick Francis | Come To Grief |
| 5 | James Crumley | The Mexican Tree Duck |
| 6 | Joe R. Lansdale | Two-Bear Mambo |
| 7 | Michael Connelly | The Last Coyote |
| 8 | P. D. James | Original Sin |
| 9 | Lorenzo Carcaterra | Sleepers |
| 10 | John le Carré | Our Game |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Seishu Hase | |
| 2 | Yuichi Shimpo | |
| 3 | Keigo Higashino | |
| 4 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 5 | Toru Shirakawa | |
| 6 | Jiro Asada | |
| 7 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 8 | Arata Tendo | |
| 9 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 10 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa |
1998
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1998| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | R. D. Wingfield | A Touch of Frost |
| 2 | Joel Townsley Rogers | The Red Right Hand |
| 3 | Stephen King | The Green Mile |
| 4 | Minette Walters | The Scold's Bridle |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | A Maiden's Grave |
| 6 | Robert Goddard | Into the Blue |
| 6 | Thomas Sigismund Stribling | Clues of the Caribbees |
| 8 | Stephen Hunter | Dirty White Boys |
| 9 | Donald E. Westlake | Good Behavior |
| 10 | John Dunning | The Bookman's Wake |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Natsuo Kirino | English translation: Out |
| 2 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 3 | Hiroko Minagawa | |
| 4 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 5 | Seishu Hase | |
| 6 | Baku Yumemakura | |
| 7 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 8 | Hosei Hahakigi | |
| 9 | Riku Onda | |
| 10 | Arimasa Osawa |
1999
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1999| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Theodore Roszak | Flicker |
| 2 | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair |
| 3 | Stephen Hunter | Black Light |
| 4 | Elizabeth Ferrars | Don't Monkey with Murder |
| 5 | Charles Palliser | The Quincunx |
| 6 | Ian Rankin | Black and Blue |
| 7 | Helen McCloy | She Walks Alone |
| 8 | Douglas Kennedy | Big Picture |
| 8 | Robert Goddard | Painting the Darkness |
| 10 | Dennis Lehman | The Getbacks of Mother Superior |
| 10 | James Ellroy | American Tabloid |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Kaoru Takamura | |
| 2 | Go Osaka | |
| 3 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 4 | Fuyumi Ono | Shiki |
| 5 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 6 | Ryoichi Kano | |
| 7 | Hikaru Okuizumi | |
| 8 | Toichiro Kujira | |
| 9 | Keigo Higashino | English translation: Naoko |
| 9 | Reito Nikaido |
2000
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2000| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Stephen Hunter | Point of Impact |
| 2 | Jeffery Deaver | The Bone Collector |
| 3 | Thomas H. Cook | Breakheart Hill |
| 4 | Leo Bruce | Case for Three Detectives |
| 5 | Richard Stark | Comeback |
| 6 | Carol O'Connell | Judas Child |
| 7 | Thomas H. Cook | Mortal Memory |
| 8 | John le Carré | The Tailor of Panama |
| 9 | Ian Rankin | Let it Bleed |
| 9 | Thomas Sigismund Stribling | Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Arata Tendo | |
| 2 | Keigo Higashino | English translation: Journey Under the Midnight Sun |
| 3 | Harutoshi Fukui | |
| 4 | Koushun Takami | English translation: Battle Royale |
| 5 | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 6 | Yuichi Shimpo | |
| 7 | Hideo Okuda | |
| 8 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 9 | Masayuki Shuno | |
| 10 | Takayoshi Honda |
2001
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2001| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Jim Thompson | Pop. 1280 |
| 2 | Seamus Smyth | Quinn |
| 3 | Thomas Harris | Hannibal |
| 4 | Scott Turow | Personal Injuries |
| 5 | Lawrence Norfolk | Lemprière's Dictionary |
| 6 | Michael Connelly | Blood Work |
| 7 | Thomas H. Cook | Instruments of Night |
| 8 | Dennis Lehane | Darkness, Take My Hand |
| 9 | Richard North Patterson | Eyes of a Child |
| 10 | Jeffery Deaver | The Coffin Dancer |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Tsumao Awasaka | |
| 2 | Hideo Yokoyama | Motive and other stories |
| 3 | Go Osaka | |
| 4 | Yumehito Inoue | |
| 5 | Kazuichi Iijima | |
| 6 | Riku Onda | |
| 6 | Yoichi Funado | English translation: May in the Valley of the Rainbow |
| 8 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 9 | Toshiyuki Tajima | |
| 10 | Harutoshi Fukui |
2002
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2002| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Boston Teran | God is a Bullet |
| 2 | R. D. Wingfield | Night Frost |
| 2 | James Ellroy | The Cold Six Thousand |
| 4 | Donald E. Westlake | The Ax |
| 5 | Thomas H. Cook | Places in the Dark |
| 6 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | Jumping Jenny |
| 7 | Jill McGown | The Stalking Horse |
| 8 | Stephen King | The Stand |
| 9 | Dorothy L. Sayers | Gaudy Night |
| 10 | Dennis Lehane | Mystic River |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Miyuki Miyabe | English translation: Puppet Master |
| 2 | Hideo Okuda | |
| 3 | Masaki Yamada | |
| 4 | Ryuichi Kasumi | |
| 5 | Keigo Higashino | |
| 6 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 7 | Futaro Yamada | |
| 8 | Kazuaki Takano | |
| 8 | Otaro Maijo | |
| 10 | Go Osaka |
2003
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2003| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Jeremy Dronfield | The Locust Farm |
| 2 | T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe |
| 3 | Seamus Smyth | Red Dock |
| 4 | Paul Halter | The Fourth Door |
| 5 | Jim Thompson | A Hell of a Woman |
| 6 | Gerald Kersh | The Oxoxoco Bottle and other stories |
| 7 | Eric Garcia | Anonymous Rex |
| 8 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | The Layton Court Mystery |
| 9 | Jean Vautrin | Groom |
| 10 | Michael Slade | Ripper |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Hideo Yokoyama | |
| 2 | Otsuichi | English translation: Goth: A Novel of Horror |
| 3 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 4 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 5 | Bunzo Uchiumi | |
| 6 | Yuri Mitsuhara | Eighteenth Summer and other stories |
| 7 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 8 | Hitoshi Karasawa | |
| 9 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 10 | Kiyoshi Kasai |
2004
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2004| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Sarah Waters | Affinity |
| 2 | Michael Gilbert | Death in Captivity |
| 3 | Robert R. McCammon | Speaks the Nightbird |
| 4 | Richard North Patterson | Silent Witness |
| 5 | Donald E. Westlake | The Hook |
| 6 | Joe R. Lansdale | A Fine Dark Line |
| 7 | William Landay | Mission Flats |
| 8 | Helen McCloy | The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories |
| 9 | Theodore Sturgeon | The Man Who Lost the Sea and other stories |
| 10 | Percival Wilde | P. Moran, Operative |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Shogo Utano | |
| 2 | Harutoshi Fukui | |
| 3 | Kotaro Isaka | |
| 4 | Hideo Yokoyama | |
| 5 | Natsuo Kirino | English translation: Grotesque |
| 6 | Kotaro Isaka | |
| 7 | Hideo Yokoyama | |
| 8 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 9 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 10 | Ryosuke Kakine |
2005
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2005| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Sarah Waters | Fingersmith |
| 2 | Jeffery Deaver | The Vanished Man |
| 3 | Trevanian | Incident at Twenty-Mile |
| 4 | Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code |
| 4 | James Crumley | The Final Country |
| 6 | A. H. Z. Carr | The Trial of John Nobody and other stories |
| 7 | Richard North Patterson | Dark Lady |
| 8 | Minette Walters | The Shape of Snakes |
| 9 | Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog |
| 10 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 2 | Kotaro Isaka | |
| 3 | Hajime Amagi | |
| 4 | Toshihiko Yahagi | |
| 5 | Jun Saito | |
| 6 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 7 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 8 | Shusuke Shizukui | |
| 9 | Hideo Yokoyama | |
| 10 | Taku Ashibe | English translation: Murder in the Red Chamber |
2006
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2006| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Jack Ritchie | The Crime Machine and other stories |
| 2 | Michael Connelly | Lost Light |
| 3 | James Carlos Blake | A World of Thieves |
| 4 | Theodore Sturgeon | Bright Segment and other stories |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | Garden of Beasts |
| 6 | Jack Kerley | The Hundredth Man |
| 6 | T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl |
| 8 | Michael Innes | Stop Press |
| 9 | P. G. Wodehouse | |
| 10 | Stanley Ellin | The Last Bottle in the World and other stories |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Keigo Higashino | English translation: The Devotion of Suspect X |
| 2 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 3 | Hideo Yokoyama | |
| 4 | Ryo hara | |
| 5 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 6 | Iori Fujiwara | |
| 7 | Hideo Furukawa | English translation: Belka, Why Don't You Bark? |
| 8 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 8 | Hajime Amagi | |
| 10 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 10 | Yuri Mitsuhara |
2007
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2007| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Laurie Lynn Drummond | Anything You Say Can and Will be Used Against You |
| 2 | Jeffery Deaver | Twisted |
| 2 | James Carlos Blake | Under the Skin |
| 4 | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | The Shadow of the Wind |
| 5 | Adam Fawer | Improbable |
| 6 | Jeffery Deaver | The Twelfth Card |
| 7 | Richard Matheson | Now You See It... |
| 7 | Michael Connelly | The Narrows |
| 9 | David Alexander | Hangman's Dozen |
| 10 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yumeaki Hirayama | |
| 2 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 3 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 4 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 5 | Otsuichi | |
| 6 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 7 | Ryoichi Kano | |
| 8 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 9 | Keigo Higashino | |
| 10 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 10 | Keisuke Tatekura |
2008
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2008| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Jeffery Deaver | The Cold Moon |
| 2 | Carl Hiaasen | Skinny Dip |
| 3 | David Peace | Tokyo Year Zero |
| 4 | Robert Twohy | The Man Who Could Only Write Things and other stories |
| 5 | D. M. Devine | Devil at Your Elbow |
| 6 | Joe Gores | Cases |
| 7 | Paul Halter | La Chambre du Fou |
| 7 | Jack Kerley | The Death Collectors |
| 9 | William Brittain | The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr and other stories |
| 9 | Henning Mankell | Sidetracked |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 2 | Kazuki Sakuraba | English translation: |
| 3 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 4 | Bin Konno | |
| 5 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 6 | Haruo Yamazawa | |
| 7 | Fumie Kondo | |
| 8 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 9 | Ryuichi Kasumi | |
| 10 | Ko Kojo | |
| 10 | Honobu Yonezawa |
2009
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2009| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 |
| 2 | R. D. Wingfield | Hard Frost |
| 3 | Dennis Lehane | The Given Day |
| 4 | Joe Hill | 20th Century Ghosts |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | The Sleeping Doll |
| 6 | Henning Mankell | The Return of the Dancing Master |
| 7 | S. J. Rozan | Winter and Night |
| 8 | Troy Cook | 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers |
| 9 | Steve Hockensmith | Holmes on the Range |
| 10 | D. M. Devine | This Is Your Death |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Kotaro Isaka | English translation: Remote Control |
| 2 | Koji Yanagi | Joker Game |
| 3 | Masaki Tsuji | |
| 4 | Kanae Minato | English translation: Confessions |
| 5 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 6 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 7 | Toshiyuki Tajima | |
| 8 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 9 | Otaro Maijo | |
| 10 | Shusuke Michio |
2010
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2010| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Don Winslow | The Power of the Dog |
| 2 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| 3 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
| 4 | Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | The Broken Window |
| 6 | Tom Rob Smith | The Secret Speech |
| 7 | John Hart | Down River |
| 8 | Donald E. Westlake | Thieves' Dozen |
| 9 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl Who Played with Fire |
| 10 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer |
| 10 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Keigo Higashino | |
| 2 | Koji Yanagi | |
| 3 | Yukito Ayatsuji | English translation: Another |
| 4 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 5 | Toshihiko Yahagi Shiro Tsukasaki | |
| 6 | Ko Amemura | |
| 7 | Setsuko Shinoda | |
| 8 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 9 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 10 | Honobu Yonezawa |
2011
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2011| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Carol O'Connell | Bone by Bone |
| 2 | Boston Teran | The World Eve Left Us |
| 3 | David Benioff | City of Thieves |
| 4 | Don Winslow | The Winter of Frankie Machine |
| 5 | John Hart | The Last Child |
| 6 | Michael Connelly | Echo Park |
| 7 | Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger |
| 8 | Louis Bayard | The Pale Blue Eye |
| 9 | Jeffery Deaver | Roadside Crosses |
| 10 | Jo Walton | Farthing I |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 2 | Soji Shimada | |
| 3 | Yu Shizaki | |
| 4 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 5 | Hikaru Okuizumi | |
| 6 | Kotaro Isaka | |
| 7 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 8 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 9 | Kanan Nanakawa | |
| 10 | Taku Ashibe |
2012
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2012| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | David Gordon | The Serialist |
| 2 | Ferdinand von Schirach | Crime |
| 3 | Tom Rob Smith | Agent 6 |
| 4 | Henning Mankell | One Step Behind |
| 5 | James Ellroy | Blood's a Rover |
| 6 | Jack Kerley | Blood Brother |
| 7 | Don Winslow | Satori |
| 8 | Tom Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| 9 | Kate Morton | The Forgotten Garden |
| 10 | Michael Cox | The Meaning of Night |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Kazuaki Takano | English translation: Genocide of One |
| 2 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 3 | Hiroko Minagawa | |
| 4 | Arimasa Osawa | |
| 5 | Mahokaru Numata | English translation: Nan-Core |
| 6 | Itsuki Nagasawa | |
| 7 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 8 | Joh Sasaki | |
| 9 | Ryoichi Kano | |
| 9 | Ryoe Tsukimura |
2013
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2013| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist |
| 2 | David Peace | Occupied City |
| 3 | Scott Turow | Innocent |
| 4 | Arnaldur Indriðason | Jar City |
| 5 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Der Sturz / Das Sterben der Pythia |
| 5 | Henning Mankell | Firewall |
| 7 | China Miéville | The City & the City |
| 8 | Jeffery Deaver | The Burning Wire |
| 9 | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | The Angel's Game |
| 10 | Alan Glenn | Amerikan Eagle |
| 10 | Lawrence Block | A Drop of the Hard Stuff |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Hideo Yokoyama | English translation: Six Four |
| 2 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 3 | Ryoe Tsukimura | |
| 4 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 5 | Ken Nishimura | |
| 6 | Maha Harada | |
| 7 | Fumio Takano | |
| 8 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 9 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 10 | Yusuke Miyauchi |
2014
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2014| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Stephen King | 11/22/63 |
| 2 | Minette Walters | Acid Row |
| 3 | R. D. Wingfield | Winter Frost |
| 4 | Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers |
| 5 | Dennis Lehane | Live By Night |
| 6 | Jeffery Deaver | More Twisted |
| 7 | Jack Kerley | In the Blood |
| 8 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
| 9 | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl |
| 10 | Arnaldur Indriðason | Silence of the Grave |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 2 | Hiroki Nagaoka | |
| 3 | Akira Higashiyama | |
| 4 | Yasumi Kobayashi | |
| 5 | Kotaro Isaka | |
| 6 | Yu Shizaki | |
| 7 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 8 | Shusuke Shizukui | |
| 9 | Soji Shimada | |
| 10 | Aki Hamanaka | |
| 10 | Keigo Higashino |
2015
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2015| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Pierre Lemaitre | Alex |
| 2 | Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper |
| 3 | Roger Hobbs | Ghostman |
| 4 | Terry Hayes | I Am Pilgrim |
| 5 | Daniel Friedman | Don’t Ever Get Old |
| 6 | Joël Dicker | The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair |
| 7 | Helen McCloy | The One That Got Away |
| 8 | Minette Walters | Chickenfeed and The Tinder Box |
| 9 | Mark Greaney | Dead Eye |
| 10 | Henning Mankell | The Man from Beijing |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 2 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 3 | Atsushi Shimomura | |
| 4 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 5 | Ryoe Tsukimura | |
| 6 | Ryoe Tsukimura | |
| 7 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 8 | Hiroyuki Kurokawa | |
| 9 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 10 | Taku Ashibe |
2016
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2016| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Jeffery Deaver | Skin Collector |
| 2 | Pierre Lemaitre | Irene |
| 3 | William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace |
| 4 | Nick Harkaway | Angelmaker |
| 5 | Arnaldur Indriðason | Voices |
| 6 | Daniel Friedman | Don't Ever Look Back |
| 6 | Minette Walters | The Devil's Feather |
| 8 | Steve Cavanagh | The Defence |
| 9 | Michel Bussi | Un avion sans elle |
| 10 | Jack Kerley | Buried Alive |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 2 | Nowaki Fukamidori | |
| 3 | Yuko Yuzuki | |
| 4 | Nanami Wakatake | |
| 5 | Akira Higashiyama | |
| 6 | Reiichiro Fukami | |
| 7 | Jun Kurachi | |
| 8 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 9 | Yoshinaga Fujita | |
| 10 | Takekuni Kitayama |
2017
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2017| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Roslund/Hellström | Björndansen |
| 2 | Don Winslow | The Cartel |
| 3 | Stephen King | Mr. Mercedes |
| 4 | Charles Willeford | Pick-Up |
| 5 | Jack Vance | The Complete Magnus Ridolph |
| 6 | Pierre Lemaitre | Sacrifices English translation: Camille |
| 7 | Michael Connelly | The Drop |
| 8 | Mark Greaney | Back Blast |
| 9 | Dennis Lehane | World Gone By |
| 10 | Jeffery Deaver | Solitude Creek |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Takemoto Kenji | |
| 2 | Nanami Wakatake | |
| 3 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 4 | Aoyama Bunpei | |
| 5 | Ashizawa You | |
| 6 | Nagaura Kiyou | |
| 7 | Shiota Takeshi | |
| 8 | Shirai Tomoyuki | |
| 9 | Miyuki Miyabe | |
| 10 | Ichikawa Yuto |