List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original winners

Winners

1970s

• 1970 Scott C. S. Stone, The Dragon's Eye
• 1971 Dan J. Marlowe, Flashpoint
• 1972 Frank McAuliffe, For Murder I Charge More
• 1973 Richard Wormser, The Invader
• 1974 Will Perry, Death of an Informer
• 1975 Roy Winsor, The Corpse That Walked
• 1976 John R. Feegel, Autopsy
• 1977 Gregory Mcdonald, Confess, Fletch
• 1978 Mike Jahn, The Quark Maneuver
• 1979 Frank Bandy, Deceit and Deadly Lies

  1980s

• 1980 William L. DeAndrea, The Hog Murders
• 1981 Bill Granger, Public Murders
• 1982 L. A. Morse, The Old Dick
• 1983 Teri White, Triangle
• 1984 Margaret Tracy, Mrs. White
• 1985 Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy, Grandmaster
• 1986 Warren Murphy, Pigs Get Fat
• 1987 Robert Wright Campbell, The Junkyard Dog
• 1988 Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun
• 1989 Timothy Findley, The Telling of Lies

  1990s

• 1990 Keith Peterson, The Rain
• 1991 David Handler, The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1992 Thomas Adcock, Dark Maze
• 1993 Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder
• 1994 Steven Womack, Dead Folk's Blues
• 1994 Burl Barer, The Saint
• 1995 Lisa Scottoline, Final Appeal
• 1996 William Heffernan, Tarnished Blue
• 1997 Harlan Coben, Fade Away
• 1998 Laura Lippman, Charm City
• 1999 Rick Riordan, The Widower's Two-Step

  2000s

• 2000 Ruth Birmingham, Fulton County Blues
• 2001 Mark Graham, The Black Maria
• 2002 Daniel Chavarria, Adios Muchachos
• 2003 T. J. MacGregor, Out of Sight
• 2004 Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Find Me Again
• 2005 Domenic Stansberry, The Confession
• 2006 Jeffrey Ford, Girl in the Glass
• 2007 Naomi Hirahara, Snakeskin Shamisen
• 2008 Megan Abbott, Queenpin
• 2009 Meg Gardiner, China Lake

  2010s

• 2010 Marc Strange, Body Blows
• 2011 Robert Goddard, Long Time Coming
• 2012 Robert Jackson Bennett, The Company Man
• 2013 Ben H. Winters, The Last Policeman: A Novel
• 2014 Alex Marwood, The Wicked Girls
• 2015 Chris Abani, The Secret History of Las Vegas
• 2016 Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone
• 2017 Adrian McKinty, Rain Dogs
• 2018 Anna Mazzola, The Unseeing
• 2019 Alison Gaylin, If I Die Tonight