Compton Crook Award

1983–2025 43 winners 170 nominations

2025

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. The Wings Upon Her Back Samantha Mills Winner
  2. Someone You Can Build a Nest in John Wiswell Nominee
  3. Sun of Blood and Ruin Mariely Lares Nominee Book 1 of Godslayer
  4. The Book of Love Kelly Link Nominee
  5. The Stars Too Fondly Emily Hamilton Nominee

2024

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. The Splinter in the Sky Kemi Ashing-Giwa Winner
  2. Deathwind Brad Pawlowski Nominee Book 1 of War of the Harbingers
  3. How to Be Remembered Michael Thompson Nominee
  4. These Burning Stars Bethany Jacobs Nominee Book 1 of The Kindom Trilogy
  5. To Shape a Dragon's Breath Monique Poirier Nominee Book 1 of Nampeshiweisit

2023

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. The Ballad of Perilous Graves Alex Jennings Winner
  2. Bluebird Ciel Pierlot Nominee
  3. Daughter of the Moon Goddess Sue Lynn Tan Nominee Book 1 of Celestial Kingdom
  4. Obsidian Sarah J. Daley Nominee
  5. The Bone Orchard Sara A. Mueller Nominee
  6. The Genesis of Misery JY Yang Nominee

2022

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark Winner Part of Ministry of Alchemy
  2. Assassin's Orbit John Appel Nominee
  3. Nucleation Kimberly Unger Nominee
  4. The Councillor E. J. Beaton Nominee
  5. The Witch's Heart Genevieve Gornichec Nominee
  6. We Have Always Been Here Lena Nguyen Nominee

2021

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson Winner
  2. Architects of Memory Karen Osborne Nominee Book 1 of The Memory War
  3. Axiom's End Lindsay Ellis Nominee Book 1 of Noumena
  4. Docile K. M. Szpara Nominee
  5. Nameless Queen Rebecca McLaughlin Nominee
  6. The Bone Shard Daughter Andrea Stewart Nominee Book 1 of The Drowning Empire

2020

Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

  1. A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine Winner Book 1 of Teixcalaan
  2. A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker Nominee Part of A Song for a New Day
  3. Here and Now and Then Mike Chen Nominee
  4. The Outside Ada Hoffmann Nominee Book 1 of The Outside
  5. The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow Nominee