Compton Crook Award
Presented by: Members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society
For: Best first novel
| Winner | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | Alex Jennings |
| Nominee | Obsidian | Sarah J. Daley |
| Nominee | The Bone Orchard | Sara A. Mueller |
| Nominee | Bluebird | Ciel Pierlot |
| Nominee | Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan |
| Nominee | The Genesis of Misery | JY Yang |
| Winner | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark |
| Nominee | Assassin's Orbit | John Appel |
| Nominee | Nucleation | Kimberly Unger |
| Nominee | The Councillor | E. J. Beaton |
| Nominee | The Witch's Heart | Genevieve Gornichec |
| Nominee | We Have Always Been Here | Lena Nguyen |
| Winner | The Space Between Worlds | Micaiah Johnson |
| Nominee | Axiom's End | Lindsay Ellis |
| Nominee | Architects of Memory | Karen Osborne |
| Nominee | The Bone Shard Daughter | Andrea Stewart |
| Nominee | Docile | K. M. Szpara |
| Nominee | Nameless Queen | Rebecca McLaughlin |
| Winner | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine |
| Nominee | Here and Now and Then | Mike Chen |
| Nominee | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow |
| Nominee | The Outside | Ada Hoffmann |
| Nominee | A Song for a New Day | Sarah Pinsker |
| Winner | The Poppy War | R. F. Kuang |
| Nominee | The City of Brass | S. A. Chakraborty |
| Nominee | Trail of Lightning | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Nominee | The Sisters of the Winter Wood | Rena Rossner |
| Nominee | Implanted | Lauren C. Teffeau |
| Nominee | The Feed | Nick Clark Windo |
| Winner | The Prey of Gods | Nicky Drayden |
| Nominee | All Our Wrong Todays | Elan Mastai |
| Nominee | The Guns Above | Robyn Bennis |
| Nominee | Amatka | Karin Tidbeck |
| Nominee | Gilded Cage | Vic James |
| Nominee | The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Theodora Goss |
| Nominee | Lotus Blue | Cat Sparks |
| Winner | Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer |
| Nominee | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee |
| Nominee | Sword and Verse | Kathy MacMillan |
| Nominee | Sleeping Giants | Sylvain Neuvel |
| Nominee | Sleep State Interrupt | T. C. Weber |
| Nominee | Arabella of Mars | David D. Levine |
| Winner | Updraft | Fran Wilde |
| Nominee | 5 to 1 | Holly Bodger |
| Nominee | Owl and the Japanese Circus | Kristi Charish |
| Nominee | I Will Love You Forever | Brian Groover |
| Nominee | The Gracekeepers | Kirsty Logan |
| Nominee | The Thorn of Dentonhill | Marshall Ryan Maresca |
| Nominee | Beasts of Tabat | Cat Rambo |
| Nominee | Flex | Ferrett Steinmetz |
| Nominee | Enter the Janitor | Josh Vogt |
| Winner | Salvage | Alexandra Duncan |
| Nominee | The Bees | Laline Paull |
| Nominee | Copper Magic | Julia Mary Gibson |
| Nominee | A Darkling Sea | James L. Cambias |
| Nominee | Darkwalker | E. L. Tettensor |
| Nominee | Expiration Day | William Campbell Powell |
| Nominee | Memory of Water | Emmi Itäranta |
| Winner | Fire with Fire | Charles E. Gannon |
| Nominee | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie |
| Nominee | City of a Thousand Dolls | Miriam Forster |
| Nominee | The Darwin Elevator | Jason M. Hough |
| Nominee | The Enchanted Skean | Vonnie Winslow Crist |
| Nominee | Glyphbinder | T. Eric Bakutis |
| Nominee | In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods | Matt Bell |
| Nominee | Shh! It's a Secret | Daniel M. Kimmel |
| Winner | Control Point | Myke Cole |
| Nominee | Glitch | Heather Anastasiu |
| Nominee | Stormdancer | Jay Kristoff |
| Nominee | Fair Coin | E. C. Myers |
| Nominee | Scourge of the Betrayer | Jeff Salyards |
| Winner | Germline | T. C. McCarthy |
| Winner | State of Decay | James Knapp |
| Winner | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Nominee | Dying Bites | DD Barant |
| Nominee | Johannes Cabal the Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard |
| Nominee | Soulless | Gail Carriger |
| Winner | Singularity's Ring | Paul Melko |
| Nominee | Black Ships | Jo Graham |
| Nominee | Into the Storm | Taylor Anderson |
| Nominee | The Way of Shadows | Brent Weeks |
| Winner | One Jump Ahead | Mark L. Van Name |
| Nominee | The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie |
| Nominee | Magic Lost, Trouble Found | Lisa Shearin |
| Nominee | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss |
| Nominee | The Outback Stars | Sandra McDonald |
| Winner | His Majesty's Dragon | Naomi Novik |
| Nominee | The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch |
| Nominee | The Skewed Throne | Joshua Palmatier |
| Nominee | Sojourn | Jana G. Oliver |
| Winner | Poison Study | Maria V. Snyder |
| Winner | Ghosts in the Snow | Tamara Siler Jones |
| Winner | Way of the Wolf | E. E. Knight |
| Winner | Devlin's Luck | Patricia Bray |
| Winner | Alien Taste | Wen Spencer |
| Nominee | Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris |
| Nominee | Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea | Diana Marcessas |
| Nominee | Dance of Knives | Donna McMahon |
| Winner | Murphy's Gambit | Syne Mitchell |
| Nominee | Transformation | Carol Berg |
| Nominee | Storm Front | Jim Butcher |
| Nominee | Dykstra's War | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Nominee | Mars Crossing | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | The King's Peace | Jo Walton |
| Winner | Flesh and Silver | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | The High House | James Stoddard |
| Winner | The Merro Tree | Katie Waitman |
| Winner | Celestial Matters | Richard Garfinkle |
| Winner | The Gatekeepers | Daniel Graham, Jr. |
| Nominee | Primary Inversion | Catherine Asaro |
| Nominee | Becoming Human | Valerie J. Freireich |
| Nominee | Assassin's Apprentice | Megan Lindholm^Robin Hobb |
| Nominee | The End of the Age | Pat Robertson |
| Winner | Dun Lady's Jess | Doranna Durgin |
| Nominee | Love Bite | Sherry Gottlieb |
| Nominee | Mistwalker | Denise Lopes Heald |
| Winner | The Drylands | Mary Rosenblum |
| Nominee | Chiller | Gregory Benford^Sterling Blake |
| Nominee | Cold Allies | Patricia Anthony |
| Nominee | The Element of Fire | Martha Wells |
| Winner | Fire in the Mist | Holly Lisle |
| Nominee | Jumper | Steven Gould |
| Winner | Reefsong | Carol Severance |
| Nominee | Ground Ties | Jane S. Fancher |
| Nominee | Into the Dark Lands | Michelle West^Michelle Sagara |
| Winner | In the Country of the Blind | Michael F. Flynn |
| Nominee | The Interior Life | Dorothy J. Heydt^Katherine Blake |
| Nominee | In the Net of Dreams | Wm. Mark Simmons |
| Winner | The Shining Falcon | Josepha Sherman |
| Nominee | Sunglasses After Dark | Nancy A. Collins |
| Nominee | Twistor | John G. Cramer^John Cramer |
| Nominee | Child of Saturn | Teresa Edgerton |
| Nominee | The Gate of Ivory | Doris Egan |
| Nominee | The Steerswoman | Rosemary Kirstein |
| Winner | Sheepfarmer's Daughter | Elizabeth Moon |
| Nominee | Dragon Prince | Melanie Rawn |
| Nominee | The Leaves of October | Don Sakers |
| Nominee | The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West | Mary Stanton |
| Winner | Liege-Killer | Christopher Hinz |
| Nominee | After the Zap | Michael Armstrong |
| Nominee | War for the Oaks | Emma Bull |
| Nominee | In Conquest Born | C. S. Friedman |
| Winner | The Doomsday Effect | Thomas T. Thomas^Thomas Wren |
| Nominee | Shards of Honor | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Nominee | The Game of Fox and Lion | Robert R. Chase |
| Nominee | The Cross-Time Engineer | Leo Frankowski |
| Nominee | A Hidden Place | Robert Charles Wilson |
| Winner | Infinity's Web | Sheila Finch |
| Winner | Emergence | David R. Palmer |
| Nominee | The Land Beyond the Gate | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach |
| Nominee | Paradise | Don Henderson |
| Nominee | The Copper Crown | Patricia Kennealy-Morrison^Patricia K. Morrison |
| Nominee | The Game Beyond | Melissa Scott |
| Nominee | Them Bones | Howard Waldrop |
| Nominee | Aubade for Gamelon | John Willett |
| Winner | The War for Eternity | Christopher Rowley |
| Nominee | A Rumor of Angels | Marjorie B. Kellogg^M. Bradley Kellogg |
| Nominee | Tea with the Black Dragon | R. A. MacAvoy |
| Nominee | The Helix and the Sword | John C. McLoughlin |
| Nominee | The Blackcollar | Timothy Zahn |
| Winner | Courtship Rite | Donald Kingsbury |