Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is awarded by the Authors' Club to the most promising first novel of the year, written by a British author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented.

It has been awarded to the following:

This list is incomplete

• 1954 - David Unwin - The Governor's Wife
• 1955 - Brian Moore - Judith Hearne (later republished as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne)
• 1956 - Harry Bloom - Episode
• 1957 - Edmund Ward - Summer in Retreat
• 1958 - Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• 1959 - David Caute - At Fever Pitch
• 1960 - Lionel Davidson - The Night of Wenceslas
• 1961 - Jim Hunter - The Sun in the Morning
• 1962 - John Pearson - Gone to Timbuctoo
• 1963 - David Rubin - The Greater Darkness
• 1964 - Robin Douglas-Home - Hot for Certainties
• 1965 - James Mossman - Beggars on Horseback
• 1966 - Leslie Thomas - The Virgin Soldiers
• 1967 - Paul Bailey - At the Jerusalem
• 1968 - Barry England - Figures in a Landscape
• 1969 - Peter Tinniswood - A Touch of Daniel
• 1970 - Rachel Ingalls - Theft
• 1971 - Rosemary Hawley Jarman - We Speak No Treason
• 1973 - Jennifer Johnston - The Captains and the Kings
• 1975 - Sasha Moorsom - A Lavender Trip
• 1977 - Barbara Benson - The Underlings
• 1978 - Katharine Gordon - The Emerald Peacock
• 1979 - Martin Page - The Pilate Plot
• 1980 - Dawn Lowe-Watson - The Good Morrow
• 1981 - Anne Smith - The Magic Glass
• 1982 - Frances Vernon - Privileged Children
• 1983 - Katherine Moore - Summer at the Haven
• 1984 - Frederick R. Hyde-Chambers - Lama: A Novel of Tibet
• 1985 - Magda Sweetland - Eightsome Reel
• 1986 - Helen Harris - Playing Fields in Winter
• 1987 - Peter Benson - The Levels
• 1988 - Gilbert Adair - The Holy Innocents
• 1989 - Lindsey Davis - The Silver Pigs
• 1990 - Alan Brownjohn - The Way You Tell Them
• 1991 - Zina Rohan - The Book of Wishes and Complaints
• 1992 - David Park - The Healing
• 1993 - Nadeem Aslam - Season of the Rainbirds
• 1994 - Andrew Cowan - Pig
• 1995 - T. J. Armstrong - Walter and the Resurrection of G
• 1996 - Diran Adebayo - Some Kind of Black and Rhidian Brook - The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (shared)
• 1997 - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
• 1998 - Jackie Kay - Trumpet
• 1999 - Ann Harries - Manly Pursuits
• 2000 - Brian Clarke - The Stream
• 2001 - Carl Tighe - Burning Worm
• 2002 - Ben Facini - The Water Breather
• 2003 - Dan Rhodes - Timoleon Vieta Come Home
• 2004 - Susan Fletcher - Eve Green and Neil Griffiths - Betrayal in Naples (shared)
• 2005 - Henry Shukman - Sandstorm
• 2006 - Nicola Monaghan - The Killing Jar
• 2007 - Segun Afolabi - Goodbye Lucille
• 2009 - Laura Beatty - Pollard
• 2010 - Anthony Quinn - The Rescue Man
• 2011 - Jonathan Kemp - London Triptych
• 2012 - Kevin Barry - City of Bohane
• 2013 - Ros Barber - The Marlowe Papers and I. J. Kay - Mountains of the Moon
• 2014 - Jack Wolf - The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
• 2015 - Carys Bray - A Song for Issy Bradley
• 2016 - Benjamin Johncock - The Last Pilot
• 2017 - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan - Harmless Like You
• 2018 - Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
• 2019 - Guy Gunaratne - In Our Mad and Furious City
• 2020 - Claire Adam - Golden Child
• 2021 - Ingrid Persaud - Love after Love
• 2022 - Tish Delaney - Before my Actual Heart Breaks
• 2023 - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - When We Were Birds