| year | best_teenage___young_adult | reader__s_vote | best_non___fiction | lifetime_achievement |
| 1996-01-01 | na | na | na | jon cleary |
| 1997-01-01 | na | na | how to write crime edited by marele day | alan yates (aka carter brown ) |
| 1998-01-01 | na | na | na | na |
| 1999-01-01 | na | na | na | peter corris |
| 2000-01-01 | na | na | na | na |
| 2001-01-01 | na | bleeding hearts by lindy cameron | na | professor stephen knight |
| 2002-01-01 | blue murder by ken catran | apartment 255 by bunty avieson | na | patrick gallagher |
| 2003-01-01 | na | na | na | kerry greenwood |
| 2004-01-01 | na | na | na | bob bottom |
| 2005-01-01 | na | na | na | stuart coupe |
| 2006-01-01 | na | na | na | andrew rule and john silvester |
| 2007-01-01 | na | na | na | sandra harvey and lindsay simpson |
| 2008-01-01 | na | na | na | marele day |
| 2009-01-01 | na | na | na | shane maloney |
| 2010-01-01 | na | na | na | peter doyle |
| 2011-01-01 | na | na | na | na |