The Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of High Stakes Thriller and Lab Lit Fiction. The Global Thriller Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2025 GLOBAL THRILLER High Stakes Thriller Fiction entries to the 2025 Global Thriller Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 Global Thriller Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2025 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Thriller Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Alexandra Pugachevsky – I Rodion
Angela Greenman – The Child Riddler
Anne Louise Girodet – Plan A
Avanti Centrae – The Picasso Job a Phoenix Thriller
Brad M Meslin – The Moldavian Gambit
C.W. James – Mission Red Scythe a James Vagus Teen Espionage Thriller
Dave Mckeon – Sabotage
David R Leng – Echoes of Fortune the Search for Braddock’s Lost Gold
Dheepa R. Maturi – 108 an Eco-Thriller
Ellis K. Popa – Dawn To Dusk
Ernest H Lee – Action This Day
Gerard Shirar – The China Paradox
J.L. Spears – Daemon Protocol
James Alan Mcgettigan – The Altered Moon Dust Cosmos Book 1 the Second Edition
JH Gruger – Gravity of Sol-3
Julie Lomax – A Pawn’s Game
Kevin Hwang – The Regression Strain
Kevin Miller – High End
L.M. Weeks – Bottled Lightning
M. E. Schuman – The Catalyst
M. E. Schuman – Where the Sleeping Lady Lies
Michael Maloof – Relentless
Nick Hoy – Hollow Men
Ralph R. Rick Steinke – Vital Mission a Jake Fortina Series Love Story
Randall Krzak – Mission Yemen Xavier Sear Thriller Book 2
RK Jack – Devourer From Beyond
Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Warrior Pose
T. D. Severin – Deadly Vision
T.O. Paine – The Crisis
Thomas Lapham – Beyond the Signal
Thomas M. Wing – Against All Enemies
Tom Dolan – Boba Wars Zero

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Global Thriller Grand Prize Winner

A Blanket of Steel

By Timothy S. Johnston

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Global Thriller Book Award Winners for High Stakes Thriller Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes Thriller Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.