2025 Award Winners
Booker Prize 2025 Winner: Flesh (David Szalay)
International Booker Prize 2025 Winner: Heart Lamp (Banu Mushtaq)
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Winner: The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden)
National Book Awards Winners: Fiction: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Rabih Alameddine) Nonfiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Omar El Akkad) Poetry: The Intentions of Thunder (Patricia Smith) Translated Literature: We Are Green and Trembling (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) Young People's Literature. The Teacher of Nomad Land (Daniel Nayeri)
Pulitzer Prize 2025 Winners: Fiction: James (Percival Everett). History: Native Nations (Kathleen Duval) & Combee (Edda L. Fields-Black). Biography: Every Living Thing (Jason Roberts). Memoir/Autobiography: Feeding Ghosts (Tessa Hulls). Poetry: New and Selected Poems (Marie Howe). Nonfiction: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Benjamin Nathans)
Nebula Awards 2025 Winners: Best Novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (John Wiswell). Best Novella: The Dragonfly Gambit (A.D. Sui). Middle Grade & Young Adult: The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts (Vanessa Ricci-Thode)
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honorees: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories), Megan Howell (Softie), Maggie Millner (Couplets), Alexander Sammartino (Last Acts), Jemimah Wei (The Original Daughter)
Combee
Fields-Black, Dr. Edda L.Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History - Winner, 2024 Gilder Lehrm...
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Millner, MaggieA Love Story 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and comin...
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Roberts, JasonThe Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - WINNER OF THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD - A KIRKUS REVIEWS ...
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Hulls, TessaWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE - WINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZE ...
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Szalay, DavidLonglisted for the 2025 Booker Prize From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captiv...
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Mushtaq, BanuWinner of the 2025 International Booker Prize - Winner of a PEN Translates Award A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer...
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Everett, PercivalAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ...
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Sammartino, AlexanderA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree * Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction ...
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DuVal, KathleenA Millennium in North America A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling thei...
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Howe, MarieWinner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - One of NPR's Books We Love in 2024 and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of 2024 An indispens...
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El Akkad, OmarFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundament...
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Howell, Megan2025 PEN America Finalist, Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection - 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree In beautiful...
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Wiswell, JohnA Most-Anticipated Book of 2024: LitHub, Polygon, Apple, Goodreads! Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance - from the pers...
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Sui, A.D.After sustaining a career-ending injury, Inez Kato has been plotting her revenge against the empire that made her a soldier. She'll lie, cheat, and...
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Smith, PatriciaNew and Selected Poems Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the mos...
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Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree - A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award Winner In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories...
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Wei, Jemimah2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree - A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK In this dazzling debut, Jemimah Wei explores the formation...
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Van Der Wouden, YaelLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Aspen Words Literary Prize - A Best Book of 2024: The ...
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Nayeri, DanielPage-turning WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutra...
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Alameddine, RabihFrom National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of f...
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Ricci-Thode, VanessaLusi is a perfectly normal 12-year-old wizard except for the part where she can talk to ghosts. But everyone knows ghosts aren't real, so at best t...
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Nathans, BenjaminThe Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissiden...
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Cámara, Gabriela CabezónLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to ...
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