Welcome readers,
We're coming up on the end of the year and that means various "Best Books of 2025" lists are being released and prizes are being awarded! We'll be using this thread to collect these "Best of" lists and awards into one place and will be updating it as more lists and awards are released. Without further ado, here's your list of lists:
Best Books of 2025
| Organization | Type of List | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Best Books of 2025 | Link |
| Audible | Best Audiobooks of 2025 | Link |
| Financial Times | Best Books of 2025 | Link |
| Powell's Books | Favorite Books of 2025 | Link |
| Time | The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 | Link |
| Publishers Weekly | Best Books of 2025 | Link |
| Google Play | Best Books of 2025 | Link |
| Indigo | Best Books of 2025 | Link |
| Men's Health | 52 Best Horror Books of 2025 | Link |
Literary Awards of 2025
| Award | Winner | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize | László Krasznahorkai | Link |
| Pulitzer Prize | Multiple | Fiction – James, by Percival Everett — Drama – Purpose, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins — History – Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War, by Edda L. Fields-Black and Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal — Biography – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, by Jason Roberts — Memoir/Autobiography – Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, by Tessa Hulls — Poetry – New and Selected Poems, by Marie Howe — Nonfiction – To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, by Benjamin Nathans |
| [National Book Award] | Multiple | [Fiction] – [Nonfiction] – [Poetry] – [Translated Literature] – [YP Lit] |
| The Booker Prize | Flesh by David Szalay | Link |
| The International Booker Prize | Heart Lamp – written by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi | Link |
| The Hugo Awards | Novel – The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett — Novella – The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler — Novelette – “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea,” by Naomi Kritzer — Short Story – “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is,” by Nghi Vo — Series – Between Earth and Sky, by Rebecca Roanhorse — Graphic Story or Comic – Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio | Link |
| The Dublin Literary Award | The Adversary, by Michael Crummey | Link |
| Next Generation Indie Book Awards | Fiction – Boy With Wings by Mark Mustian — Nonfiction – The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore and Vic Liu, Illustrated by Vic Liu | [https://www.indiebookawards.com/winners.php?year=2025] |
| [The Goldsmiths Prize] | TBA | [Link] |
| Rubery Book Award | Fiction – The Thickness of Ice by Gerard Beirne — Short Fiction – I Spit Myself Out by Tracy Fahey — Nonfiction – A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia by Anthea Rowan — Poetry – Love Haunts in Shades of Blue by Yvonne Baker — Illustrated Children's Book – Puddles, Muddles and Cuddles by Trish Nolan/Romont Willy — Children's and YA – Juice by Peter Deadman | [https://www.ruberybookaward.com/2025-winners.html] |
| Windham Campbell Prizes | Multiple | Link |
| [Caine Prize for African Writing | TBA | [Link] |
| Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize | TBA | |
| Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Multiple | Link |
| PEN Literary Awards | Multiple | Link |
| World Fantasy Awards | Multiple | Link |
| Giller Prize | TBA | [Link] |
| Nebula Awards | Multiple | Novel – Novella – Novelette – Short Story – Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction |
| Shirley Jackson Awards | Novel – Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton — Novella – Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce — Novelette – The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster by Kurt Fawver — Short Fiction – “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine — Single Author Collection – Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas — Edited Anthology – Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin | [Link] |
| Bram Stoker Awards | Multiple | Link |
| Women's Prize for Fiction | The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden | Link |
| Women's Prize for Non-fiction | The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke | Link |
| [Goodreads Awards] | Multiple | [Fiction] – [Historical Fiction] – [Mystery and Thriller]- [Romance] – [Romantasy] – [Fantasy] – [Science Fiction] – [Horror] – [Debut] – [Audiobook] – [YA Fantasy] – [YA Fiction] – [Nonfiction] – [Memoir] – [History and Biography] |
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