Awards and Honors

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Recently Announced

Locus Award Winner 2026

Announced Saturday

Crime Writers' Association Awards Shortlist 2026

Announced Thursday
Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse
The Lake by Jørn Lier Horst
Red Water by Jurica Pavičić
Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen
Strange Pictures by Uketsu
King of Ashes: A Novel by S. A. Cosby
The Death of Us by Abigail Dean
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
The Girl in Cell A by Vaseem Khan
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland by Áine Cain
The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB by Gordon Corera
The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and The Golden Age by John Curran
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
That Dark Spring: A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence by Susannah Stapleton
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker
A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
Barvick Falls by Rob McInroy
The Devil's Draper by Donna Moore
Gunner by Alan Parks
A Case of Life and Limb by Sally Smith
The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani
The Big Empty by Robert Crais
A Sting in Her Tale by Mark Ezra
Such Quiet Girls: A Thriller by Noelle W. Ihli
The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney
We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
The Peak by Sam Guthrie
Story Machine The Lost Detective. by Elspeth Latimer
The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey
The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin
Coram House: A Novel by Bailey Seybolt
Holy City by Henry Wise
What Happens in the Dark by Kia Abdullah
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Some of us are liars by Fiona Cummins
Scenes from a Tragedy by Carole Hailey
The Bodies by Sam Lloyd
We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
The Christmas Cracker Killer by Alexandra Benedict
Etiquette for Lovers and Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman
A Queer Case by Robert Holtom
A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery by Mel Pennant
Bad Influence by CJ Wray

James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winner 2026

Announced Thursday

British Fantasy Award Nominee 2026

Announced May 22

Dublin Literary Award Winner 2026

Announced May 21

Australian Book Industry Awards Winner 2026

Announced May 21

British Book Awards Winner 2026

Announced May 11

International Thriller Writers Award Winner 2026

Announced May 9

Thurber Prize for American Humor Winner 2026

Announced May 7

Edgar Award Winner 2026

Announced May 4

Pulitzer Prize Winner 2026

Announced May 4

Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2026

Announced May 4

Locus Award Finalist 2026

Announced April 23
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope by Karen Lord
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow
We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
In My Country by Thomas Ha
On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Starstrike (Moonstorm) by Yoon Ha Lee
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 by John Joseph Adams
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by Andre M. Carrington
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 by Kay Chronister
Night & Day by Ellen Datlow
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology by Julie C. Day
The End of the World as We Know It by Christopher Golden
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories by Terese Mason Pierre
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell
Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss
Bright Dead Star by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
Crows and Silences by Lucius Shepard
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Queen Demon by Martha Wells
A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde
Red Rabbit Ghost by Jen Julian
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
Luminous by Silvia Park
Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford
Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su
Song of Spores by Bogi Takács
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
Never Flinch by Stephen King
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
The Crimson Road by A. G. Slatter
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
The invisible parade by Leigh Bardugo
Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by Sheridan Le Fanu
Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines Art Book by Sara Frazetta
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Paul Kidby
Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering: A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem by Rebecca K. Reynolds
Sunset at Zero Point by Simon Stålenhag
Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell
Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from The Korshak Collection by Amanda T. Zehnder
The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers by Terry Bisson
Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling by Henry Lien
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World by Tavia Nyong'o
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet by Tochi Onyebuchi
Why I Love Horror by Becky Siegel Spratford
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends by Richard Wolinsky
Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse by Chi-ming Yang
The Witch and the Wyrm: A Tor Original by Elizabeth Bear
Barnacle: A Tor Original by Kate Elliott
Uncertain Sons by Thomas Ha
The Tin Man's Ghost by Ray Nayler
The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
When He Calls Your Name by Catherynne M. Valente
Wolf Moon, Antler Moon: A Tor Original by A.C. Wise
Phantom View: A Tor Original by John Wiswell
The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
Cinder House by Freya Marske
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Making History by K. J. Parker
Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce
Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory
All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
Slow Gods by Claire North
The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In The Halls Of The Makeshift King by Tobias S. Buckell
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
The Shape of Stones: A Tor Original by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Landline: A Tor Original by Kelly Robson
Missing Helen by Tia Tashiro
Woolly by Carrie Vaughn
The Unworthy: A Novel by Agustina Bazterrica
The Midnight Shift by Seon-ran Cheon
The Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories by Bora Chung
Red Sword by Bora Chung
Ice by Jacek Dukaj
Blood for the Undying Throne by Sung-il Kim
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
Dengue Boy: A Novel by Michel Nieva
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Singular Life of Aria Patel by Samira Ahmed
Make Me a Monster by Kalynn Bayron
Costumes for Time Travelers by A. R. Capetta
The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard
The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt
Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman
Sky on Fire by E. K. Johnston
I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

Hugo Award Nominee 2026

Announced April 21
Sinners [2025 film] by Ryan Coogler
Frankenstein [2025 film] by Guillermo del Toro
Star Wars Andor (Season 2) by Tony Gilroy
Superman [2025 film] by James Gunn
Mickey 17 [2025 film] by Bong Joon-Ho
KPop Demon Hunters [2025 film] by Maggie Kang
The invisible parade by Leigh Bardugo
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor
Rise Up Swearing: A Girl and Her Fed, Vol. 1 by K.B. Spangler
Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C. B. Lee
Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch
Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak
The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For by Cameron Reed
When He Calls Your Name by Catherynne M. Valente
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy {novelette} by Martha Wells
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
Cinder House by Freya Marske
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
The Summer War by Naomi Novik
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
How to become a sea witch by Theodora Goss
The World To Come by Jennifer Hudak
The Mourning Robot by Angela Liu
Hex Supply Customer Support Log by Elis Montgomery
Care for Lightning by Mari Ness
Landing: Seattle by Brandon O'Brien
Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer
The Cuddled Little Vice by Elizabeth Sandifer
Six People to Revise You by J.R. Dawson
In My Country by Thomas Ha
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
10 Vision of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by Samantha Mills
Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by Effie Seiberg
Missing Helen by Tia Tashiro

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner 2025

Announced April 17

Australian Book Industry Awards Shortlist 2026

Announced April 8
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
Once I was a Giant by Zeno Sworder
The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations About a Triple Murder Trial by Helen Garner
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? by Kaylene Whiskey
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin
Wandering Wild by Lynette Noni
Sundays under the Lemon Tree by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
A Piece of Red Cloth by Leonie Norrington
Caution! This Book Contains Deadly Reptiles by Corey Tutt
Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton
How They Get You: Sneaky Everyday Economics and Smart Ways to Hold on to Your Money by Chris Kohler
The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan
Unstuck by Emily Musgrove
Average at Best: A memoir from the creator of Pub Choir® by Astrid Jorgensen
Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland by Hannah Kent
Guts: A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances by Melissa Leong
Destination moon by Kate Reid
Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath by S. Shakthidharan
Dropbear by Philip Bunting
How to help when you really want to help by Davina-Bell
Here Come the Cousins by Maggie Hutchings
The Train at the End of My Street by Tom Jellett
Where would you go? by Alison Lester
Last One Out by Jane Harper
The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey
One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald
The Detective by Matthew Reilly
The Power of Choice by Neale Daniher
The Australian Wars by Rachel Perkins
Broken Brains by Jamila Rizvi
She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women by Sita Sargeant
Planting for Native Birds, Bees and Butterflies: How to Create a Garden That Attracts Australian Wildlife by Jaclyn Crupi
Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to find joy in 100 recipes by Helen Goh
A Woman's Eye, Her Art by Drusilla Modjeska
Wild by Design: Naturalistic Gardening for Modern Australian Landscapes by Tim Pilgrim
THAI: Anywhere and Everywhere by Nat Thaipun
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Alchemised by SenLinYu
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray
Pissants by Brandon Jack
Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan
Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers by Zoe Terakes
The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage
Very Impressive For Your Age by Eleanor Kirk
Wait Here by Lucy Nelson
This Dream Will Devour Us by Emma Clancey
Cruel Is the Light by Sophie Clark
A Murder Is Going Down by Kate Emery
This Stays Between Us by Margot McGovern
Sonny & Tess by Nova Weetman
The Rot by Evelyn Araluen
Defiance (Navy Justice, Book 3) by Don Brown
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories by Debra Dank
Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place by Kate Grenville
Nock Loose: Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons by Patrick Marlborough
A Savage Turn by Luke Patterson
Hello Cocky : a stickybeak at the cockatoo by Hilary Bell
Little Bones by Sandy Bigna
The first sunrise by Nessa Stevens
Between by Anna Walker
Ningaloo by Tim Winton
The Power of Choice by Julian Kingma
There's a Prawn in Parliament House by Annabel Crabb
Oceanforged 1: The Wicked Ship by Amelia Mellor
Inked by Jake A. Minton
Mega Rich Guinea Pigs by Kate and Jol Temple
Spirit of the Crocodile by Michelle Scott Tucker

Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2026

Announced April 7

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner 2026

Announced April 6

British Science Fiction Association Award Winner 2025

Announced April 5

Lambda Literary Award Finalist 2026

Announced March 18
House of Beth by Kerry Cullen
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories by Demree McGhee
The Salvage: A Novel by Anbara Salam
And I'll Take Out Your Eyes: A Novel by A. M. Sosa
Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir by Gabrielle Drolet
The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey
unMothered, unTongued: Lyric Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction) by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined by Scott Wayne
Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
Moon as Salted Lemon by Clayre Benzadon
Hover by Liza Flum
antibody: poems by Rebecca Salazar
Blue Opening: Poems by Chet'la Sebree
The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson
The South by Tash Aw
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett
Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter
The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Daniel Brook
Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays by Thomas Dai
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
It Was Never Supposed to Be by Ben Klein
boy maybe: poems (Raised Voices) by W.J. Lofton
Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir
Kitchen Hymns by Padraig Ó Tuama
He's to Die For by Erin Dunn
Disco Witches of Fire Island: A Novel by Blair Fell
A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky
milktooth by Jaime Burnet
A Sharp Endless Need: A Novel by Marisa Crane
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
A Language of Limbs: A Novel by Dylin Hardcastle
Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (Black Power) by Mary Frances Phillips
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland―A True Account of Her Fight Against Art theft and Tyranny in WWII Paris by Michelle Young
Glove Money by Sophia Dahlin
The Natural Order of Things: Poems by Donika Kelly
savings time: Poems by Roya Marsh
pleasureis amiracle (Nightboat Books) by Bianca Rae Messinger
Cactus Flowers: Selected Poems by Judith Teixeira
Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond
House of Rayne by Harley Laroux
The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair
Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
The New Lesbian Pulp by Sarah Fonseca
Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing by Alden Jones
Come Out and Play : The Queer Sports Project by Meghan Kemp-Gee
Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes) by Alex D. Ketchum
Queer Lens: A History of Photography by Paul Martineau
JIM!: Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall by Jerrold Connors
A Year of Pride and Joy: LGBTQ+ Voices Share Their Life Passions (Year of Joy) by Simon James Green
The Bi Book by AJ Irving
O.K. Is Gay: A Picture Book by Vincent X. Kirsch
Devin's Gift by Alana Tyson
Tales From Beyond the Rainbow: Ten LGBTQ+ fairy tales proudly reclaimed by Pete Jordi Wood
Love, Misha by Askel Aden
Spent by Alison Bechdel
Gaysians by Mike Curato
Precious Rubbish by Kayla E.
Soften the Blow by Bread Tarleton
Ain't No Mo' by Jordan E Cooper
Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill
It's All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango
The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu
Glitch Girl! by Rainie Oet
A Song for You and I by K. O'Neill
Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy
Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter: A Novel by Samantha Crewson
A Queer Case by Robert Holtom
Guest Privileges by Gaar Adams
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders by Sarah Aziza
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers by Dr. Anthony Delaney
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovatt
A Gentleman's Gentleman: A Novel by TJ Alexander
Fanboy in the Falls by J.E. Birk
It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram
Single Player by Tara Tai
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho
Beings: A Novel by Ilana Masad
Two Truths and a Lie: A Novel by Cory O'Brien
Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen
Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World (Sexual Cultures, 63) by Sarah Ensor
Sodomy's Solicitations: A Right to Queerness (Sexuality Studies) by Joseph J. Fischel
Lessons in drag : a queer manual for academics, artists, and aunties by Kareem Khubchandani
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State by Eithne Luibhéid
Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization by Iain Morland
An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys by Rob Costello
The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner
He's So Possessed with Me by Corey Liu
Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters by Miriam Zoila Pérez
Come Home to My Heart by Riley Redgate
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color―A Moving Anthology Celebrating Joy, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery by Denne Michele Norris
Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare
YEET! by Jason B Crawford
Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar
Reprise: Poems and Photographs by Golden
Local Woman by jzl jmz
Death of the First Idea: Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Wayward creatures by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La canción de Cenex, hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
a body more tolerable by jaye simpson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlist 2026

Announced March 18

PEN/Hemingway Award Winner 2026

Announced March 16

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 2025

Announced March 16

Nebula Award Nominee 2025

Announced March 15

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction Finalist 2025

Announced March 15

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards Finalist 2026

Announced March 11

Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing Shortlist 2026

Announced March 10

British Book Awards Shortlist 2026

Announced March 6
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Oh Dear, Look What I Got! by Michael Rosen
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
The Names by Florence Knapp
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory
Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business! by Jamie Smart
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Luke Sherlock
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Alchemised by SenLinYu
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One of Us by Elizabeth Day
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman
A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke
When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between: A Story of Love and Friendship by James Corden
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie
The Deep Magic of Daily Consistency: A Life Changing Way to Set Your Greatness Free by Robin Sharma
The Adventures of Rap Kid by MC Grammar
Lottie Brooks vs The Ultra Mean Girls by Katie Kirby
Fearless by Lauren Roberts
Skandar and the Spirit War by A. F. Steadman
A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson
Fold-Out + Play: Doll's House by Ingela P. Arrhenius
My Rice is Best by Selina Brown
You and Your Body: A First Look Inside the Human Body by Punam Krishan
Sammy Feels Shy by Tom Percival
The Wizard's Guide to Magical Experiments by A. J. Wood
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
The Tenant by Freida McFadden
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell
The House of Wolf by Tony Robinson
The Artist by Lucy Steeds
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Beyond / Tu Hwnt - Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers by Bethany Handley
The Other Father Christmas by Serena Holly
Human, Animal by Seth Insua
The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed
The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don’t―Yet by Keon West
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Who Killed Nessie?: The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster by Paul Cornell
InvestiGators: Case Files by John Patrick Green
Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey
This Slavery by Sophie Rickard
Ginseng Roots: A Memoir by Craig Thompson
To the Women: Wise Words Every Woman Needs by Donna Ashworth
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy
Eat Yourself Healthy: Jamie’s Ultimate Cookbook for Everyday Healthy Eating - With a 2-Week Health Kickstart Plan by Jamie Oliver
Padella: Iconic Pasta at Home by Tim Siadatan
Protein in 15: 80 Delicious Recipes For Quick, Tasty, Unprocessed Meals by The Body Coach by Joe Wicks
Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore
Our Sweet Violet by Rosie Goodwin
King of Envy by Ana Huang
An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell
All Together for Christmas by Sarah Morgan
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
Ice by Jacek Dukaj
Brimstone by Callie Hart
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist 2026

Announced March 3

Audie Award Winner 2026

Announced March 2

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2026

Announced March 2

The Children's Book Award Shortlist 2026

Announced March 2

CCBC Choices 2026

Announced February 25
How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander
Here Is a Book: A Picture Book by Elisha Cooper
Mary Oliver, Holding on to Wonder by Erin Frankel
The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma and His Gifts to the World (A Picture Book Biography) by James Howe
Making Light Bloom: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps by Sandra Nickel
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge
Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins--The First Lady of Children's Music by Traci N. Todd
His Fairytale Life: A Book About Hans Christian Andersen by Jane Yolen
JIM!: Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall by Jerrold Connors
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman
Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel by Emmy Kastner
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly
Hick: The trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart by Sarah Miller
Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson
The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man's Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz
Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg―A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines by Catherine Thimmesh
I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin
Henry’s Picture-Perfect Day: Book 3 by Jenn Bailey
Bulldozer Goes to School (Bulldozer and Friends, 2) by Elise Broach
Bulldozer's Big Rescue (Bulldozer and Friends, 1) by Elise Broach
Brianna Banana, Helper of the Day (Orca Echoes) by Lana Button
The Beach Day: Three-and-a-Half Stories (3) (Bat, Cat & Rat) by Ame Dyckman
Night Light by Michael Emberley
Pickle on Wheels (I Like to Read Comics) by Sylvie Kantorovitz
Duck and Cat Ride the Riverboat (I Like to Read Comics) by Drew Panckeri
Earl & Worm #1: The Bad Idea and Other Stories (Earl and Worm) by Greg Pizzoli
Earl & Worm #2: The Big Mess and Other Stories (Earl and Worm) by Greg Pizzoli
Earl & Worm #3: Snow Problem and Other Stories (Earl and Worm) by Greg Pizzoli
Owlets and Tarts: Ready-to-Read Level 2 (Mouse and Spoon) by Cynthia Rylant
Stella & Marigold (Stella and Marigold) by Annie Barrows
Orris and Timble: Lost and Found by Kate DiCamillo
The Summer of the Bone Horses: A Chapter Book by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
The Faraway Forest: Wally’s Route by Debbie Fong
A Mystery in Pocketville by Sylvie Kantorovitz
Your turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly
Have a Good Trip, Mousse! by Claire Lebourg
Whales in the City by Nancy F. Castaldo
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan
The Black Mambas: The World's First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit by Kelly Crull
Ablaze: The Story of America's First Female Smokejumper by Jessica Lawson
Not Like Every Day: Finding Calm During School Lockdown Drills by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
Parks: A Nonfiction Picture Book About Parks Around the World by Majewski Marc
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights by Ashley Hope Pérez
Bird brothers, a delhi story by Rina Singh
Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate
It's All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Sea Legs by Jules Bakes
Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland
The Enemy's Daughter by Anne Blankman
Scattergood by H. M. Bouwman
Rabbit Rabbit by Dori Hillestad Butler
The Zuzu Secret by Miriam Chernick
The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats
The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall by Charis Cotter
Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales) by Kate DiCamillo
Growing Home by Beth Ferry
Max in the Land of Lies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion) by Adam Gidwitz
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila
Oasis by Guojing
Dream On by Shannon Hale
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman
The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba
Benny on the Case by Wesley King
The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon by Grace Lin
Dreki: My Icelandic Dragon by Mary Logue
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina
The Trouble with Secrets by Naomi Milliner
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri
At Home in a Faraway Place by Lynne Rae Perkins
Halfway to Somewhere: (A Graphic Novel) by Jose Pimienta
Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Midwatch by Judith Rossell
Biggest Fake in the Universe by Johan Rundberg
The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Experiment by Rebecca Stead
The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson
Bad Badger: A Love Story by Maryrose Wood
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
Butterfly Heart by Moa Backe Åstot
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan
The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard
Reasons We Break by Jesmeen Kaur Deo
Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
Hekate by Nikita Gill
I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant
And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi Griffis
The Butterfly’s Sting by Abbie Harlow
If I Could Go Back by johnsonbriana
Biology Lessons by Melissa Kantor
Lady’s Knight by Amie Kaufman
Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno
A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
Under a Fire-Red Sky: A Novel by Geraldine McCaughrean
Bird of a Thousand Stories (Once There Was) by Kiyash Monsef
Angelica and the Bear Prince: A Graphic Novel by Trung Le Nguyen
Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue
Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
Come Home to My Heart by Riley Redgate
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith
Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk
This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
Daughter of Doom by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem
The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape by Amy Alznauer
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum
Revolutionary Mary: The True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America's Fight for Freedom by Karen Blumenthal
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming
The House on the Canal: The Story of the House that Hid Anne Frank by Thomas Harding
White House Secrets: Medical Lies and Cover-Ups (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow
Lady of the Lines: How Maria Reiche Saved the Nazca Lines by Sweeping the Desert by Michaela MacColl
Earthrise: The Story of the Photograph That Changed the Way We See Our Planet by Leonard S. Marcus
The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis by Erin McGuire
Snowshoe Kate and the Hospital Built for Pennies by Margi Preus
American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation by Barb Rosenstock
Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace by Caren Stelson
The Interpreter by Olivia Abtahi
Tíos and Primos by Jacqueline Alcántara
Elsa's Chessboard by Jenny Andrus
Wind Watchers by Micha Archer
The Three-Year Tumble: Based on a Korean Folktale by Dayeon Auh
Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan
Fish Fry Friday: A Picture Book by Winsome Bingham
The Playdate by Uje Brandelius
The Moving Book by Lisa Brown
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess
Mama Car by Lucy Catchpole
To See an Owl by Matthew Cordell
Twigs and Stones by Joy Cowley
A Song for Two Homes by Michael Datcher
It's Corn Picking Time! by Jill Esbaum
All by Myself: (But Sometimes I Need a Little Help!) by Elizabeth Everett
Broken by X. Fang
My Friend May by Julie Flett
Island Storm by Brian Floca
Trouble Dog: From Shelter Dog to Conservation Hero (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers (SSCR)) by Carol A. Foote
Taro Gomi’s Big Book of Verbs by Tarō Gomi
The House That Floated by Guojing
Let's Be Bees by Shawn Harris
Sunflower Seeds by Ellen Heck
A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer
Teeny Tiendas: The Hardware Store/La ferretería by Lourdes Heuer
Where the Deer Slip Through by Katey Howes
Late Today by Jungyoon Huh
Pee and Poo. A Manual for How To Go To the Bathroom: A Manual for How To Go To the Bathroom (Somos8) by Susanna Isern
The Sleeper Train by Mick Jackson
While We Wait by Bee Johnson
Saturday Morning at the 'Shop by Keenan Jones
Our Lake by Angie Kang
Home is a heartbeat by Laekan Zea Kemp
Blue Sky Morning by Jihyun Kim
Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers by Ole Könnecke
Rez Kid by Andrew Landry
Call Me Gray by Andrew Larsen
A Pocket Full of Rocks by Kristin Mahoney
A Magician's Flower by Marika Maijala
The Riding Lesson by Jennifer K. Mann
Dawn: Friends. Changes. Together. Alone. by Ann M. Martin
Our Mothers' Names: Love in Many Languages by Uma Menon
Changing Tides: A Story of new beginnings by Júlia Moscardó
Let's Rumble!: A Rough-and-Tumble Book of Play by Rachel G. Payne
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin
The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey
A Place for Us by James Ransome
Oh Dear, Look What I Got! by Michael Rosen
Hornbeam by and large by Cynthia Rylant
Next to Me by Daniel Salmieri
How To Reach the Moon by Nicolás Schuff
Freya and the Snake by Fredrik Sonck
Raven's Ribbons by Tasha Spillett
Anything by Rebecca Stead
Make new friends by Joshua David Stein
Smelly Peggy by Helen Stephens
So Tired, So Wide Awake by Susanne Straßer
Hilwa's Gifts by Safa Suleiman
Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) by Corey R. Tabor
We Go Slow by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
We Are the Scrappy Ones by Rebekah Taussig
Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow
Picking Tea with Baba by Bin Xu
Go, Sloth, Go! by Toni Yuly
In the Desert by David Elliott
How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends by Joyce Sidman
Five Little Friends: A Collection of Finger Rhymes by Sean Taylor
This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets by Traci N. Todd
Zero! The Number That Almost Wasn't by Sarah Albee
I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive by Leslie Barnard Booth
The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle by Maddalena Bearzi
Hurricane by Jason Chin
Mighty: The Story of an Oak Tree Ecosystem by Henry Cole
In the World of Whales by Michelle Cusolito
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo
Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe by Amy S. Hansen
Poo Pile on the Prairie (Tiny Habitats) by Amy Hevron
Toes, teeth, and tentacles : a curious counting book by Steve Jenkins
Who Owns the Moon?: And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space by Cynthia Levinson
The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle by Sy Montgomery
Sun Bird: The Amazing Journey of the Arctic Tern by Lindsay Moore
Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery by Colleen Paeff
The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid World War II Army by Penny Parker Klostermann
Behold the Chameleon by Suzanne Slade
The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street
3 Weeks in the Rainforest: A Rapid Inventory in the Amazon by Jennifer Swanson
My Presentation Today is about the Anaconda by Bibi Dumon Tak
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story by Allan Wolf
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Rewriting the Rules: How Dr. Kathleen Friel Created New Possibilities for Brain Research and Disability by Danna Zeiger
This Year, a Witch! by Zoey Abbott
Gather Grateful by Megan Litwin
Slow Down, Shoshi: It's Shabbat in Uganda by Rabbi Shoshana Nambi
One Spring Up North by JohnOwens
The 13th Day of Christmas by Adam Rex
Shabbat Is... by A. J. Sass
Where Are You, Brontë? by Tomie dePaola
My Brother by Laura Djupvik
And They Walk On by Kevin Maillard

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist 2025

Announced February 18
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Strangers by Ekow Eshun
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Palaver by Bryan Washington
Ibis by Justin Haynes
Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection by Jaime Hernandez
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield
El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
A Magnificent Loneliness by Allison Benis White
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
Luminous by Silvia Park
Angelica and the Bear Prince: A Graphic Novel by Trung Le Nguyen
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast
People Like Us by Jason Mott
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jewish Lives) by Ruth Franklin
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill
A Greek Tragedy by Jeanne Carstensen
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary by Stefan Fatsis
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas
Only Way Out: A Novel by Tod Goldberg
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
Gloria by Andrés Felipe Solano
Plum by Andy Anderegg
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi
Milk White Steed by Michael Kennedy
Cannon by Lee Lai
The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams
Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters by Jennifer Clapp
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 by Eli Erlick
High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America by Aaron G. Fountain Jr.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Ace Atkins
Crooks by Lou Berney
The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
King of Ashes: A Novel by S. A. Cosby
The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Blue Opening: Poems by Chet'la Sebree
I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
Lazarus Species by Devon Walker-Figueroa
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World by Peter Brannen
Strata: Stories from Deep Time by Laura Poppick
The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin
My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser by Jamie Jo Hoang
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr

National Jewish Book Award Winner 2025

Announced February 18

Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2026

Announced February 17

PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist 2026

Announced February 17

Southern Book Prize Winner 2026

Announced February 14

Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten 2026

Announced February 12

Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection 2026

Announced February 12
Love, Misha by Askel Aden
Monster Locker (Monster Locker, 1) by Jorge Aguirre
Kindergarten Wars, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) (Kindergarten Wars, 1) by You Chiba
Kindergarten Wars, Vol. 2 (Volume 2) by You Chiba
Spacewalking with You 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Meat Eaters by Meredith McClaren
Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin
You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
Eden of Witches Volume 1 (Eden of Witches, 1) by Yumeji
Eden of Witches Volume 2 (Volume 2) by Yumeji
Eden of Witches Volume 3 (Eden of Witches, 3) by Yumeji
Eden of Witches Volume 4 (Volume 4) by Yumeji
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari
Champion: A Graphic Novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) (I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, 1) by Atchi Ai
I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 2 (Volume 2) (I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, 2) by Atchi Ai
Aria of the Beech Forest, Vol. 2 by Yugiri Aika
Aria of the Beech Forest, Vol. 3 by Yugiri Aika
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Sumiko Arai
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 2 by Sumiko Arai
Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel by David Arnold
Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Vita Ayala
The Boy Wonder by Juni Ba
Trumpets of Death by Simon Bournel-Bosson
Family Force V: Book One (Family Force V, 1) by Matt Braly
Rhiannon by Kiara Brinkman
Fitting Indian by Jyoti Chand
How to Draw a Secret by Cindy Chang
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho
I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
Drive (A Graphic Novel) by Cynthia L. Copeland
Zawa + The Belly of the Beast by Michael Dialynas
Brielle and Bear: Volume 1 by Salomey Doku
Blades of Furry, Vol. 1 by Emily Erdos
The History of Everything by Victoria Evans
Huda F Wants to Know? by Huda Fahmy
Kirby's Lessons for Falling {in Love} by Laura Gao
Teen Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia
Off Menu: A Graphic Novel by Oliver Gerlach
Botticelli's Apprentice by Ursula Murray Husted
Confession by Kaiji Kawaguchi
Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit: A Graphic Novel by Kim Hyun Sook
My Instructor Won't Yield by Deme Kingyobachi
Beetle & the Chimera Carnival (The Beetle Books) by Aliza Layne
Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide by Pablo Leon
Undergrowth by Ricky Lima
A Bite of Pepper by Balazs Lorinczi
Rebis by Irene Marchesini
Hourglass by Barbara Mazzi
We Could Be Magic by Marissa Meyer
You Belong Here by Sara Phoebe Miller
Hungry Heart by Jem Milton
Thief of the Heights by Son M.
Red Threads: A Graphic Novel by ila Nguyen-Hayama
Angelica and the Bear Prince: A Graphic Novel by Trung Le Nguyen
Cry Out Loud: (A Graphic Novel) by Tara O'Connor
The Firelight Apprentice by Bree Paulsen
To the Stars and Back (A Graphic Novel): Volume 1 (To the Stars and Back, 1) by Peglo
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Halfway to Somewhere: (A Graphic Novel) by Jose Pimienta
Leap by Simina Popescu
Arcana: The Lost Heirs by Sam Prentice-Jones
Suitor Armor: Volume 1 by Purpah
Suitor Armor: Volume 2 by Purpah
Suitor Armor: Volume 3 by Purpah
RuriDragon, Vol. 1 (1) by 眞藤雅興
Suzume 1 by Makoto Shinkai
Suzume 2 by Makoto Shinkai
Suzume 3 by Makoto Shinkai
Tall Water by S. J. Sindu
Little Moons by Jen Storm
Otaku Vampire's Love Bite, Vol. 1 by Julietta Suzuki
This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki
Cosmos, Vol. 1 (1) by Ryuhei Tamura
Evil-ish by Kennedy Tarrell
Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables by Rey Terciero
Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson
Flip by Ngozi Ukazu
Fall in Love, You False Angels, Vol. 1 by Coco Uzuki
Fall in Love, You False Angels, Vol. 2 by Coco Uzuki
Fall in Love, You False Angels, Vol. 3 by Coco Uzuki
The Flip Side: A Graphic Novel by Jason Walz
Hollow by Shannon Watters
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story by Allan Wolf
Almark, Vol. 1 (novel): The Institute for Magic (Almark (novel)) by Noboru Yamada
Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland by Kasia Babis
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs
Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu
Weirdo by Tony Weaver, Jr.
I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten 2026

Announced February 9

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection 2026

Announced February 9
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
Songlight by Moira Buffini
I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins
Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho
Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher
Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between by L. M. Elliott
On Again, Awkward Again by Kelly Entrada, Erin
The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine by Lindsay A. Franklin
Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales
And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi Griffis
The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton
Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond
Diet Soda Club by Chaz Hayden
The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs
Lady’s Knight by Amie Kaufman
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
Pick the Lock by A. S. King
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C. B. Lee
I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Shampoo Unicorn by Sawyer Lovett
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire by Don Martin
Sometimes the Girl by Jennifer Mason-Black
Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough
The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner
A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya
This Is the Year by Gloria Muñoz
These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa
When We Ride: A Novel by Rex Ogle
Salvación by Sandra Proudman
The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Thrashers by Julie Soto
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Dust: A Novel by Alison Stine
Dear Manny by Nic Stone
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma
Heir by Sabaa Tahir
The Otherwhere Post (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick) by Emily J. Taylor
The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew
On the Wings of La Noche by Vanessa L. Torres
This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat
A Second Chance on Earth by Juan Vidal
Night Owls by A.R. Vishny
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
The Grove by Brooks Whitney Phillips
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson

Golden Kite Award Winner 2026

Announced February 6

Golden Kite Award Honor 2026

Announced February 6

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlist 2026

Announced February 5

Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist 2026

Announced February 4

Caldecott Medal Medal Winner 2026

Announced January 26

Caldecott Medal Honor Book 2026

Announced January 26

Alex Award Winner 2026

Announced January 26

Newbery Medal Medal Winner 2026

Announced January 26

Newbery Medal Honor Book 2026

Announced January 26

Printz Award Winner 2026

Announced January 26

Printz Award Honor 2026

Announced January 26

Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 Top Ten 2026

Announced January 21

Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 Selection 2026

Announced January 21
Girls on the Rise by Amanda Gorman
Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré
The Black Mambas: The World's First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit by Kelly Crull
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda
Ollie In Between by Jess Callans
One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr
The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday by Kelsey B. Toney
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman
Missing Momma: A Picture Book by Winsome Bingham
Mariam’s Dream: The Story of Mariam Al-Shaar and Her Food Truck of Hope by Leila Boukarim
A Stronger Home by Katrina Chen
I Love Me from A to Z: A Body Positive ABC Board Book by Emily Lauren Dick
Let's Talk About Abortion by Carly Kol
The Biker Girls by Shehzil Malik
Meena's Saturday by Kusum Mepani
Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition) by Marcie Rendon
One Day in June: A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
A Spoonful of the Sea by Hyewon Yum
Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman Architect by Marzieh Abbas
She Persisted: Dolores Huerta by Monica Brown
Introducing Sandwina: The Strongest Woman in the World! by Vicki Conrad
The ABCs of Women's History by Rio Cortez
Make Your Mark: The Empowering True Story of the First Known Black Female Tattoo Artist by Jacci Gresham
Women on a Mission: The Remarkable Heroes Who Put Men on the Moon by Suzanne Slade
Toypurina: Japchivit Leader, Medicine Woman, Tongva Rebel by Cheyenne M. Stone
Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding by Jennifer Swanson
Mystery Driver: The Story of Alice Johnson and the First Soap Box Derby by Elizabeth Tracy
Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace
The One & Only Googoosh: Iran's Beloved Superstar by Azadeh Westergaard
Aarzu All Around by Marzieh Abbas
Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth (Girls Who Love Science) by Jeannine Atkins
The Secrets of Lovelace Academy by Marie Benedict
The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats
Drive (A Graphic Novel) by Cynthia L. Copeland
Tear This Down by Barbara Dee
Miss Liberty by Erin Moonyeen Haley
Botticelli's Apprentice by Ursula Murray Husted
Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan
The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel by Cameron Mukwa
One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel by Rita Williams-Garcia
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly
Latina Superheroes: Jalisco & Santa (Volume 1) by Kayden Phoenix
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf
Fyrebirds by Kate J. Armstrong
The Education of Kia Greer by Alanna Bennett
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
To the Bone by Alena Bruzas
Fitting Indian by Jyoti Chand
Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher
Top Heavy by Rhonda Dechambeau
Hear Her Howl by Kim DeRose
Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe
Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between by L. M. Elliott
The Butterfly’s Sting by Abbie Harlow
Lady or the Tiger by Heather M. Herrman
Lady Knight by Amalie Howard
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle
Biology Lessons by Melissa Kantor
Lady’s Knight by Amie Kaufman
No Rules Tonight: A Graphic Novel by Kim Hyun Sook
Pick the Lock by A. S. King
A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow by Kendall Kulper
Witchkiller by Ashlee Latimer
Imposter by Cait Levin
The Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu
The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
Reasons to Hate Me by Susan Metallo
These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban
When the Mapou Sings by Nadine Pinede
Seven for a Secret by Mary E. Roach
The Siren and the Star by Colby Cedar Smith
Little Moons by Jen Storm
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma
This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki
Knocking on Windows: A Memoir by Jeannine Atkins
Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters' Fight for Abolition and Women's Rights by Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Hick: The trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart by Sarah Miller

Edgar Award Nominee 2026

Announced January 20
V is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death by Kathryn Harkup
The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness by Andrew Klavan
Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard―A Biography of the Master of American Crime Writing by C. M. Kushins
Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train by Stephen Rebello
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake
Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation by Michael Cannell
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home by Gregg Olsen
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch
All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
Johnny Careless: A Novel by Kevin Wade
History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook
Cold as Hell by Kelley Armstrong
Rage by Linda Castillo
Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg
The Red Letter by Daniel G. Miller
Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King
What Happened Then by Erin Soderberg Downing
A Study in Secrets by Debbi Michiko Florence
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Midwatch by Judith Rossell
Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Murder Two Doors Down: An HOA Homicide Mystery
Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Hard Town by Adam Plantinga
The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Luister by Sacha Bronwasser
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy
Broke Road by Matthew Spencer
One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman
Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes: A Mystery by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
No Comfort for the Dead by R.P. O'Donnell
All This Could Be Yours: A Novel by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Last Dance Before Dawn by Katharine Schellman
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron
This Is Where We Die by Cindy R. X. He
The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
Codebreaker: A Novel by Jay Martel

Audie Award Finalist 2026

Announced January 19
Shot Clock by Andrew Bourelle
What Could Go Wrong? by Scott Z. Burns
The Making of Jackson Parrish: A Parrish Prequel (A Random House Audiobook Original) by Liv Constantine
The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight 1 by Tim Foley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
King of Ashes: A Novel by S. A. Cosby
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb by Garrett M. Graff
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis by Scott Payne
Axes and O's (Starlight Haven Lumbersnacks) by Kayla Grosse
House of Rayne by Harley Laroux
Torment: Part One (The Bleeding Hearts Series) by Dylan Page
The Secrets We Hide (Balance of Power) by Berlin Wick
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: A Novel by James Goodhand
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
So Far Gone by Jess Walter
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Secret Sister by Sarah A. Denzil
Gray Dawn by Walter Mosley
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang
I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free by Lee Hawkins
Ditching the Sky: A memoir of triumph against all odds by Heidi A Porch
We Don't Talk About Carol: A Novel by Kristen L. Berry
The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel by Brandon Hobson
Bog Queen by Anna North
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap by Rob Reiner
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Notes to John by Joan Didion
The End of the World as We Know It by Christopher Golden
Alibis (Alibis Collection, #1-6) by Freida McFadden
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts
To Die For by David Baldacci
Havoc: A Novel by Christopher Bollen
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Everyone Is Lying to You: A Thriller by Jo Piazza
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Lady or the Tiger by Heather M. Herrman
The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Otherwhere Post (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick) by Emily J. Taylor
Benny on the Case by Wesley King
Pajammin': A Reggae Pajama Party for the Whole Family Inspired by Bob Marley's Jamming by Ziggy Marley
Prince Among Slaves: The Remarkable True Story of an African Prince Enslaved in Mississippi, and His Journey Home by N. H. Senzai
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

USBBY Outstanding International Book 2026

Announced January 16
Les riches heures de Jacominus Gainsborough by Rébecca Dautremer
My Brother by Laura Djupvik
Sound: Discovering the Vibrations We Hear by Olga Fadeeva
The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba

Philip K. Dick Award Nominees 2026

Announced January 13
No works added yet.

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2025

Announced January 12
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled by Alex Green
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian
We Do Not Part by Kang Han
Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
Night Watch: Poems by Kevin Young
Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by Ashley D. Farmer
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star by Mayukh Sen
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Greyhound: A Memoir by Joanna Pocock
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yōko Tawada
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg
The Frog in the Throat by Markus Werner
Crown by Evanthia Bromiley
Salvage (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Hedgie Choi
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
The Slip by Lucas Schaefer
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick
America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
The Other Love: Poems by Henri Cole
Death of the First Idea: Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Unravel: Poems by Tolu Oloruntoba
Chronicle of Drifting by Yuki Tanaka

German Crime Fiction Prize 2025

Announced December 2025

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten 2026

Announced December 2025

National Book Critics Circle Award Longlist 2025

Announced December 2025

Boston Globe Best Book 2025

Announced December 2025
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
Exit Zero: Stories by Marie-Helene Bertino
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Audition by Katie Kitamura
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories by Ed Park
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Terrestrial History: A Novel by Joe Mungo Reed
Endling by Maria Reva
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser
Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin
At Last by Marisa Silver
Gliff by Ali Smith
Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu
Palaver by Bryan Washington
The Pelican Child: Stories by Joy Williams
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day
Oasis by Guojing
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge
Your turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly
The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon by Grace Lin
Coach (Track) by Jason Reynolds
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History by Adam Cohen
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall Fuller
Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream―An Exposé of Private Equity's Devastating Impact on American Lives, Communities, and the Economy by Megan Greenwell
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo
Crumb. Vida de Historietista by Dan Nadel
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Jeff Pearlman
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story by Brandy Schillace
Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk by Mike Sielski
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas
The Broken King by Michael Thomas
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971–2025 by John Edgar Wideman
How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess
Night Light by Michael Emberley
Island Storm by Brian Floca
Moon Song by Michaela Goade
How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman
Your Places Box Set by Jon Klassen
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika
Cat Nap by Brian Lies
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
The Strongest Heart by Saadia Faruqi
Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin

Irish Book Award Irish Book of the Year 2025

Announced December 2025

The Morning News Tournament of Books Short List 2026

Announced December 2025

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book 2025

Announced December 2025
Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry
Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins
Night Light by Michael Emberley
Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
The Strongest Heart by Saadia Faruqi
Everyday Bean by Stephanie Graegin
Oasis by Guojing
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge
Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston
Your turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly
Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz
Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson
How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum
Hurricane by Jason Chin
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming
Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel by Emmy Kastner
We Carry the Sun by Tae Keller
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin
The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
The Endless Sea by Chi Thai
I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin
Sato the Rabbit by Yuki Ainoya
The Moving Book by Lisa Brown
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess
Island Storm by Brian Floca
Moon Song by Michaela Goade
The House That Floated by Guojing
When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Our Lake by Angie Kang
Your Farm (Your Places) by Jon Klassen
Your Forest (Your Places) by Jon Klassen
Your Island (Your Places) by Jon Klassen
Cat Nap by Brian Lies
A Place for Us by James Ransome
Afloat by Kirli Saunders
How To Reach the Moon by Nicolás Schuff
Anything by Rebecca Stead
How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends by Joyce Sidman

Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year 2025

Announced December 2025