2025 Book Award Winners

Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the man Twain called Jim, and the first thing he changes is the voice. In...

Istvan is fifteen, living with his mother in a quiet apartment block in Hungary, friendless at school and almost entirely silent. A married...

Raja is sixty three, a beloved high school philosophy teacher in Beirut, gay, wry and exquisitely put upon, and he shares a tiny apartment with the...

Isabel lives alone in her late mother's house in rural Overijssel, in a Netherlands fifteen years past the war and determined to say nothing about...

Kyungha is a writer living alone near Seoul who cannot sleep and dreams, night after night, of black tree trunks standing in snow by the sea. A...

Small Rain begins with pain so violent that it feels, the narrator says, as if someone "plunged a hand into [his] gut and grabbed hold and yanked."...

Benjamin Nathans traces the Soviet dissident movement from the years after Stalin's death, when the regime's methods of suppressing opposition...

Edda L. Fields-Black reconstructs the Combahee River Raid of June 1863, the Union operation Harriet Tubman helped plan and guide that freed more...

Kathleen DuVal tells a thousand year history of Indigenous nations across North America, beginning well before European contact with cities like...

Jason Roberts follows two eighteenth century naturalists racing to do the same impossible thing, catalog and organize every living creature on...

The title is a prophecy and an accusation at once. In October 2023, as the bombardment of Gaza began, the novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad...

Helen Garner has been keeping a diary all her writing life, and this collection gathers the volumes covering 1978 to 1998: from the aftermath of...

Husain's book is built from seven patients, seven people whose brain disorders each dissolved a different pillar of what we casually call the self,...

New and Selected Poems draws on four decades of Marie Howe's work, gathering material from her four previous collections, The Good Thief, What the...

Wellwater is a book about what sustains life where life is hard, water first of all, and it swept the poetry prizes of its year on both sides of...

Commander Taqtasa Blas, an imperial engineer, is found dead in a guest bedroom at a country house of the wealthy Haza clan, with leafy trees...

In 2012 a worker renovating a Montana parsonage finds a journal hidden in its wall. It was written in 1912 by Arthur Beaucarne, a minister who...

In 2012 a worker renovating a Montana parsonage finds a journal hidden in its wall. It was written in 1912 by Arthur Beaucarne, a minister who...

Commander Taqtasa Blas, an imperial engineer, is found dead in a guest bedroom at a country house of the wealthy Haza clan, with leafy trees...

A wedding party glitters in the garden of a Georgian villa on the Thames in Richmond, Pimm's and hierarchy in equal measure, while a few miles...

It is 1999 in this novel, and twelve year old Michael is anxious about the coming millennium in the specific, catalog hoarding way of a kid who has...

In Oklahoma, an older sister named Oginalii spends much of the book frustrated with her younger brother Chooch, who tags along everywhere and...

A Hungarian agricultural collective is collapsing, its land soaked by rain that never seems to let up, when word spreads through the handful of...