New Award Winning Fiction & Nonfiction

This page contains a regularly updated list of the newest award winning fiction and nonfiction. Award categories include:

Major Literary Fiction Awards: Includes awards from highly acclaimed organizations focused on literary fiction published in the English language.
Major Nonfiction Awards: Includes awards from recognized literary and academic sources on the subjects of history, biography, science writing, general nonfiction and more.
Genre-Based Awards: Includes awards specifically related to genre fiction such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance and mystery.
Cultural & Identity Awards: Includes awards celebrating specific and often overlooked cultural identities and communities.
Poetry Awards: Includes awards for poets and poetry of renown.

Pulitzer Prize (2025)		PEN/Faulkner (2025)
	James by Percival Everett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town.		Small Rain by Garth Greenwell A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.
Booker Prizes (2025)
	NATIONAL AWARD Flesh by David Szalay Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary, a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates. István is soon drawn into a series of events that leave him forever a stranger to peers, his mother, and himself.		INTERNATIONAL AWARD Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq; translated by Deepa Bhasthi In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. These portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq's years as a journalist and lawyer.
National Book Awards (2025)
	GENERAL FICTION The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine In a tiny Beirut apartment, 63-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa views her son’s desire for privacy as a personal affront.		TRANSLATED LITERATURE We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing his life as a nun, he’s become Antonio. Now he cares for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement and hounded by the army he deserted.
National Book Critics Circle Awards (2024)		Nobel Prize for Literature (2025)
	My Friends by Hisham Matar Khaled embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. As the Arab Spring erupts, he is forced to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.		Author: László Krasznahorkai Latest Work: Herscht 07769 The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter.
PEN America Literary Awards (2025)		Mass Book Awards (2025)
	Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler When his working-stiff parents kick him out of their suburban home, mere months into his frangible sobriety, Dennis Monk spends his first dry summer couch surfing through South Philadelphia, struggling to find a place for himself in the throng of adulthood. Monk's haphazard pilgrimage leads him through a city in flux: growing, gentrifying, haunted by its history and its unrealized potential.		The Naming Song by Jededian Berry There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing When the words went away, the world changed. All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named-Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names-could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds.
British Book Awards (2025)
	GENERAL FICTION James by Percival Everett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town.		DEBUT FICTION Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew.

Pulitzer Prizes (2025)
	HISTORY Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black A revelatory account of a slave rebellion that brought 756 enslaved people to freedom in a single day, weaving military strategy and family history with the transition from bondage to freedom.		GENERAL NONFICTION To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benajmin Nathans In the 1960s, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged from within by a cohort of dissidents who eventually achieved global fame, but as historian Benjamin Nathans argues, theirs was a homegrown phenomenon; activists built the anti-totalitarian movement on fundamental concepts from within the communist pantheon.
	BIOGRAPHY Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts The double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, 18th century contemporaries who devoted their lives to identifying and describing nature’s secrets, and who continue to influence how we understand the world.		MEMOIR Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hull A work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.
National Book Critics Circle Awards (2024)
	GENERAL NONFICTION Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting.		BIOGRAPHY Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personiﬁed, but she was without a real place in the world. Brimming with all the ﬁzz and wildness of New York in the 1960s and ’70s, this is the ﬁrst biography of an unintentional pioneer who became an icon.
National Book Awards (2025)		British Book Awards (2025)
	One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and watching the slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.		Patriot by Alexei Navalny Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted—and will come.
PEN America Literary Awards (2025)
	ART OF THE ESSAY A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands by Dagoberto Gilb In these dispatches and meditations, Gilb proves himself a journeyman—a self-made Mexican American author from the working class, immersed in and inspired by books. He celebrates the dignity and durability of both intellectual and manual labor, and the people who do it.		SCIENCE WRITING Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts The double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, 18th century contemporaries who devoted their lives to identifying and describing nature’s secrets, and who continue to influence how we understand the world.
	BIOGRAPHY Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien A history of baseball and particularly the intractable, intertwined relationship between the game and gambling, culminating in Rose’s permanent banishment from the sport, and punctuated by the irony of the emergence of legalized sports betting.		GENERAL NONFICTION In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian Through the deeply researched tales of individuals during four historical waves of immigration, Minian argues that more lenient approaches that the U.S. has experimented with in the past, such as paroling immigrants rather than detaining them, have been equally effective and far less cruel.

Nebula Awards (2025)		Hugo Awards (2025)
	Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by impolite monster hunters, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth.		The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.
Locus Awards (2025)
	SCIENCE FICTION The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Bolizar Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet—causing another man to die in his place.		FANTASY A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher Cordelia's house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart.
Edgar Awards (2025)		Excellence in Graphic Literature (2024)
	The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell In the garden of a large Georgian villa in Southwest London, socialites and politicos swap gossip and sip Pimm’s while making snide remarks at each other. Not far from this frivolity, though, a body has been discovered. It appears to be an unfortunate accident, but the death is connected to this gathering of who’s who in a way that may spell scandal.		Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed Shubeik Lubeik - a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic - is the story of three characters navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale; mired in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the more expensive the wish, the more powerful and therefore the more likely to work as intended.
Bram Stoker Awards (2025)
	GENERAL HORROR The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter—and only one has in the past twenty years, until now.		DEBUT HORROR The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying yet enticing.
Romance Novel of the Year (2025)		Society of American Historians Award (2025)
	Now Comes the Mist by Julie C. Dao During her nightly sleepwalks, Lucy meets Vlad, who seems to see parts of her she has never let show before. Vlad seeks out the “perfect woman of the age,” who embodies all the values of her society, to live with him in immortality. For the first time, she feels herself able to share her darker side with someone. Thinking herself dreaming, she agrees to cheat death with him.		The East Indian by Brinda Charry Kidnapped and transported to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants must work the tobacco plantations. Orphaned and afraid, he initially longs for home, but as he adjusts to his new environment, he can envision a life for himself after servitude

BCALA Awards (2025)
	All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives.		James by Percival Everrett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town.
Stonewall Book Awards (2025)		ADCI Literary Awards (2025)
	Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend.		Alter Ego by Helen Heckety Hattie has a plan. Step 1: Leave her life in London behind and never look back. Step 2: Move to a cabin in the middle of nowhere, with only the endless woods and starry skies for neighbours. Step 3: Start her new life where nobody knows the truth about her.
APALA Award (2025)		Ignyte Award (2025)
	Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park Park envisions a reality in which the Korean Provisional Government still exists and links an unfinished KPG manuscript in disparate hands.		The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia An impoverished young man, Jagat, is found guilty of murder. For his crime, he is sentenced to the highest form of punishment: the sleep of death for a century, with the promise of revival should his innocence ever be proven. But his act sparks a bloody conflict in the great city of Peruma, with the Commune, an anarchist collective of workers, revolting against the Council, which has ruled Peruma for four hundred years.
National Jewish Book Awards (2024)		Christy Awards (2025)
	Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold After more than two decades of research, Christophe Lebold, who spent time with the poet in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself.		Bitter and Sweet by Rhonda McKnight Estranged sisters Mariah and Sabrina reunite to save their ailing grandfather's family restaurant, dredging up old wounds while discovering fresh opportunities.

Pulitzer Prizes (2025)		Poetry Foundation Awards (2025)
	New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe A collection drawn from decades of work that mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness, mortality and holiness.		Poet: Rigoberto González Latest Work: You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.
Griffin Poetry Prizes (2025)		Kingsley & Kate Tufts Award (2025)
	Northerny by Dawn Macdonald Here are no tidy tales of aurora borealis and adventures in snow. For Dawn Macdonald, the North is not an escape, a pathway to enlightenment, or a lifestyle choice. It’s a messy, beautiful, and painful point of origin.		English as a Second Language and Other Poems by Jaswinder Bolina Coated in an armor of wit and humor and steeped in the idiosyncrasies of language, English as a Second Language pits sentimentality against cynicism and the personal against the national.
Academy of American Poets Prize (2025)		BCALA Award (2025)
	[...] by Fady Joudah rom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.		Magic Enuff by Tara M. Stringfellow How is it possible to have a strong voice and also feel silenced? To be loyal to things and people that betray us? To burn as hot with rage as we do with love? Each poem asks how we can heal and sustain relationships with people, systems, and ourselves.

New Award Winning Fiction & Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize (2025)

PEN/Faulkner (2025)

Booker Prizes (2025)

National Book Awards (2025)

National Book Critics Circle Awards (2024)

PEN America Literary Awards (2025)

British Book Awards (2025)

Pulitzer Prizes (2025)

National Book Critics Circle Awards (2024)

National Book Awards (2025)

British Book Awards (2025)

PEN America Literary Awards (2025)

Nebula Awards (2025)

Locus Awards (2025)

Edgar Awards (2025)

Bram Stoker Awards (2025)

BCALA Awards (2025)

Stonewall Book Awards (2025)

National Jewish Book Awards (2023)

Pulitzer Prizes (2025)

Poetry Foundation Awards (2025)

Griffin Poetry Prizes (2025)

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Award (2025)

Academy of American Poets Prize (2025)

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