Awards

The 2025 Kirkus Prize

The winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature were announced on October 8th in an in-person ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York that also was livestreamed on Kirkus's YouTube channel.

Tom Beer, the editor-in-chief of Kirkus, said, “This year’s Kirkus Prize winners bring us vital messages for our time --- messages about the joys of community, the power of self-transformation, and the mutability of historical events --- all conveyed through exhilarating prose and pictures.”

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Macavity Awards 2025

The winners of this year’s Macavity Awards have been announced. The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories.

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2025 Thriller Awards

On June 21st, during ThrillerFest XX, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2025 Thriller Awards at the the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.

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The 2025 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize is Banu Mushtaq's HEART LAMP. Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, it is the first collection of short stories to win the prize.

Written between 1990 and 2023, the book's 12 stories chronicle the lives of women and girls in patriarchal communities in southern India. Mushtaq, a lawyer and major voice within progressive Kannada literature, is a prominent champion of women’s rights and a protester against caste and religious oppression in India, and was inspired to write the stories by the experiences of women who came to her seeking help. She becomes the second Indian author to win the International Booker Prize after Geetanjali Shree in 2022.

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2025

The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2024

The 45th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on April 25th. The best books of 2024 were recognized in 13 categories, along with the winners of the Robert Kirsch and Innovator’s awards.

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The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024

The winners of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 20th during a ceremony at the New School in New York City.

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The Audie Awards 2025

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Audie Awards®, the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2025

The American Library Association (ALA) has selected JAMES by Percival Everett as the winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and A WALK IN THE PARK: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko as the winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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The National Book Awards 2024

The winners of the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 20th at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. W. Paul Coates, the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Barbara Kingsolver, who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, DEMON COPPERHEAD, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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