2025 National Book Awards

Updated December 11, 2025
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2025 National Book Awards

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Palaver : a novel
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction "A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." --The New York...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children...
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates...
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates...
When it all burns : fighting fire in a transformed world
Thomas, Jordan (Anthropologist)
Paper Book
2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL WINNER FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUS "Exceptional. . . . When It All Burns is one of those books that...
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