2025 National Book Awards

Updated December 11, 2025
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2025 National Book Awards

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The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
Alameddine, Rabih
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination."--NPR From the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son...
Palaver
Washington, Bryan.
Paper Book
A modern literary romcom and a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful...
A Guardian and a Thief: The sensational new novel from the author of A Burning
Majumdar, Megha.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A GUARDIAN 'BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026' SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK TIME MUST-READ BOOK WINNER OF...
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...
Motherland: A Feminist History Of Modern Russia, From Revolution To Autocracy
Ioffe, Julia.
Paper Book
'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it' NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot Award...
On the calculation of volume. 1
Balle, Solvej
Paper Book
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off...
We Are Green And Trembling
Camara, Gabriela Cabezon.
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026** **Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature** A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America's best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso 'Playful and...
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