2025 Kirkus Prize Awards

Updated October 8, 2025
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2025 Kirkus Prize Awards

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The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family,...
The wilderness
Flournoy, Angela.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
Flesh
Szalay, David.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course...
Isola
Goodman, Allegra.
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a...
Isola
Goodman, Allegra.
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning--longlisted for the National Book Award--is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change...
King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
Anderson, Scott
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE * From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work...
Baldwin : a love story
Boggs, Nicholas
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie.
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 "This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind. Elmhirst's retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won't be...
America, Am?ica : a new history of the New World
Grandin, Greg
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * A finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize and the 2025 Cundill History Prize "An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez." --Irish...
Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people
Perry, Imani
Paper Book
A "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, "the most important interpreter of Black life in our time" (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.) Throughout...
Mother Mary comes to me
Roy, Arundhati
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's...
Death in the jungle
Fleming, Candace.
Paper Book
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history. ...
John the skeleton
Laan, Triinu
Paper Book
2025 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Winner 2025 Kirkus Prize Finalist 2025 USBBY Outstanding International Book 2022 Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition winner 2021 The White Ravens catalog 2021 Tartu Prize for...
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