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 AND KIRKUS PRIZE SHORTLIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Financial Times, The Economist, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Oprah Daily, Chicago Public Library...
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
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler)...
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.
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...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times...
King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
Anderson, Scott
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER * 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...
Baldwin : a love story
Boggs, Nicholas
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025 Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie.
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind....
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, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great...
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
Paper Book
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 her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped...
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. A...
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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