2025 Kirkus Prize Awards

Updated October 8, 2025
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2025 Kirkus Prize Awards

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Flesh
Szalay, David
Paper Book
From Booker Prize-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is...
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 : A Novel
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...
King of Kings : The Iranian Revolution: a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Anderson, Scott.
From the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Lawrence in Arabia, a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism. On November 16th, 1977, at a state dinner in...
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
Instant National Bestseller | 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...
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