This website is about book awards. This page is about 2025.
- A Collection of Lies by Connie Berry
- A Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian
- A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron
- Fondue or Die by Korina Moss
- The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves
- Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver
- The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal
- The Paris Mistress by Mally Becker
- The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks
- To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower
- A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams
- Ghosts of Waikiki by Jennifer K. Morita
- Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles by Elizabeth Crowens
- Threads of Deception by Elle Jaufret
- You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
Best Contemporary Novel
Best Historical Novel
Best First Novel
Nominations announced 2/3/25
Winners announced 4/27/25
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (ALA) 2025
- Martyer! by Kaveh Akbar
- Swift River by Essie Chambers
- Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler
- You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
- A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
- The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza
- James by Percial Everett
- Float Up, Sing Down by Laird Hunt
- Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
- Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Amanda Lima
- My Friends by Hisham Matar
- Shanghailanders by Juli Min
- Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
- Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
- There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes, Jr.
- Colored Television by Danzy Senna
- The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
- Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
- Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
- Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
- God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
- Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
- James by Percival Everett
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Winner (announced 1/26/25)
- James by Percival Everett
Longlist (announced 10/24/24)
Shortlist (announced 1/26/25)
Winner announced in July.
Shortlist announced in May.
Longlist announced July 26th.
Shortlist announced September 23rd.
Winner announced November 10th.
Bram Stoker Awards 2024 (awarded in 2025)
"The HWA is the premier writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with more than 1,800 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987"
- House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
- I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
- American Rapture by CJ Leede
- Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
- Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
- Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
- Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo
- Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
- House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
- I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
- Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
- Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Superior Achievement in a Novel Longlist (announced 1/22/25)
Superior Achievement in a Novel Shortlist (announced 2/23/25)
Winners announced June 17th, 2025
Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award)
Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)
Shortlist announced in August 2025
Winners announced in October 2025
- The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
- Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins
- My Favorite Scar by Nicolás Ferraro
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell
- Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton
- Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda
- The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
- A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis
- The President's Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins
- Holy City by Henry Wise
- The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle
- The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass
- Shell Games by Bonnie Kistler
- A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado
- The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
Shortlist (announced 1/22/25)
Best Novel
Best First Novel by an American Author
Best Paperback Original
Winners announced 5/1/25