2025’s biggest award-winning books
In a sea of outstanding new releases, which literary prize winners and finalists stood out this year? We've rounded up 2025's biggest, buzziest award contenders that deserve a spot on your TBR list. In a sea of outstanding new releases, which literary prize winners and finalists stood out this year? We've rounded up 2025's biggest, buzziest award contenders that deserve a spot on your TBR list. In a sea of outstanding new releases, which literary prize winners and finalists stood out this year? We've rounded up 2025's biggest, buzziest award contenders that deserve a spot on your TBR list. . This sensational novel from 'a writer with boundless imagination' (NPR) has the book world abuzz WHY IT'S READWORTHY: The winner of 2025's National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Outside the tiny apartment Raja shares with his elderly mother, Beirut is in turmoil — but Raja's search for love and hope is eternally opti...