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Readers' Advisory: Book Awards

Pulitzer

The 2025 Pulitzer Award

Fiction    Drama
James: A Novel [Book] Broadway Play Home - Purpose
History (2 Winners) Biography
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War: Fields-Black, Edda L.: 9780197552797: Amazon.com: Books And Native Nations: A Millennium in North America [Book] Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts: 9781984855220 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Memoir or Autobiography    Poetry

Feeding Ghosts

 

General Non-Fiction

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

New and Selected Poems [Book]

 

Music

Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra | Asia Society

           

National Book Award

National Book Award 2024

Fiction

James: A Novel

Non-Fiction

Soldiers and Kings by Jason De León: 9780593298589 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Young People's Literature

Kareem Between               

Poetry

Something About Living: National Book Award Winner (Akron Series in Poetry): Khalaf Tuffaha, Lena: 9781629222738: Amazon.com: Books

 Translated Literature

   Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel [Book]

    

National Book Critic's Circle Award

National Book Critic's 2024 Circle Award

Fiction

                        

Non-Fiction

Biography

Poetry

 

Autobiography

Criticism

Andrew Carnegie 2025 Award Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction

Fiction Nonfiction
James by Percival Everett: 9780385550369 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon