2025 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2025.

Anniversaries

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Aria Aber Good Girl January 14 [1]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream Count March 4 [2]
Amal El-Mohtar The River Has Roots [3]
David Szalay Flesh March 11 [4]
Suzanne Collins Sunrise on the Reaping March 18 [5]
Abdulrazak Gurnah Theft [6]
Ben Okri Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted [7]
John Scalzi When the Moon Hits Your Eye March 25 [8]
Lindsey Davis There Will Be Bodies April 3 [9]
Katie Kitamura Audition April 8 [10]
Virginia Evans The Correspondent April 29 [11]
Isabel Allende My Name Is Emilia del Valle May 6 [12]
Ocean Vuong The Emperor of Gladness May 13 [13]
Jessie Elland The Ladie Upstairs May 22 [14]
Stephen King Never Flinch May 27 [15]
Katie Yee Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar July 22 [16]
Ian McEwan What We Can Know September 18 [17]
Lily King Heart the Lover October 7 [18]
Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories November 4 [19]

Children and young adults

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Stephen King illus. by Maurice Sendak Hansel and Gretel February 2 [20]
Jacqueline Wilson, illus. by Rachael Dean The Seaside Sleepover March 27 [21]
Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro The Court of the Dead September 23 [22]
ND Stevenson Scarlet Morning September 23 [23]
Charlie Mackesy Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm October 14 [24]
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper October 21 [25]

Poetry

New poetry, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Robbie Coburn The Foal in the Wire May 28

Translations

Notable translations first published in English:

New translations, sorted by date of publication
Author Translator(s) Title Date of pub. Ref.
Chaim Grade Rose Waldman Sons and Daughters March 25 [26][27]
Solvej Balle Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell On the Calculation of Volume vol. III November 18 [28]

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Michael Wolff All or Nothing February 25 [29]
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Abundance March 18 [30]
Andrea Long Chu Authority: Essays April 8 [31]
Tim Bouverie Allies at War April 17 [32]
David Zweig An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions April 22 [33]
Monica Feria Tinta A Barrister for the Earth April 24 [34]
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain [35]
Patrick McGee Apple in China May 13 [36]
Eli Erlick Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950 May 27 [37]
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America July 8 [38]
Adam Aleksic Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language July 15 [39]
Jennifer Dasal The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris [40]
Dan Wang Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future August 26 [41]
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies September 16 [42]
Randi Weingarten Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy September 16 [43]
Lyse Doucet The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan September 18 [44]
Philippe Sands 38 Londres Street October 7 [45]

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Pico Iyer Aflame: Learning from Silence January 14 [33]
Ibrahim Babangida A Journey in Service February 20 [46]
Helen Garner How to end a story: collected diaries, 1978–1998 March 13 [47]
Jacinda Ardern A Different Kind of Power June 3 [33]
Nicholas Boggs Baldwin: A Love Story August 19 [35]
Eric Schmitt Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court [48]
Miriam Toews A Truce That Is Not Peace August 26 [49]
Joe Manchin Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense September 16 [50]
Kamala Harris 107 Days September 23 [51]
John Kennedy How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will October 7 [52]
Eric Trump Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation October 14 [53]
Margaret Atwood Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts November 4 [54]
Patti Smith Bread of Angels: A Memoir [35]
John Fetterman Unfettered November 11 [55]
Dick Van Dyke 100 Rules for Living to 100 November 18 [56]
Olivia Nuzzi American Canto December 2 [57]

Deaths

2025 deaths, sorted by date of death
Individual Background Date of death Age Cause of death Ref.
David Lodge British author and critic (Small World: An Academic Romance,
Changing Places, The Picturegoers)
January 1 89 [58]
Joseph Monninger American novelist and academic (The Letters) 71 lung cancer. [59]
Tidiane Diakité Malian-born French historian and academic January 2 80 [60]
Noreen Riols British novelist and essayist 98 [61]
Howard Buten American author and clown January 3 74 [62]
Andrew Pyper Canadian novelist 56 Cancer [63]
Peter Schaap Dutch singer-songwriter and author 78 [64]
José Claer Canadian novelist and poet January 4 61 [65]
Richard Foreman American playwright (Rhoda in Potatoland) 87 pneumonia [66]
Na D'Souza Indian novelist and short story writer January 5 87 [67]
Lee Hoesung Japanese-South Korean novelist 89 [68]
František Šmahel Czech historian and academic 90 [69]
Henry Beissel Canadian poet, playwright and editor January 9 95 [70]
Mukhtar Magauin Kazakh writer, translator and publicist 84 [71]
Stephan Krasovitsky Russian poet, translator, and priest January 10 89 [72]
Keith Dewhurst English playwright and scriptwriter January 11 93 [73]
Paul Benacerraf French-American philosopher January 13 94 [74]
André Sollie Belgian author and illustrator 77 [75]
Kjell Gjerseth Norwegian novelist and journalist January 14 78 [76]
Li Kuei-hsien Taiwanese poet and translator January 15 87 [77]
Geneviève Callerot French novelist and resistance fighter January 16 108 [78]
Howard Andrew Jones American author and editor 56 brain cancer [79]
Ridley Wills II American author and historian 90 [80]
Jules Feiffer American cartoonist, playwright (Knock Knock), and
screenwriter (Popeye, Munro), Pulitzer Prize winner (1986)
January 17 95 heart failure [81]
Kulanthai Shanmugalingam Sri Lankan playwright 93 [82]
Don Cupitt English philosopher January 18 90 [83]
Jalal Matini Iranian writer and scholar January 19 96 [84]
Michael Longley Northern Irish poet (The Weather in Japan) January 22 85 complications from surgery [85]
Tabish Mehdi Indian poet and literary critic 73 [86]
Esther Jansma Dutch writer and poet January 23 66 cancer [87]
Joseph A. Amato American historian and writer January 24 86 [88]
Suzanne Massie American historian and academic January 26 94 [89]
Maung Khin Min Burmese writer and linguist January 27 83 [90]
Marina Colasanti Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist January 28 87 [91]
Mahmoud Saeed Iraqi-born American novelist and short story writer 86 [92]
Tom Robbins American novelist February 9 92 [93]
Antonine Maillet Canadian novelist and playwright February 17 95 [94]
Joseph Wambaugh American novelist February 28 88 esophageal cancer [95]
Alex Wheatle British novelist March 16 62 prostate cancer [96]
Denise Boucher Canadian poet and playwright March 18 89 [97]
Alastair Niven British literary scholar and author March 26 81 [98]
Mario Vargas Llosa Peruvian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (2010) April 13 89 [99]
Judith Copithorne Canadian poet and playwright May 15 85 [100]
Edmund White American novelist June 3 85 [101]
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu Canadian playwright June 9 79 [102]
Denys Chabot Canadian novelist and journalist June 24 80 [103]
Anne Walmsley British editor, scholar, critic and author July 12 93 [104]

Awards

2025 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award Category Author Title Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award Valérie Bah Subterrane [105]
Booker Prize David Szalay Flesh [106]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Matthew Purvis The Pornographic Delicatessen: Midcentury Montréal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces [107]
British Book Awards Overall Book of the Year Alexei Navalny Patriot [108]
Author of the Year Percival Everett [108]
Illustrator of the Year Rob Biddulph [108]
Fiction Percival Everett James [108]
Crime & Thriller Abir Mukherjee Hunted [108]
Debut Fiction Asako Yuzuki Butter [108]
Non-Fiction: Narrative Alexei Navalny Patriot [108]
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated Stanley Tucci What I Ate in One Year [108]
Discover Len Pennie poyums [108]
Pageturner Saara El-Arifi Faebound [108]
Children's Fiction Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess [108]
Children's Illustrated Julia Donaldson, illus. by Axel Scheffler Jonty Gentoo: The Adventures of a Penguin [108]
Children's Non-Fiction Isabella Tree, illus. by Angela Harding Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back [108]
Audiobook Fiction Jamie Smart, narrated by

Ciaran Saward

Bunny vs. Monkey [108]
Marian Keyes My Favourite Mistake [108]
Audiobook Non-Fiction Patric Gagne Sociopath [108]
Freedom to Publish Margaret Atwood [108]
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Canisia Lubrin Code Noir [109]
Dublin Literary Award Michael Crummey The Adversary [110]
Dylan Thomas Prize Yasmin Zaher The Coin [111]
Edgar Awards Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Anna Stolley Persky "The Jews on Elm Street" [112]
Lilian Jackson Braun Award Katarina Bivald The Murders in Great Diddling [112]
G. P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Jacqueline Winspear The Comfort of Ghosts [112]
Grand Master Award Laura Lippman [112]
John Sandford [112]
Raven Award Face in a Book Bookstore [112]
Ellery Queen Award Peter Wolverton St. Martin’s Press [112]
Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Sulari Gentill The Mystery Writer [112]
Best Novel Charlotte Vassell The In Crowd [112]
Best First Novel by an American Author Henry Wise Holy City [112]
Best Paperback Original Kimberly Belle The Paris Widow [112]
Best Fact Crime Steven Johnson The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective [112]
Best Critical/Biographical Nathan Ashman James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction [112]
Best Short Story Erika Krouse "Eat My Moose" [112]
Best Juvenile Margaret Peterson Haddix Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key [112]
Best Young Adult Natalie D. Richards 49 Miles Alone [112]
Edna Staebler Award Aaron Williams The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era [113]
Giller Prize Souvankham Thammavongsa Pick a Colour [114]
Gotham Book Prize Nicole Gelinas Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car [115]
Ian Frazier Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
Governor General's Awards English Fiction Kyle Edwards Small Ceremonies [116]
English Non-Fiction Claire Cameron How to Survive a Bear Attack
English Poetry Karen Solie Wellwater
English Drama Tara Beagan Rise, Red River
English Children's Literature Heather Smith Tig
English Children's Illustration Tonya Simpson, Delreé Dumont This Land Is a Lullaby
French to English Translation Jessica Moore Uiesh/Somewhere
French Fiction Katia Belkhodja Les déterrées [117]
French Non-Fiction Ouanessa Younsi Soigner, écrire
French Poetry Paul Chanel Malenfant Au passage du fleuve
French Drama Éric Noël Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés
French Children's literature Laurie Léveillé Coup bas
French Children's illustration Stéphane Laporte, Jacques Goldstyn Un cadeau de Noël en novembre
English to French translation Sylvie Bérard, Suzanne Grenier Les soeurs de la Muée
International Booker Prize Banu Mushtaq, trans. by Deepa Bhasthi Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (ಎದೆಯ ಹಣತೆ) [118]
League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award Marc Perez Dayo [119]
Pat Lowther Award Bren Simmers The Work
Raymond Souster Award Chimwemwe Undi Scientific Marvel
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Justin Haynes Ibis: A Novel [120]
Biography Ekow Eshun The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them [120]
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Adam Ross Playworld: A Novel [120]
Current Interest Brian Goldstone There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America [120]
Fiction Bryan Washington Palaver: A Novel [120]
Graphic Novel/Comics Jaime Hernandez Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection [121]
History Bench Ansfield Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City [120]
Mystery/Thriller Megan Abbott El Dorado Drive [120]
Poetry Allison Benis White A Magnificent Loneliness [120]
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction Silvia Park Luminous [120]
Science and Technology Karen Hao Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI [120]
Young Adult Literature Trung Le Nguyen Angelica and the Bear Prince [120]
Innovator's Award We Need Diverse Books [120]
Robert Kirsch Award Amy Tan [120]
National Book Awards Fiction Rabih Alameddine The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) [122]
Nonfiction Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Poetry Patricia Smith The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Translated Literature Gabriela Cabezón Cámara We Are Green and Trembling
Young People's Literature Daniel Nayeri The Teacher of Nomad Land
National Book Critics Circle Award Biography Alex Green A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled [123][124]
Criticism Quinn Slobodian Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right [123][124]
Fiction Han Kang with e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (trans.) We Do Not Part [123][124]
Memoir and Autobiography Arundhati Roy Mother Mary Comes to Me [123][124]
Nonfiction Karen Hao Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI [123][124]
Poetry Kevin Young Night Watch [123][124]
Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize Neige Sinno, trans. by Natasha Lehrer Sad Tiger [123][124]
John Leonard Prize Nicholas Boggs Baldwin: A Love Story [123][124]
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Rhoda Feng [125]
Pulitzer Prize Biography Jason Roberts Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life [126]
Drama Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Purpose
Fiction Percival Everett James [126]
General Nonfiction Benjamin Nathans To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement [126]
History Kathleen DuVal Native Nations: A Millennium in North America [126]
Edda L. Fields-Black Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War [126]
Memoir or Autobiography Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir [126]
Poetry Marie Howe New and Selected Poems [126]
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Natalie Sue I Hope This Finds You Well [127]
Trillium Book Award English Prose Maurice Vellekoop I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together [128]
English Poetry Jake Byrne DADDY
French Prose Aristote Kavungu Céline au Congo
French Poetry or Children's Mireille Messier Le bonnet magique
Writers' Trust of Canada Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Maria Reva Endling [129]
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Theory of Water
Dayne Ogilvie Prize Roza Nozari All the Parts We Exile
Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize Bren Simmers
Matt Cohen Award Sheree Fitch
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Julie Flett
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Kim Thúy
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Raymond B. Blake Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity [130]
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Vince Beiser Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future [131]
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry Dora Prieto "Loose Threads" [132]
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction Jess Goldman "Tombstone of a Tsaddik"
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Creative Non-fiction Phillip Dwight Morgan "White Trucks and Mergansers"

Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions expected to premiere/broadcast during 2025:

Title The book on which the movie/TV series is based Type GenrePremiere dateDistribution company / original broadcasting network
"Dog Man" "Dog Man" by Dav Pilkey Movie Superhero film, comedy January 15, 2025 Universal Pictures
"The Monkey" "The Monkey" by Stephen King Movie Comedy, horror February 21, 2025 Neon
"Mickey 17" "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton Movie Science fiction March 7, 2025 Warner Bros.
"Snow White" "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm Movie Musical, Fantasy March 21, 2025 Walt Disney
"The Bad Guys 2" "The Bad Guys" by Aaron Blabey Movie Animation, Heist film, comedy August 1, 2025 Universal Pictures
"Freakier Friday" "Freaky Friday" by Mary Rodgers Movie Comic fantasy August 8, 2025 Walt Disney
"Fear Street: Prom Queen" "The Prom Queen" by R. L. Stine Movie Horror TBD Netflix
"The Running Man" "The Running Man" by Stephen King Movie Science fiction, action November 7, 2025 Paramount Pictures
The Dead Girls Las muertas by Jorge Ibargüengoitia Limited TV series Drama September 2025 Netflix

See also

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