2025 Libby Book Awards Winners
Winners of the 2025 Libby Book Awards, “as chosen by… over 1,100 librarians and library staff from across North America,” have been announced, including winners of genre interest.
Book of the Year – Adult Fiction
- Runner Up: James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Best Science Fiction
- Winner: The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader)
- Runner Up: The Stardust Grail, Yume Kitasei (Flatiron)
Best Horror
- Winner: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Tor)
- Runner Up: I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
Best Fantasy
- Winner: The Spellshop, Sara Beth Durst (Bramble)
- Runner Up: The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
Best Romantasy
- Winner: House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
- Runner-Up: Faebound, Saara El-Arifi (Del Rey)
Book of the Year – Young Adult Fiction
- Winner: Heir, Sabaa Tahir (G.P. Putnam Books for Young Readers)
Debut Author of the Year
- Winner: The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader)
Best Historical Fiction
- Winner: James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
- Runner Up: The Seventh Veil of Salome, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Best Thriller
- Winner: One of Our Kind, Nicola Yoon (Knopf)
Best Memoir and Autobiography
- Winner: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Best Middle Grade Book
- Winner: Impossible Creatures, Katherine Rundell (Knopf Young Readers)
Best Picture Book
- Runner Up: We Are Definitely Human, X. Fang (Tundra)
The Libby Book Awards are hosted by library-lending apps Libby and OverDrive.
For the full list of categories and winners, see the Libby website.
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Awesome award titles
Why do you not have a nonfiction category? I’m not sure if I’m right that the myth of normal came out last year or not, but it will obviously be the book of the decade so I wouldn’t know why it wouldn’t be the book of its first year as well. I believe it should actually go in the must-read category. Proving doctor Spock was a quack is priceless.