2025 Awards

for books published in 2024

Fiction Winner

To & Fro by Leah Hagar Cohen

Notable Books

The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

Non-Fiction Winner

American Bloods by John Kaag

Notable Books

Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska

Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff

Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra

Poetry Winner

Glitter Road by John January Gill O’Neil

Notable Books

Good Monster by Diannely Antigua

The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen

Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer

Children’s Winner

We Sing from the Heart by Mia Wenjen

Notable Books

Free to Learn by Cynthia Levinson

Pigs Dig A Road by Carrie Finison

With a big thank you to Whitelam Books in Reading, MA