2025 Amazon Editors' Picks (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

Children's Books

Girls on the Rise
(*)
Amanda Gorman

Seven Little Ducklings
(*)
Annette LeBlanc Cate

The Mysterious New Girl
(*)
Kay Healy

The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day
(*)
Raul the Third

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest
(*)
Aubrey Hartman

The Cartoonists Club
(*)
Raina Telgemeier

Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
(*)
Alice Schertle

Mistaco
(*)
Eliza Kinkz

Dragonborn
(*)
Struan Murray

Millie Fleur Saves the Night
(*)
Christy Mandin

No More Chairs
(*)
Dan Gill

The Teacher of Nomad Land
(*)
Daniel Nayeri

The Invisible Parade
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

The Pigeon WON'T Count to 10!
(*)
Mo Willems

Pocket Bear
(*)
Katherine Applegate

The School for Thieves
(*)
Peter Burns

Skandar and the Spirit War
(*)
A.F. Steadman

Coach
(*)
Jason Reynolds

A Snow Day for Amos McGee
(*)
Philip C. Stead

Big Jim Believes
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Literature & Fiction

Broken Country
(*)
Clare Leslie Hall

Wild Dark Shore
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

The Book of Guilt
(*)
Catherine Chidgey

The Correspondent
(*)
Virginia Evans

The Emperor of Gladness
(*)
Ocean Vuong

The Names
(*)
Florence Knapp

Atmosphere: A Love Story
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fulfillment
(*)
Lee Cole

The Girls Who Grew Big
(*)
Leila Mottley

Daikon
(*)
Samuel Hawley

Finding Grace
(*)
Loretta Rothschild

When the Cranes Fly South
(*)
Lisa Ridzen

Amity
(*)
Nathan Harris

Buckeye
(*)
Patrick Ryan

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(*)
Kiran Desai

To the Moon and Back
(*)
Eliana Ramage

Bad Bad Girl
(*)
Gish Jen

Heart the Lover
(*)
Lily King

The Wayfinder
(*)
Adam Johnson

Cursed Daughters
(*)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Mysteries & Thrillers

What a Way To Go
(*)
Bella Mackie

Dead Money
(*)
Jakob Kerr

The Oligarch's Daughter
(*)
Joseph Finder

Strangers in Time
(*)
David Baldacci

The Doorman
(*)
Chris Pavone

Fever Beach
(*)
Carl Hiaasen

King of Ashes
(*)
S.A. Cosby

Never Flinch
(*)
Stephen King

No Body, No Crime
(*)
Tess Sharpe

She Didn't See It Coming
(*)
Shari Lapena

We Are All Guilty Here
(*)
Karin Slaughter

Crooks
(*)
Lou Berney

The Hallmarked Man
(*)
Robert Galbraith

The Impossible Fortune
(*)
Richard Osman

The Secret of Secrets
(*)
Dan Brown

Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
(*)
K.J. Whittle

Gone Before Goodbye
(*)
Reese Witherspoon

Guilty by Definition
(*)
Susie Dent

The Intruder
(*)
Freida McFadden

The Black Wolf
(*)
Louise Penny

Romance

All the Missing Pieces
(*)
Catherine Cowles

Beg, Borrow, or Steal
(*)
Sarah Adams

Deep End
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

The Love Lyric
(*)
Kristina Forest

Promise Me Sunshine
(*)
Cara Bastone

Great Big Beautiful Life
(*)
Emily Henry

Can't Get Enough
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

The Love Haters
(*)
Katherine Center

Not Safe for Work
(*)
Nisha J. Tuli

One Golden Summer
(*)
Carley Fortune

It's a Love Story
(*)
Annabel Monaghan

Plus Size Player
(*)
Danielle Allen

If Not for My Baby
(*)
Kate Golden

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
(*)
Ashley Jordan

Ladies in Hating
(*)
Alexandra Vasti

Tourist Season
(*)
Brynne Weaver

Wild Card
(*)
Elsie Silver

The Defender
(*)
Ana Huang

Good Spirits
(*)
B.K. Borison

Mate
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Death of the Author
(*)
Nnedi Okorafor

Four Ruined Realms
(*)
Mai Corland

Murder by Memory
(*)
Olivia Waite

The River Has Roots
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar

When the Moon Hits Your Eye
(*)
John Scalzi

A Drop of Corruption
(*)
Robert Jackson Bennett

Notes from a Regicide
(*)
Isaac Fellman

Where the Axe Is Buried
(*)
Ray Nayler

The Incandescent
(*)
Emily Tesh

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
(*)
V.E. Schwab

The Poppy Fields
(*)
Nikki Erlick

The Magician of Tiger Castle
(*)
Louis Sachar

Alchemised
(*)
SenLinYu

Katabasis
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Sunward
(*)
William Alexander

Wild Reverence
(*)
Rebecca Ross

Red City
(*)
Marie Lu

Saltcrop
(*)
Yume Kitasei

The Everlasting
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Simultaneous
(*)
Eric Heisserer

Teen & Young Adult

Nightweaver
(*)
R.M. Gray

Sunrise on the Reaping
(*)
Suzanne Collins

When We Ride
(*)
Rex Ogle

Watch Me
(*)
Tahereh Mafi

Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
(*)
Megan Shepherd

Soulmatch
(*)
Rebecca Danzenbaker

Grave Flowers
(*)
Autumn Krause

Hekate: The Witch
(*)
Nikita Gill

I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir
(*)
Eugene Yelchin

Never, Ever After
(*)
Sue Lynn Tan

Sisters in the Wind
(*)
Angeline Boulley

And the River Drags Her Down
(*)
Jihyun Yun

Angelica and the Bear Prince: (A Graphic Novel)
(*)
Trung Le Nguyen

Balancing Act
(*)
Paula Chase

Bitten
(*)
Jordan Gray

The Crimson Throne
(*)
Sara Raasch

Fake Skating
(*)
Lynn Painter

The Rose Field
(*)
Philip Pullman

Coldwire
(*)
Chloe Gong

We Fell Apart
(*)
E. Lockhart

Romantasy

Onyx Storm
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Dire Bound
(*)
Sable Sorensen

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
(*)
Heather Fawcett

A Curse Carved in Bone
(*)
Danielle L. Jensen

The Knight and the Moth
(*)
Rachel Gillig

Shield of Sparrows
(*)
Devney Perry

Silver Elite
(*)
Dani Francis

When the Tides Held the Moon
(*)
Venessa Vida Kelley

Metal Slinger
(*)
Rachel Schneider

Arcana Academy
(*)
Elise Kova

A Forbidden Alchemy
(*)
Stacey McEwan

In the Veins of the Drowning
(*)
Kalie Cassidy

Rose in Chains
(*)
Julie Soto

The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
(*)
Carissa Broadbent

Warrior Princess Assassin
(*)
Brigid Kemmerer

Alchemised
(*)
SenLinYu

The Second Death of Locke
(*)
V.L. Bovalino

Wild Reverence
(*)
Rebecca Ross

Conform
(*)
Ariel Sullivan

The Ordeals
(*)
Rachel Greenlaw

Award Categories

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Mysteries & Thrillers

Mysteries & Thrillers: Series

Romance

Romantasy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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