2025 Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Favorites (Awarded by Barnes and Noble)

Awards List

Fiction

We Do Not Part
(*)
Han Kang

The Antidote
(*)
Karen Russell

Broken Country
(*)
Clare Leslie Hall

Dream Count
(*)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wild Dark Shore
(*)
Charlotte McConaghy

Audition
(*)
Katie Kitamura

Flesh
(*)
David Szalay

The Pretender
(*)
Jo Harkin

The Artist and the Feast
(*)
Lucy Steeds

The Correspondent
(*)
Virginia Evans

The Director
(*)
Daniel Kehlmann

The Emperor of Gladness
(*)
Ocean Vuong

My Friends
(*)
Fredrik Backman

Atmosphere: A Love Story
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Flashlight
(*)
Susan Choi

Parallel Lines
(*)
Edward St. Aubyn

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
(*)
Katie Yee

Buckeye
(*)
Patrick Ryan

Circle of Days
(*)
Ken Follett

Kaplan's Plot
(*)
Jason Diamond

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(*)
Kiran Desai

Mona's Eyes
(*)
Thomas Schlesser

We Love You, Bunny
(*)
Mona Awad

We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
(*)
Syou Ishida

What We Can Know
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Wilderness
(*)
Angela Flournoy

A Guardian and a Thief
(*)
Megha Majumdar

Heart the Lover
(*)
Lily King

The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
(*)
Harper Lee

Shadow Ticket
(*)
Thomas Pynchon

Twice
(*)
Mitch Albom

I, Medusa
(*)
Ayana Gray

Wreck
(*)
Catherine Newman

Horror

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
(*)
Clay McLeod Chapman

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Hungerstone
(*)
Kat Dunn

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Unworthy
(*)
Agustina Bazterrica

When the Wolf Comes Home
(*)
Nat Cassidy

The Starving Saints
(*)
Caitlin Starling

Never Flinch
(*)
Stephen King

The Possession of Alba Diaz
(*)
Isabel Canas

Coffin Moon
(*)
Keith Rosson

Hot Wax
(*)
M.L. Rio

Play Nice
(*)
Rachel Harrison

You Weren't Meant to Be Human
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

King Sorrow
(*)
Joe Hill

What Stalks the Deep
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Mysteries & Thrillers

Strange Pictures
(*)
Uketsu

Victorian Psycho
(*)
Virginia Feito

Murder by Cheesecake
(*)
Rachel Ekstrom Courage

How to Seal Your Own Fate
(*)
Kristen Perrin

The Missing Half
(*)
Ashley Flowers

Murder Takes a Vacation
(*)
Laura Lippman

Don't Let Him In
(*)
Lisa Jewell

King of Ashes
(*)
S.A. Cosby

Not Quite Dead Yet
(*)
Holly Jackson

The Man Who Died Seven Times
(*)
YASUHIKO NISHIZAWA

Clown Town
(*)
Mick Herron

Hot Wax
(*)
M.L. Rio

The Impossible Fortune
(*)
Richard Osman

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe
(*)
Seishi Yokomizo

The Secret of Secrets
(*)
Dan Brown

Gone Before Goodbye
(*)
Reese Witherspoon

Guilty by Definition
(*)
Susie Dent

The Intruder
(*)
Freida McFadden

The Persian
(*)
David McCloskey

Picket Line
(*)
Elmore Leonard

The Black Wolf
(*)
Louise Penny

The Widow
(*)
John Grisham

The Living and the Dead
(*)
Christoffer Carlsson

Picture Books

The Littlest Yak
(*)
Lu Fraser

Will the Pigeon Graduate?
(*)
Mo Willems

Don't Trust Fish!
(*)
Neil Sharpson

Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear
(*)
Marissa Valdez

Elvis & Romeo
(*)
David Soman; Jacky Davis

The Day the Crayons Made Friends
(*)
Drew Daywalt

Hansel and Gretel
(*)
Maurice Sendak

Snow Kid
(*)
Jessie Sima

The Trouble with Giraffes
(*)
Lisa Mantchev

The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
(*)
Devin Elle Kurtz

Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo
(*)
Bess Kalb

Night Creatures: Firefly
(*)
Robert Macfarlane

The Humble Pie
(*)
Jory John

Romance Novels

Flirting Lessons
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

Great Big Beautiful Life
(*)
Emily Henry

Say You'll Remember Me
(*)
Abby Jimenez

Can't Get Enough
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

King of Envy
(*)
Ana Huang

Problematic Summer Romance
(*)
Ali Hazelwood

Caught Up
(*)
Navessa Allen

Tourist Season
(*)
Brynne Weaver

Holiday Ever After
(*)
Hannah Grace

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal
(*)
Meghan Quinn

Overdue
(*)
Stephanie Perkins

The Seven Rings
(*)
Nora Roberts

Sweet Venom
(*)
Rina Kent

Science Fiction & Fantasy

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
(*)
Dennis E. Taylor

Onyx Storm
(*)
Rebecca Yarros

Water Moon
(*)
Samantha Sotto Yambao

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

The Knight and the Moth
(*)
Rachel Gillig

Silver Elite
(*)
Dani Francis

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

Alchemised
(*)
SenLinYu

Katabasis
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Thief of Night
(*)
Holly Black

Alchemy of Secrets
(*)
Stephanie Garber

Brimstone
(*)
Callie Hart

The Strength of the Few
(*)
James Islington

There Is No Antimemetics Division
(*)
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Young Adult Books

Wings of Starlight
(*)
Allison Saft

Oathbound
(*)
Tracy Deonn

Sunrise on the Reaping
(*)
Suzanne Collins

Fearless
(*)
Lauren Roberts

I Am Not Jessica Chen
(*)
Ann Liang

A Forgery of Fate
(*)
Elizabeth Lim

The Demon and the Light
(*)
Axie Oh

Fake Skating
(*)
Lynn Painter

Grim and Oro
(*)
Alex Aster

The Rose Field
(*)
Philip Pullman

You've Found Oliver
(*)
Dustin Thao

Eternal Ruin
(*)
Tigest Girma

Hazelthorn
(*)
C.G. Drews

Seven Deadly Thorns
(*)
Amber Hamilton

An Archive of Romance
(*)
Ava Reid

Young Reader's Books

Howl's Moving Castle
(*)
Diana Wynne Jones

Vanya and the Wild Hunt
(*)
Sangu Mandanna

The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon
(*)
Grace Lin

I Am Rebel
(*)
Ross Montgomery

J vs. K
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Growing Home
(*)
Beth Ferry

The Court of the Dead
(*)
Rick Riordan

Pocket Bear
(*)
Katherine Applegate

The Poisoned King
(*)
Katherine Rundell

Scarlet Morning
(*)
N.D. Stevenson

Partypooper
(*)
Jeff Kinney

Spy School Blackout
(*)
Stuart Gibbs

War Games
(*)
Alan M. Gratz

Big Jim Believes
(*)
Dav Pilkey

The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge
(*)
Mac Barnett

Mysteries & Thriller

With a Vengeance
(*)
Riley Sager

Award Categories

Christian Children's Books

Fantasy

Fiction

Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels & Comics

Horror

Literary Fiction

Manga

Mysteries & Thrillers

Picture Books

Romance Novels

Science Fiction

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Young Adult Books

Young Adult SF & Fantasy

Young Reader Graphic Novels

Young Reader's Books

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