• The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland
  • The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson
  • The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - Under the Eye of the Big Bird: A Novel by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda
  • The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes
  • The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
  • The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize - A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson

The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize, recommended by Anton Hur

Every year, judges for the International Booker Prize search for the best works of fiction translated into English over the previous twelve months. We asked Anton Hur, the novelist, translator and 2025 judge, to talk us through the six-book shortlist—including five novels and this year’s winner, the first short story collection ever to triumph.

  • 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners - Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
  • 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners - Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black
  • 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners - Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
  • 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners - To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
  • 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners - Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners

Earlier this month, the winners of the  2025 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by Columbia University in New York and founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), were announced. The prizes are awarded for a variety of categories across journalism, but also celebrate outstanding books. Below we’ve listed all the books that won in nonfiction book categories (James by Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).

  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - A Thousand Threads: A Memoir by Neneh Cherry
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter by Clare Mulley
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction - Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri

Now in its second year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction aims to highlight the very best new nonfiction books written by women. We asked Kavita Puri, the journalist and chair of this year’s judging panel, to talk us through the shortlist: from a gentle lockdown animal memoir to a thrilling true story of a WW2 secret agent.

  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - Good Girl: A Novel by Aria Aber
  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - All Fours: A Novel by Miranda July
  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Persians: A Novel by Sanam Mahloudji
  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Safekeep: A Novel by Yael van der Wouden
  • The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction - Fundamentally: A Novel by Nussaibah Younis

The Best Novels: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, recommended by Kit de Waal

The 2025 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction features a family saga about formerly rich Iranian refugees, a surprisingly funny tale of ISIS brides and a “weird” midlife crisis adventure in suburban California. We asked the bestselling novelist—chair of this year’s judging panel—to talk us through the six finalists.

  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels

Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of “distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” We’ve compiled a guide to the books that have won this prize since the turn of the millennium.

  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Noel Malcolm
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
  • The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize - Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Minoo Dinshaw

It’s a nonfiction book prize that values “style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality,” says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year’s judges. He introduces the six brilliant books that made the shortlist of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, from the history of post-World War II Italy to the disputes caused by the discovery of dinosaur fossils.  

  • The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist - King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  • The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist - The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich
  • The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist - Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
  • The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist - Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir
  • The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist - Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

The Best Biographies of 2024: The National Book Critics Circle Shortlist, recommended by Elizabeth Taylor

The boundaries between biography, history and news are very porous, says Elizabeth Taylor—chair of the judging panel for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Here, she introduces us to the five-strong shortlist of books, all of which, she notes, made headlines or “contributed to a substantial revision of history.”