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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 Mystery Books of 2025

Welcome to our running list of the best mystery books of 2025, which we’ll be updating throughout the year. First up is the shortlist of the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, the most prestigious U.S. mystery book prize. Bear in mind that these are books from the previous year (rather than the very latest) with the advantage that they’re already likely to be in paperback or will be soon.