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Finalists announced here: www.libbylife.com/2025-01-29-announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2025-libby-book-awards
Winners announced here: www.libbylife.com/2025-02-25-the-winners-of-the-2025-libby-book-awards
Winner for Book of the Year — Adult Fiction
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
5 stars
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly …
Winner for Book of the Year — Adult Nonfiction
Heir by Sabaa Tahir (Heir Duology, #1)
Prepare for a ruthless and romantic new fantasy from #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning author …
Winner for Book of the Year — Young Adult Fiction
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
5 stars
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly …
Winner for Audiobook of the Year
Winner for Best Book Club Book
When We Are Seen by Denise Young
For her work as a co-creator of the Apple Store cultural experience, Denise Young has been deemed by leadership experts …
Winner for Best Business Book
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.
In her …
Winner for Best Comic/Graphic Novel
Anything's Pastable by Dan Pashman
The innovative James Beard Award–winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes with his invention of the …
Winner for Best Cookbook
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
4 stars
Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and …
Winner for Best Fantasy
James: A Novel by Percival Everett (duplicate)
5 stars
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from …
Winner for Best Historical Fiction
Winner for Best Horror
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a …
Winner for Best Memoir & Autobiography
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie
The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.
It’s the …
Winner for Best Middle Grade Book
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
3 stars
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve …
Winner for Best Mystery
