Literary honors: November 20, 2025

Today's news of literary awards and honors is all informal — but certainly worth celebrating.

• A family’s forgotten copy of the comic Superman No. 1, from 1939, sold at auction for a record $9.12 million (The New York Times). 

• Electric Literature shared the five best short-story collections of the year.

• The New York Public Library picked its favorite books for adults from this year, and you can sort the list by genre.

• The Washington Post also chose ten books as the best of the year.