Posted on December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Today's news of literary awards and honors is a mix of the formal and informal.
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The seven inaugural winners of the Unpublished Novel Award — which grants each writer $10,000 to support their book — have been announced (Literary Hub).
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The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes for comic fiction have been announced, with the late Marina Lewycka being chosen as the winner-of-winners and Rosanna Pike receiving the regular prize for A Little Trickerie (The Guardian).
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The editors at The New York Times Book Review announced their ten best books of 2025.
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The Guardian is also releasing its best-of-2025 lists; so far we have history/politics, graphic novels, crime/thrillers, children's books, and translated fiction.
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Goodreads has released the most-read books of its 2025 reading challenge, both in an overall format and broken down by genre (Book Riot).
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