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Kirkus Prize Finalists 2025

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Since 2014, the Kirkus Prize has been given annually by Kirkus Reviews to books of exceptional merit. The finalists were announced on August 27, and the winners will be announced during a ceremony at the TriBeca Rooftop in New York on October 8. It will also be livestreamed on Kirkus’s YouTube channel at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern). Here are some of the finalists for 2025 in the TBP collection.

For more information check out the Kirkus Prize website.

Fiction

ISOLA by Allegra Goodman (DB 127226, LB 0002549)
FLESH by David Szalay (DB 130331)

Nonfiction

MARRIAGE AT SEA: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, OBSESSION, AND SHIPWRECK by Sophie Elmhirst (DB 131217 IN PROCESS)
KING OF KINGS: THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: A STORY OF HUBRIS, DELUSION AND CATASTROPHIC MISCALCULATION by Scott Anderson (IN PROCESS)
BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by Nicholas Boggs (IN PROCESS)
AMERICAN, AMÉRICA: A NEW HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD by Greg Grandin (DB 129520)
BLACK IN BLUES: HOW A COLOR TELLS THE STORY OF MY PEOPLE by Imani Perry (DB 130763)

Teen and Young Adult

DEATH IN THE JUNGLE by Candace Fleming (DB 129360)

Kirkus Prize Finalists 2024

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Since 2014, the Kirkus Prize has been given annually by Kirkus Reviews to books of exceptional merit. The finalists were announced on August 28, and the winners were announced via livestream on the Kirkus Reviews YouTube page on Wednesday, October 16. Here are some of the finalists for 2024 that are in the TBP collection.

For more information check out the Kirkus Prize website.

Fiction

JAMES by Percival Everett (DB 120063, BR 25513 IN PROCESS)
MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich (IN PROCESS)
PLAYGROUND by Richard Powers (IN PROCESS)
PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch (DB 119629)

Nonfiction

ACHILLES TRAP: SADDAM HUSSEIN, THE C.I.A., AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICA’S INVASION OF IRAQ by Steve Coll (DB 119811)
CHALLENGER: A TRUE STORY OF HEROISM AND DISASTER ON THE EDGE OF SPACE by Adam Higginbotham (DB 122096)
GARDEN AGAINST TIME: IN SEARCH OF A COMMON PARADISE by Olivia Laing (DB 123842 IN PROCESS)

Young Adult

BRIGHT RED FRUIT by Safia Elhillo (DB 119614)
GATHER by Kenneth Cadow (DB 116996, BR 25292 IN PROCESS)

Middle Grade

SHARK TEETH by Sherri Winston (DB 123474)
WE WHO PRODUCE PEARLS by Joanna Ho (DB 123617 IN PROCESS)

Younger Readers

THERE WAS A PARTY FOR LANGSTON by Jason Reynolds (DB 119850, BR IN PROCESS)