2025
Book of the year
The Wake of Expectations by Javier de Lucia
Bio & Memoir Winner
Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher by Yellow Heights
Bio & Memoir Runner-Up
Oma & Me by Kerby Kunstler Caudill
Bio & Memoir Finalists
Children’s Book Winner
The Dachshund Dash by Michelle Medlock Adams
Children’s Book Runner-Up
The Big Aquarium Adventure by Nancy Roop
Children’s Book Finalists
General Fiction & NonFiction Winner
The Girl from Block Number 5 by Andrew Holloway
General fiction & Nonfiction Runner-Up
To Die is Different Than Supposed by Alissa Butterworth
General Fiction & Nonfiction Finalists
Historical & Adventure Winner
The House Filler by Sherry Wong
Historical & Adventure Runner-up
Fortune’s Price by Frank Nissen
Historical & Adventure Finalists
Horror & Suspense Winner
Letter 26 by Jacob Moon
Horror & Suspense
Runner-Up
The Harvest by Alex Hunter
HORROR & Suspense FINALISTS
Inspirational & Self-Help Winner
A Quest for Tears by Sean Dwyer
Inspirational & Self-Help Runner-UP
Sweet Sorrow by Sherry Cormier
inspirational & self-help finalists
Literary & Humor Winner
Run Away Home by Catherine Manett
Literary & Humor Runner-up
Purcell Station by Dale Glenn
LITERARY & HUMOR FINALISTS
middle grade & young adult winner
Spinner by Michael J. Bowler
Middle grade & Young adult Runner-up
Off Edge by Addison Brae
Middle Grade & Young Adult FINALISTS
Mystery & crime winner
Parrot Prose by DL Mitchell
Mystery & crime
Runner-up
The Girl in the Net by Gene Gross
MYSTERY & Crime FINALISTS
Romance & Women’s fiction Winner
More Than Luck Required by Connie Morgan
romance & Women’s fiction
runner-up
Grounded in January by Savannah Hendricks
Romance & Women’s Fiction FINALISTS
scifi & Fantasy winner
The Survivors by Angela White
scifi & Fantasy Runner-Up
The Shadow and the Scream by Rebecca L. Fearnley
Scifi & Fantasy FINALISTS
Thriller Winner
The Both of Us by Dan Lawton
Thriller runner-Up
The Rebirth by VP Evans
