The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Nominees for 2025!

The Brooklyn Public Library Book has announced the nominees for the BPL Book Prize and we will be looking at all the nominees!

Every year, the Brooklyn Public Library awards the best fiction and nonfiction books. The winners are selected by librarians and the library staff.

Every book nominated tries to capture the “the spirit of Brooklyn,” one of the most diverse communities in the United States. And with that out of the way, you can see the full list below!

Fiction Longlist

• Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung (Berkley)
• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Catapult)
• Wait by Gabriella Burnham (One World)
• The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera (Vintage)
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
• Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood (The Dial Press)
• Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson (Saga Press)
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (William Morrow)
• Hum by Helen Phillips (Marysue Rucci Books)
• In Universes by Emet North (Harper)

Fiction Shortlist

• The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera (Vintage)
• Hum by Helen Phillips (Marysue Rucci Books)
• In Universes by Emet North (Harper)

NonFiction Longlist

• Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis by Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis (Haymarket Books)
• Belly Full: Exploring Caribbean Cuisine through 11 Fundamental Ingredients and Over 100 Recipes by Lesley Enston (Ten Speed Press)
• Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
• Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough by Prithi Kanakamedala (Washington Mews Books / NYU Press)
• Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley (Atria / One Signal Publishers)
• First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream by Jessica Hoppe (Flatiron Books)
• Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha (Knopf)
• The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton (Ecco)
• Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver (Atria / One Signal Publishers)
• Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

NonFiction Shortlist

• Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha (Knopf)
• Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver (Atria / One Signal Publishers)
• Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

These are the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize nominees for 2025.We have the longest and shortlist for both the fiction and nonfiction lists. The winners will be announced on September 21st. Last year’s winner was Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar for fiction and Black folk : the roots of the Black working class by Blair Murphy Kelley for nonfiction.

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