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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of2025.

Anniversaries

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14 January –Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
18 January –Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
20 January –Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
20 January –Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
1 February –Alfred Grosser was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
4 February –Russell Hoban was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
6 February –Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
22 February –Edward Gorey was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
24 February –Etel Adnan was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
10 March –Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
12 March –Harry Harrison was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
21 March –Peter Brook was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
25 March –Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
11 May –Rubem Fonseca was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
27 May –Jean-Paul Aron was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
27 May –Tony Hillerman was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
6 June –Thomas Mann was born in 1875 (150th Anniversary).
10 June –James Salter was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
30 June –Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
19 July –Jean-Pierre Faye was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
20 July –Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
26 July –Ana María Matute was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
1 August –Ernst Jandl was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
18 August –Brian Aldiss was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
25 August –Thea Astley was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
27 August –Saiichi Maruya was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
6 September –Andrea Camilleri was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
15 September –Giuseppe Fava was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
19 September –Tatsuhiro Ōshiro was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
24 September –Kunio Tsuji was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
3 October –Gore Vidal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
11 October –Elmore Leonard was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
13 October –Frank D. Gilroy was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
20 October –Art Buchwald was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
2 November –Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
14 November –Jean Paul died in 1825 (200th Anniversary).
4 December
- Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 (150th Anniversary).
- Hannah Arendt died in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
5 December –E. Marlitt was born in 1825 (200th Anniversary).
7 December –Thornton Wilder died in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
8 December –Carmen Martín Gaite was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
12 December –Ahmad Shamlou was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
16 December –Jane Austen was born in 1775 (250th Anniversary).
19 December
- Tankred Dorst was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
21 December –Giovanni Boccaccio died in 1375 (650th Anniversary).

New books

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Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

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New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Aria Aber	Good Girl	January 14	^[1]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Dream Count	March 4	^[2]
Amal El-Mohtar	The River Has Roots	March 4	^[3]
David Szalay	Flesh	March 11	^[4]
Suzanne Collins	Sunrise on the Reaping	March 18	^[5]
Abdulrazak Gurnah	Theft		^[6]
Ben Okri	Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted		^[7]
John Scalzi	When the Moon Hits Your Eye	March 25	^[8]
Lindsey Davis	There Will Be Bodies	April 3	^[9]
Katie Kitamura	Audition	April 8	^[10]
Isabel Allende	My Name Is Emilia del Valle	May 6	^[11]
Ocean Vuong	The Emperor of Gladness	May 13	^[12]
Jessie Elland	The Ladie Upstairs	May 22	^[13]
Stephen King	Never Flinch	May 27	^[14]
Katie Yee	Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar	July 22	^[15]
Ian McEwan	What We Can Know	September 18	^[16]
Lily King	Heart the Lover	October 7	^[17]
Salman Rushdie	The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories	November 4	^[18]

Children and young adults

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New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Huw Aaron	Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob	July 1	^[19]
Jacqueline Wilson,illus. by Rachael Dean	The Seaside Sleepover	March 27	^[20]
Rick Riordan andMark Oshiro	The Court of the Dead	September 23	^[21]
ND Stevenson	Scarlet Morning	September 23	^[22]
Charlie Mackesy	Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm	October 14	^[23]
Jeff Kinney	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper	October 21	^[24]

Poetry

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New poetry, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Robbie Coburn	The Foal in the Wire	May 28

Translations

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Notable translations first published in English:

New translations, sorted by date of publication
Author	Translator(s)	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Chaim Grade	Rose Waldman	Sons and Daughters	March 25	^[25]^[26]
Solvej Balle	Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell	On the Calculation of Volume vol. III	November 18	^[27]

Drama

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Nonfiction

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New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Michael Wolff	All or Nothing	February 25	^[28]
Ezra Klein andDerek Thompson	Abundance	March 18	^[29]
Andrea Long Chu	Authority: Essays	April 8	^[30]
Tim Bouverie	Allies at War	April 17	^[31]
David Zweig	An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions	April 22	^[32]
Monica Feria Tinta	A Barrister for the Earth	April 24	^[33]
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi	Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain	April 24	^[34]
Patrick McGee	Apple in China	May 13	^[35]
Eli Erlick	Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950	May 27	^[36]
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf	2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America	July 8	^[37]
Adam Aleksic	Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language	July 15	^[38]
Jennifer Dasal	The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris	July 15	^[39]
Dan Wang	Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future	August 26	^[40]
Eliezer Yudkowsky andNate Soares	If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies	September 16	^[41]
Philippe Sands	38 Londres Street	October 7	^[42]

Biography and memoirs

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New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Pico Iyer	Aflame: Learning from Silence	January 14	^[32]
Ibrahim Babangida	A Journey in Service	February 20	^[43]
Helen Garner	How to end a story: collected diaries, 1978–1998	March 13	^[44]
Jacinda Ardern	A Different Kind of Power	June 3	^[32]
Nicholas Boggs	Baldwin: A Love Story	August 19	^[34]
Eric Schmitt	Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court	August 19	^[45]
Miriam Toews	A Truce That Is Not Peace	August 26	^[46]
Joe Manchin	Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense	September 16	^[47]
Kamala Harris	107 Days	September 23	^[48]
John Kennedy	How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will	October 7	^[49]
Eric Trump	Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation	October 14	^[50]
Margaret Atwood	Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts	November 4	^[51]
Patti Smith	Bread of Angels: A Memoir	November 4	^[34]
John Fetterman	Unfettered	November 11	^[52]
Dick Van Dyke	100 Rules for Living to 100	November 18	^[53]
Olivia Nuzzi	American Canto	December 2	^[54]

Deaths

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2025 deaths, sorted by date of death
Individual	Background	Date of death	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
David Lodge	British author and critic (Small World: An Academic Romance, Changing Places,The Picturegoers)	January 1	89		^[55]
Joseph Monninger	American novelist and academic (The Letters)	January 1	71	lung cancer.	^[56]
Tidiane Diakité	Malian-born French historian and academic	January 2	80		^[57]
Noreen Riols	British novelist and essayist	January 2	98		^[58]
Howard Buten	American author and clown	January 3	74		^[59]
Andrew Pyper	Canadian novelist		56	Cancer	^[60]
Peter Schaap	Dutch singer-songwriter and author		78		^[61]
José Claer	Canadian novelist and poet	January 4	61		^[62]
Richard Foreman	American playwright (Rhoda in Potatoland)	January 4	87	pneumonia	^[63]
Na D'Souza	Indian novelist and short story writer	January 5	87		^[64]
Lee Hoesung	Japanese-South Korean novelist		89		^[65]
František Šmahel	Czech historian and academic		90		^[66]
Henry Beissel	Canadian poet, playwright and editor	January 9	95		^[67]
Mukhtar Magauin	Kazakh writer, translator and publicist	January 9	84		^[68]
Stephan Krasovitsky	Russian poet, translator, and priest	January 10	89		^[69]
Keith Dewhurst	English playwright and scriptwriter	January 11	93		^[70]
Paul Benacerraf	French-American philosopher	January 13	94		^[71]
André Sollie	Belgian author and illustrator	January 13	77		^[72]
Kjell Gjerseth	Norwegian novelist and journalist	January 14	78		^[73]
Li Kuei-hsien	Taiwanese poet and translator	January 15	87		^[74]
Geneviève Callerot	French novelist and resistance fighter	January 16	108		^[75]
Howard Andrew Jones	American author and editor		56	brain cancer	^[76]
Ridley Wills II	American author and historian		90		^[77]
Jules Feiffer	American cartoonist, playwright (Knock Knock), and screenwriter (Popeye,Munro),Pulitzer Prize winner (1986)	January 17	95	heart failure	^[78]
Kulanthai Shanmugalingam	Sri Lankan playwright	January 17	93		^[79]
Don Cupitt	English philosopher	January 18	90		^[80]
Jalal Matini	Iranian writer and scholar	January 19	96		^[81]
Michael Longley	Northern Irish poet (The Weather in Japan)	January 22	85	complications from surgery	^[82]
Tabish Mehdi	Indian poet and literary critic	January 22	73		^[83]
Esther Jansma	Dutch writer and poet	January 23	66	cancer	^[84]
Joseph A. Amato	American historian and writer	January 24	86		^[85]
Suzanne Massie	American historian and academic	January 26	94		^[86]
Maung Khin Min	Burmese writer and linguist	January 27	83		^[87]
Marina Colasanti	Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist	January 28	87		^[88]
Mahmoud Saeed	Iraqi-born American novelist and short story writer	January 28	86		^[89]
Tom Robbins	American novelist	February 9	92		^[90]
Antonine Maillet	Canadian novelist and playwright	February 17	95		^[91]
Joseph Wambaugh	American novelist	February 28	88	esophageal cancer	^[92]
Alex Wheatle	British novelist	March 16	62	prostate cancer	^[93]
Denise Boucher	Canadian poet and playwright	March 18	89		^[94]
Alastair Niven	British literary scholar and author	March 26	81		^[95]
Mario Vargas Llosa	Peruvian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (2010)	April 13	89		^[96]
Judith Copithorne	Canadian poet and playwright	May 15	85		^[97]
Edmund White	American novelist	June 3	85		^[98]
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	Canadian playwright	June 9	79		^[99]
Denys Chabot	Canadian novelist and journalist	June 24	80		^[100]
Anne Walmsley	British editor, scholar, critic and author	July 12	93		^[101]

Awards

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2025 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award		Valérie Bah	Subterrane	^[102]
Booker Prize		David Szalay	Flesh	^[103]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year		Matthew Purvis	The Pornographic Delicatessen: Midcentury Montréal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces	^[104]
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction		Canisia Lubrin	Code Noir	^[105]
Edna Staebler Award		Aaron Williams	The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era	^[106]
Giller Prize		Souvankham Thammavongsa	Pick a Colour	^[107]
Governor General's Awards	English Fiction	Kyle Edwards	Small Ceremonies	^[108]
	English Non-Fiction	Claire Cameron	How to Survive a Bear Attack
	English Poetry	Karen Solie	Wellwater
	English Drama	Tara Beagan	Rise, Red River
	English Children's Literature	Heather Smith	Tig
	English Children's Illustration	Tonya Simpson,Delreé Dumont	This Land Is a Lullaby
	French to English Translation	Jessica Moore	Uiesh/Somewhere
	French Fiction	Katia Belkhodja	Les déterrées	^[109]
	French Non-Fiction	Ouanessa Younsi	Soigner, écrire
	French Poetry	Paul Chanel Malenfant	Au passage du fleuve
	French Drama	Éric Noël	Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés
	French Children's literature	Laurie Léveillé	Coup bas
	French Children's illustration	Stéphane Laporte,Jacques Goldstyn	Un cadeau de Noël en novembre
	English to French translation	Sylvie Bérard,Suzanne Grenier	Les soeurs de la Muée
League of Canadian Poets	Gerald Lampert Award	Marc Perez	Dayo	^[110]
	Pat Lowther Award	Bren Simmers	The Work
	Raymond Souster Award	Chimwemwe Undi	Scientific Marvel
National Book Awards	Fiction	Rabih Alameddine	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)	^[111]
	Nonfiction	Omar El Akkad	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
	Poetry	Patricia Smith	The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
	Translated Literature	Gabriela Cabezón Cámara	We Are Green and Trembling
	Young People's Literature	Daniel Nayeri	The Teacher of Nomad Land
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour		Natalie Sue	I Hope This Finds You Well	^[112]
Trillium Book Award	English Prose	Maurice Vellekoop	I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together	^[113]
	English Poetry	Jake Byrne	DADDY
	French Prose	Aristote Kavungu	Céline au Congo
	French Poetry or Children's	Mireille Messier	Le bonnet magique
Writers' Trust of Canada	Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Maria Reva	Endling	^[114]
	Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Theory of Water
	Dayne Ogilvie Prize	Roza Nozari	All the Parts We Exile
	Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize	Bren Simmers
	Matt Cohen Award	Sheree Fitch
	Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People	Julie Flett
	Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award	Kim Thúy
	Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing	Raymond B. Blake	Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity	^[115]
	Balsillie Prize for Public Policy	Vince Beiser	Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future	^[116]
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry	Dora Prieto	"Loose Threads"	^[117]
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction	Jess Goldman	"Tombstone of a Tsaddik"
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Creative Non-fiction	Phillip Dwight Morgan	"White Trucks and Mergansers"

Notable new movies and TV series based on books

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Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions expected to premiere/broadcast during 2025:

Title	The book on which the movie/TV series is based	Type	Genre	Premiere date	Distribution company / original broadcasting network
"Dog Man"	"Dog Man" byDav Pilkey	Movie	Superhero film, comedy	January 15, 2025	Universal Pictures
"The Monkey"	"The Monkey" byStephen King	Movie	Comedy, horror	February 21, 2025	Neon
"Mickey 17"	"Mickey7" by Edward Ashton	Movie	Science fiction	March 7, 2025	Warner Bros.
"Snow White"	"Snow White" by theBrothers Grimm	Movie	Musical, Fantasy	March 21, 2025	Walt Disney
"The Bad Guys 2"	"The Bad Guys" byAaron Blabey	Movie	Animation, Heist film, comedy	August 1, 2025	Universal Pictures
"Freakier Friday"	"Freaky Friday" byMary Rodgers	Movie	Comic fantasy	August 8, 2025	Walt Disney
"Fear Street: Prom Queen"	"The Prom Queen" byR. L. Stine	Movie	Horror	TBD	Netflix
"The Running Man"	"The Running Man" byStephen King	Movie	Science fiction, action	November 7, 2025	Paramount Pictures
The Dead Girls	Las muertas byJorge Ibargüengoitia	Limited TV series	Drama	September 2025	Netflix