Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Fiction 2025

Winner

• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
  Rabih Alameddine

Finalists

• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar
• The Antidote
  Karen Russell
• North Sun

  Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
  Ethan Rutherford
• Palaver
  Bryan Washington

Longlist

• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• The Wilderness
  Angela Flournoy
• The Sisters
  Jonas Hassen Khemiri
• Only Son
  Kevin Moffett
• The Pelican Child

  Stories
  Joy Williams