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Benable List: Top Bookshop.org Picks for 2025 📚

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Explore the most anticipated and celebrated books of 2025, handpicked from Bookshop.org's latest offerings. From gripping thrillers to insightful memoirs, these titles promise to captivate and inspire. Plus, your purchase supports independent bookstores nationwide.

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FICTION'S FINEST! All the Winners of the Booker Prize: 1969 to the Present

The 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week

FICTION'S FINEST! All the Winners of the Booker Prize: 1969 to the Present

The Booker Prize is the world's most prestigious award for a work of fiction. In reverse chronological order - from the most recent 2024 winner back to the very first in 1969 - here are all the winners.

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space.
Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 ...

Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award One of The Irish Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century...

Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, co...

The Gathering: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–w...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood. . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passio...

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer, telling the heart-wrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride...

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

The 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

WRITTEN BY WOMEN. . . WRITTEN FOR EVERYONE. . . The Women's Prize for Fiction is the world's most prestigious annual book award honoring women's fiction. Founded in 1996, the Prize celebrates originality, accessibility and excellence in writing by wo...

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself. *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S...

Fundamentally: A Novel

Shortlisted for The Women’s Prize • Named a Most Anticipated Book by Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, The BBC, Daily Mail (London), and more “Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed…glinting w...

The Persians: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ BY JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fi...

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“An exhilarating debut novel.” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history A girl can get in ...

Good Girl: A Novel

Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week

Last Week's Top-Selling Books: Literary Gems & Trending Reads Pulitzer Prize winners reentered our bestsellers this week, with James again flying off the shelves. Discover thought-provoking political critiques captivating readers nationwide, alongside accessible self-improvement titles designed ...

From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate effor...

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

Featured in The New York Times's "Nonfiction to Read This Spring" Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in...

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from the go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned ...

The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, G...

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. “Truthful, rueful and delightful.”—LA Times In Alison Bechdel’s hilariou...

Spent: A Comic Novel

From the founder of Money with Katie, a leveled-up finance guide for ambitious women everywhere—and a rallying cry for a new money movement Women experience money differently than men do. In the United States, women have only 55 cents for every dolla...

Rich Girl Nation: Taking Charge of Our Financial Futures

A new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers. In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy. Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the Uni...

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

An instant New York Times bestseller • Oprah’s Book Club Pick • Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive “Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful exa...

The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchain to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon “A must read for anyone who wants ...

Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet