2025 Nonfiction Results
Finalists
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
A Wilder Shore – Camille Peri
American Mother – Colum McCann & Diane Foley
Bitter Crop – Paul Alexander
Byron – Andrew Stauffer
Challenger – Adam Higginbotham
Charlie Hustle – Keith O’Brien
Cue the Sun! – Emily Nussbaum
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here – Jonathan Blitzer
Four Shots in the Night – Henry Hemming
Grief Is for People – Sloane Crosley
Knife – Salman Rushdie
Language City – Ross Perlin
Patriot – Alexei Navalny
Shakespeare – Judi Dench & Brendan O’Hea
Slow Noodles – Chantha Nguon
Smoke and Ashes – Amitav Ghosh
The Barn – Wright Thompson
The Bookshop – Evan Friss
The Garden Against Time – Olivia Laing
The Showman – Simon Shuster
The Siege – Ben Macintyre
There's Always This Year – Hanif Abdurraqib
Undue Burden – Shefali Luthra
Vanishing Treasures – Katherine Rundell
American Mother – Colum McCann & Diane Foley
Bitter Crop – Paul Alexander
Byron – Andrew Stauffer
Challenger – Adam Higginbotham
Charlie Hustle – Keith O’Brien
Cue the Sun! – Emily Nussbaum
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here – Jonathan Blitzer
Four Shots in the Night – Henry Hemming
Grief Is for People – Sloane Crosley
Knife – Salman Rushdie
Language City – Ross Perlin
Patriot – Alexei Navalny
Shakespeare – Judi Dench & Brendan O’Hea
Slow Noodles – Chantha Nguon
Smoke and Ashes – Amitav Ghosh
The Barn – Wright Thompson
The Bookshop – Evan Friss
The Garden Against Time – Olivia Laing
The Showman – Simon Shuster
The Siege – Ben Macintyre
There's Always This Year – Hanif Abdurraqib
Undue Burden – Shefali Luthra
Vanishing Treasures – Katherine Rundell
Octofinalists
3 Shades of Blue – James Kaplan
Carson McCullers – Mary V. Dearborn
Cher – Cher
Hardy Women – Paula Byrne
I Heard Her Call My Name – Lucy Sante
Ian Fleming – Nicholas Shakespeare
Letters – Oliver Sacks
Missing Persons – Clair Wills
My Good Bright Wolf – Sarah Moss
Our Enemies Will Vanish – Yaroslav Trofimov
Reading Genesis – Marilynne Robinson
Roman Year – André Aciman
Stranger Than Fiction – Edwin Frank
Survival Is a Promise – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Age of Deer – Erika Howsare
The Black Utopians – Aaron Robertson
The Freaks Came Out to Write – Tricia Romano
The Friday Afternoon Club – Griffin Dunne
The Message – Ta-Nehisis Coates
The New York Game – Kevin Baker
The Rebel's Clinic – Adam Shatz
The Rent Collectors – Jesse Katz
The Scapegoat – Lucy Hughes-Hallett
When the Clock Broke – John Ganz
Carson McCullers – Mary V. Dearborn
Cher – Cher
Hardy Women – Paula Byrne
I Heard Her Call My Name – Lucy Sante
Ian Fleming – Nicholas Shakespeare
Letters – Oliver Sacks
Missing Persons – Clair Wills
My Good Bright Wolf – Sarah Moss
Our Enemies Will Vanish – Yaroslav Trofimov
Reading Genesis – Marilynne Robinson
Roman Year – André Aciman
Stranger Than Fiction – Edwin Frank
Survival Is a Promise – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Age of Deer – Erika Howsare
The Black Utopians – Aaron Robertson
The Freaks Came Out to Write – Tricia Romano
The Friday Afternoon Club – Griffin Dunne
The Message – Ta-Nehisis Coates
The New York Game – Kevin Baker
The Rebel's Clinic – Adam Shatz
The Rent Collectors – Jesse Katz
The Scapegoat – Lucy Hughes-Hallett
When the Clock Broke – John Ganz