Here Are the 2025 Libby Award Winners

The winners of the second annual Libby Book Awards have been announced. The award seeks to honor the best in digital reading, and span across ebooks, audiobooks, and a variety of genres.

Since Libby is a library app, accompanying this year’s winners announcement is a bevy of recommendations for how to incorporate this year’s winners with library programming.

As for the winners themselves, many of them are books that were either popular last year and/or award-winning—like Kristin Hannah’s The Women and Percival Everett’s James.

Below are this year’s winners.

Adult Fiction

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Adult Nonfiction

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

YA Fiction

Heir by Sabaa Tahir

Audiobook of the Year

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, narrated by Will Patton and Erik Larson

Debut Author of the Year

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Best Book Club Book

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls

Best Fantasy

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Best Historical Fiction

James by Percival Everett

For more of the winners, visit Overdrive.

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