Gabriella Burnham’s novel WAIT was longlisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, which “recognizes writing that captures the spirit of Brooklyn, one of the most socially and culturally diverse communities in the country.” One World published WAIT on May 21, 2024.

THE CATCH by Yrsa Daley Ward was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced in the fall, and the overall winner will be announced at the Center for Fiction's Annual Awards Benefit on December 9, 2025. Liveright Publishing Corporation published the book on June 3, 2025.

AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY by Susanna Kwan was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced in the fall, and the overall winner will be announced at the Center for Fiction's Annual Awards Benefit on December 9, 2025. Pantheon published the book on May 13, 2025.

DOMINION by Addie E. Citchens was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced in the fall, and the overall winner will be announced at the Center for Fiction's Annual Awards Benefit on December 9, 2025. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on August 19, 2025.

FLORENZER by Phil Melanson was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2025 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced in the fall, and the overall winner will be announced at the Center for Fiction's Annual Awards Benefit on December 9, 2025. W. W. Norton published the book on June 10, 2025.

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER by Muriel Leung is a finalist for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. The winners will be announced via virtual ceremony on October 4, 2025. W.W. Norton & Company published the book on April 25, 2025.

ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer is the winner of the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the prestigious award given to the best science fiction novel of the year. ANNIE BOT was published by Mariner Books on March 19, 2024.

FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART by GennaRose Nethercott is the winner of the Vermont Book Award in Fiction. The ceremony took place at the College Hall chapel in Montpelier on May 3. The collection was published by Vintage on February 6, 2024.

Kailee Pedersen’s SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS has been honored by the Otherwise Award as one of five works on its 2024 Long List. The Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award), founded in 1991, is a juried award for speculative fiction works that explore gender. The novel and other honored works will be celebrated at the WisCon 2025 convention gala on May 25. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

Maggie Millner has won the “5 Under 35” honor from the National Book Foundation for her debut work COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY. The book was selected by C Pam Zhang. Praising COUPLETS, she writes: “These words cut to the hot quick of longing; these pages bleed beauty. Tender, prickly, funny, self-effacing, cerebral, erotic, and luminous, this is a book that never settles, forever restless, an ode to that deepest and most abiding form of love — that for one’s many infinite selves.” COUPLETS was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on February 6, 2024.