Winners were named for the 2025 Christy Awards, honoring "the year's best Christian fiction" and sponsored by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association:
The Christy Book of the Year: All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee (Tyndale House Publishers) [Also co-winner in the historical category.]
The Amplify Award for Christian Fiction: Bitter and Sweet by Rhonda McKnight (Thomas Nelson Publishers)
Contemporary Romance: The Roads We Follow by Nicole Deese (Bethany House)
First Novel: Darkfell by Amanda Wright (Quill & Flame Publishing House)
General Fiction: Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda Cox (Revell)
Historical: (tie)
All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee (Tyndale House Publishers)
Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes (Bethany House)
Historical Romance: As Sure as the Sea by Jamie Ogle (Tyndale House Publishers)
Mystery/Suspense/Thriller: Night Falls on Predicament Avenue by Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House)
Short Form: "A Daffodil in the Dress" (in Something Borrowed) by Susie Finkbeiner (Kregel Publications)
Speculative: Memoria by J.J. Fischer (Enclave)
Young Adult: The Chaos Grid by Lyndsey Lewellen (Enclave Escape)