Winners of the 2025 Audie Awards, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association, were celebrated last night in New York City at the APA's annual gala. The Audiobook of the Year was My Name Is Barbra, written and narrated by Barbra Streisand (Penguin Random House Audio), which also won in the Autobiography/Memoir category. To see all 28 winners, click here.
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Finalists have been selected for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner, who will be named in early April, receives $15,000, while the remaining four finalists each get $5,000. All five authors--along with this year's PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion--will be honored on May 15 at the PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration in Washington, D.C. This year's finalists are:
Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (HarperVia)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
"This year's finalists offer us breathtaking voices from Palestinians in Baltimore, from Lagos, from a vivid Los Angeles and a hospital bed in Iowa City, as well as from the deep annals of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," said prize committee chair Laure Francis-Sharma. "These voices haunt, whisper, and invoke humor and terror. They make us feel deeply at a time when so many of us feel numb at the happenings of the world around us. In these pages we get the fullness of humanity, and we here at PEN/Faulkner cannot wait to celebrate these magnificent contributions to American fiction."