Congratulations to our 2025 ALA Award Winners & Honorees

By Kaitlyn Spotts | January 29 2025 | GeneralConferences

The American Library Association (ALA) announced their 2025 literary award winners and honorees during LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience. Below you can find a selection of Penguin Random House titles that were among the winners.

 

Explore the collection of award winners and honorees here.

 

Alex Award

Big Jim and the White Boy

Daughters of Shandong

How to Solve Your Own Murder

Woman, Life, Freedom

 

Browse previous Alex Award winners here.

 

Asian/Pacific American Youth Award Winner

Everything We Never Had

 

Asian Pacific American Award for Literature

Adult Fiction Winner: Same Bed Different Dreams

Adult Fiction Honor: Green Frog: Stories

Adult Non-Fiction Honor: Advocate

 

Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor

Black Girl You Are Atlas

 

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess

 

Newbery Honor

Across So Many Seas

A traves de los mares

 

Odyssey Award Honor Audiobook

Black Girl You Are Atlas

 

Pura Belpré Award Author Honor

Libertad

 

Michael L. Printz Award Honor

Bright Red Fruit

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best Middle Grade Book Winner

Popcorn

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best YA Book Winner

Chronically Dolores

 

Schneider Family Book Award Best YA Book Honor

Light Enough to Float

On the Bright Side

 

Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Honor

Across So Many Seas

A traves de los mares

Max in the House of Spies

 

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Finalist

Shackled

 

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

James

 

ALA Notable Books Fiction

James

Wandering Stars

 

ALA Notable Books Nonfiction

Becoming Earth

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

No Road Leading Back

There’s Always This Year

 

Listen List

James

 

RUSA Reading List – Historical Fiction Short List

All We Were Promised