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See our 2025 Shortlist Selections ...
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
by Jenny Wood
by Charles Melcher
by Sam Kean
by Rutger Bregman
by Adam Aleksic
by Eliot Stein
by Cory Doctorow
by Tim Minshall
by Justin Gregg
by Judd Kessler
by Oz Pearlman
by Nicholas Carr
by Rosalind Chow
by Helen Lewis
The Best Book Covers & Titles of 2025
The Biggest Book Trends of 2025
As part of our judging process, we curate the biggest trends from all non-fiction books that we evaluated throughout the year. Here are the 12 biggest trends we identified from books published during 2025.
See the 2025 Longlist Selections ...
2025 was our eleventh anniversary of running these awards - and we considered over 1000 titles to narrow down our Longlist and Shortlist. The titles selected for this list were the very best non-fiction titles published all year. The Longlist is announced and included below.
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Here are our finalist selections for the 2025 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist (listed alphabetically by book title):
About the Non-Obvious Book Awards
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