2025 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2025.

Anniversaries

• 14 January – Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 18 January – Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 20 January – Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 20 January – Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 1 February – Alfred Grosser was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 4 February – Russell Hoban was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 6 February – Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 22 February – Edward Gorey was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 24 February – Etel Adnan was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 10 March – Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 12 March – Harry Harrison was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 21 March – Peter Brook was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 25 March – Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 11 May – Rubem Fonseca was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 27 May – Tony Hillerman was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 10 June – James Salter was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 30 June – Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 19 July – Jean-Pierre Faye was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 20 July – Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 26 July – Ana María Matute was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 1 August – Ernst Jandl was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 6 September – Andrea Camilleri was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
• 3 October – Gore Vidal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Aria Aber	Good Girl	January 14	[1]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Dream Count	March 4	[2]
Amal El-Mohtar	The River Has Roots		[3]
David Szalay	Flesh	March 11	[4]
Suzanne Collins	Sunrise on the Reaping	March 18	[5]
Abdulrazak Gurnah	Theft		[6]
Ben Okri	Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted		[7]
John Scalzi	When the Moon Hits Your Eye	March 25	[8]
Lindsey Davis	There Will Be Bodies	April 3	[9]
Katie Kitamura	Audition	April 8	[10]
Isabel Allende	My Name Is Emilia Del Valle	May 6	[11]
Ocean Vuong	The Emperor of Gladness	May 13	[12]
Jessie Elland	The Ladie Upstairs	May 22	[13]
Stephen King	Never Flinch	May 27	[14]
Ian McEwan	What We Can Know	September 18	[15]

Children and young adults

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Poetry

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Robbie Coburn	The Foal in the Wire	May 28

Drama

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Deaths

2025 deaths, sorted by date of death

Individual	Background	Date of Death	Age	Cause of Death	Ref.
David Lodge	British author and critic (Small World: An Academic Romance, Changing Places, The Picturegoers)	January 1	89		[16]
Joseph Monninger	American novelist and academic (The Letters)		71	lung cancer.	[17]
Tidiane Diakité	Malian-born French historian and academic	January 2	80		[18]
Noreen Riols	British novelist and essayist		98		[19]
Howard Buten	American author and clown	January 3	74		[20]
Andrew Pyper	Canadian novelist		56	Cancer	[21]
Peter Schaap	Dutch singer-songwriter and author		78		[22]
José Claer	Canadian novelist and poet	January 4	61		[23]
Richard Foreman	American playwright (Rhoda in Potatoland)		87	pneumonia	[24]
Na D'Souza	Indian novelist and short story writer	January 5	87		[25]
Lee Hoesung	Japanese-South Korean novelist		89		[26]
František Šmahel	Czech historian and academic		90		[27]
Henry Beissel	Canadian poet, playwright and editor	January 9	95		[28]
Mukhtar Magauin	Kazakh writer, translator and publicist		84		[29]
Stephan Krasovitsky	Russian poet, translator, and priest	January 10	89		[30]
Keith Dewhurst	English playwright and scriptwriter	January 11	93		[31]
Paul Benacerraf	French-American philosopher	January 13	94		[32]
André Sollie	Belgian author and illustrator		77		[33]
Kjell Gjerseth	Norwegian novelist and journalist	January 14	78		[34]
Li Kuei-hsien	Taiwanese poet and translator	January 15	87		[35]
Geneviève Callerot	French novelist and resistance fighter	January 16	108		[36]
Howard Andrew Jones	American author and editor		56	brain cancer	[37]
Ridley Wills II	American author and historian		90		[38]
Jules Feiffer	American cartoonist, playwright (Knock Knock), and screenwriter (Popeye, Munro), Pulitzer Prize winner (1986)	January 17	95	heart failure	[39]
Kulanthai Shanmugalingam	Sri Lankan playwright		93		[40]
Don Cupitt	English philosopher	January 18	90		[41]
Jalal Matini	Iranian writer and scholar	January 19	96		[42]
Michael Longley	Northern Irish poet (The Weather in Japan)	January 22	85	complications from surgery	[43]
Tabish Mehdi	Indian poet and literary critic		73		[44]
Esther Jansma	Dutch writer and poet	January 23	66	cancer	[45]
Joseph A. Amato	American historian and writer	January 24	86		[46]
Suzanne Massie	American historian and academic	January 26	94		[47]
Maung Khin Min	Burmese writer and linguist	January 27	83		[48]
Marina Colasanti	Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist	January 28	87		[49]
Mahmoud Saeed	Iraqi-born American novelist and short story writer		86		[50]
Tom Robbins	American novelist	February 9	92		[51]
Antonine Maillet	Canadian novelist and playwright	February 17	95		[52]
Joseph Wambaugh	American novelist	February 28	88	esophageal cancer	[53]
Denise Boucher	Canadian poet and playwright	March 18	89		[54]
Mario Vargas Llosa	Peruvian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (2010)	April 13	89		[55]
Judith Copithorne	Canadian poet and playwright	May 15	85		[56]
Edmund White	American novelist	June 3	85		[57]
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu	Canadian playwright	June 9	79		[58]
Denys Chabot	Canadian novelist and journalist	June 24	80		[59]

Awards

2025 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award

Award	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award		Valérie Bah	Subterrane	[60]
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction		Canisia Lubrin	Code Noir	[61]
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour		Natalie Sue	I Hope This Finds You Well	[62]
Trillium Book Award	English Prose	Maurice Vellekoop	I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together	[63]
	English Poetry	Jake Byrne	DADDY
	French Prose	Aristote Kavungu	Céline au Congo
	French Poetry or Children's	Mireille Messier	Le bonnet magique

Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions expected to premiere/broadcast during 2025:

Title	The book on which the movie/TV series is based	Type	Genre	Premiere date	Distribution company / original broadcasting network
"Dog Man"	"Dog Man" by Dav Pilkey	Movie	Superhero film, comedy	January 15, 2025	Universal Pictures
"The Monkey"	"The Monkey" by Stephen King	Movie	Comedy, horror	February 21, 2025	Neon
"Mickey 17"	"Mickey7" by Edward Ashton	Movie	Science fiction	March 7, 2025	Warner Bros.
"Snow White"	"Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm	Movie	Musical, Fantasy	March 21, 2025	Walt Disney
"The Bad Guys 2"	"The Bad Guys" by Aaron Blabey	Movie	Animation, Heist film, comedy	August 1, 2025	Universal Pictures
"Freakier Friday"	"Freaky Friday" by Mary Rodgers	Movie	Comic fantasy	August 8, 2025	Walt Disney
"Fear Street: Prom Queen"	"The Prom Queen" by R. L. Stine	Movie	Horror	TBD	Netflix
"The Running Man"	"The Running Man" by Stephen King	Movie	Science fiction, action	November 7, 2025	Paramount Pictures

See also