2025 Most-Nominated Titles


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6 Nominations:


The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Aurora Awards 2025 — novelette/novella — nomination (pending)
Hugo Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novella — 2nd place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novella — nomination
World Fantasy Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read by Caroline M. Yoachim
Eugie Awards 2025 — finalist (pending)
Hugo Awards 2025 — short story — nomination (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — short story — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — short story — 2nd place
Nebula Awards 2025 — short story — nomination
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2025 — finalist (pending)


5 Nominations:

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — first novel — winner
Nebula Awards 2025 — novel — winner

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
British SF Association Awards 2025 — short fiction — winner
Hugo Awards 2025 — short story — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — short story — winner
Nebula Awards 2025 — short story — winner
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2025 — finalist (pending)


4 Nominations:

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
British SF Association Awards 2025 — novel — nomination
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — sf novel — 4th place
Philip K. Dick Award 2025 — special citation

Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror by Sofia Ajram, ed.
Aurora Awards 2025 — related work — nomination (pending)
Bram Stoker Awards 2025 — anthology — nomination
British Fantasy Awards 2025 — anthology — nomination (pending)
Shirley Jackson Awards 2025 — edited anthology — nomination (pending)

Loneliness Universe by Eugenia Triantafyllou
British Fantasy Awards 2025 — short fiction — nomination (pending)
Hugo Awards 2025 — novelette — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novelette — 5th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novelette — nomination

Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee
Andre Norton Award 2025 — finalist
Ignyte Awards 2025 — ya novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — young adult novel — winner
Lodestar Award 2025 — finalist (pending)

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Hugo Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novella — 5th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novella — nomination
Philip K. Dick Award 2025 — finalist

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Le Guin Prize 2025 — shortlist (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — sf novel — 2nd place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novel — nomination
Otherwise Award 2025winner

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Ignyte Awards 2025 — ya novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — young adult novel — 2nd place
Lodestar Award 2025 — finalist (pending)
Mythopoeic Awards 2025 — young adult literature — nomination (pending)

Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum
British Fantasy Awards 2025 — non-fiction — nomination (pending)
British SF Association Awards 2025 — nonfiction (long) — winner
Hugo Awards 2025 — related work — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — non-fiction — 5th place


3 Nominations:

Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed by José Pablo Iriarte
Andre Norton Award 2025 — finalist
British SF Association Awards 2025 — fiction for younger readers — nomination
Ignyte Awards 2025 — middle grade novel — nomination (pending)

Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
Aurora Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — adult novel — nomination (pending)
Le Guin Prize 2025 — shortlist (pending)

The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Locus Awards 2025 — first novel — 2nd place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novel — nomination

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
Le Guin Prize 2025 — shortlist (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — fantasy novel — 3rd place
Mythopoeic Awards 2025 — adult literature — nomination (pending)

Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Aurora Awards 2025 — novelette/novella — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novella — 10th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novella — nomination

The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
Aurora Awards 2025 — novelette/novella — nomination (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Nebula Awards 2025 — novella — winner

Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K. Jones
Hugo Awards 2025 — short story — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — short story — 5th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — short story — nomination

Joanna's Bodies by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Ignyte Awards 2025 — novelette — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novelette — 10th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novelette — nomination

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Arthur C. Clarke Award 2025 — shortlist
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — first novel — 3rd place

Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being by A. W. Prihandita
Eugie Awards 2025 — finalist (pending)
Ignyte Awards 2025 — novelette — nomination (pending)
Nebula Awards 2025 — novelette — winner

Northern Lights by Michael Kelly, ed.
Aurora Awards 2025 — related work — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — anthology — 7th place
World Fantasy Awards 2025 — anthology — nomination (pending)

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arthur C. Clarke Award 2025 — shortlist
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — sf novel — 8th place

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — fantasy novel — winner
Nebula Awards 2025 — novel — nomination

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
Bram Stoker Awards 2025 — fiction collection — nomination
Ignyte Awards 2025 — anthology/collected works — nomination (pending)
World Fantasy Awards 2025 — collection — nomination (pending)

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Hugo Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — fantasy novel — 4th place
World Fantasy Awards 2025 — novel — nomination (pending)

Three Faces of a Beheading by Arkady Martine
Hugo Awards 2025 — short story — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — short story — 4th place
Shirley Jackson Awards 2025 — short fiction — nomination (pending)

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Hugo Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novella — 7th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — novella — nomination

The V*mpire by PH Lee
Locus Awards 2025 — short story — 10th place
Nebula Awards 2025 — short story — nomination
World Fantasy Awards 2025 — short fiction — nomination (pending)

The West Passage by Jared Pechacek
Le Guin Prize 2025 — shortlist (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — first novel — 4th place

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
British Fantasy Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Hugo Awards 2025 — novella — nomination (pending)
Locus Awards 2025 — novella — winner


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