Last night, winners were celebrated at the 2025 New England Book Awards, sponsored by the New England Independent Booksellers Association, at the awards banquet at NEIBA's fall conference. The winners:
Fiction: The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Nonfiction: How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper (Broadleaf Books)
Poetry: Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall by Stephanie Burt (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
Young Adult: The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido)
Middle Grade: Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson (Scholastic)
Picture Book: Big Enough by Regina Linke (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)