Official 2025 Kindle Book Awards

Congrats 2025 Winners!

Winners are pictured, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order. Please contact amber@thekindlebookreview.net to claim your badge. *Please note that this may take a few days.

Horror/Suspense (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Tab’s Terrible Third Eye by Isaac Thorne
• Do You Hear What I Hear? by Stephen Scott
• The Flayer by D.C. Phillips 
• Lester by Kimberly Wheelock
• Thrash Talk by Julie Hiner
• Darkmaw by Tailesih DeLauney
• Swan Song by Isabel Bercaw
• Life’s Blood by Vincent F. Herbert Jr.  
• What Lies Below by Janet Olson 
• The Band by David Kummer
• Somewhere by Matthew Reed Williams  
• The Bedfordshire Warlock by Patrick R. Field  
• Never Have I Ever by Harker Jones
• Feral by Bryan W. Alaspa 

Young Adult (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Creatures of Chaos by Lucas Hall
• The Boy Who Learned to Live by D.N. Moore
• Freak of Nature by Wendy Colbert
• Laura McGonogle and the Wombat-O-Matic by C.J. Booth
• North by Ann Michelle Harris
• More Than Ivory by Gina Best
• A Mark in the Road by Angelique Burrell
• Candace Grey’s Academy for Witches by Alexa Guttadauro
• The Kiss Wish by J.L. Wyer
• Your Knowledge or Your Life by Sophie Madden
• All We Have to Remember by C.R. Ware
• Pint-sized Pioneers by Preston Lewis
• Elusive Common Sense by Gail A. Blohowiak
• Pablum by Bea Donaldson
• The Joker’s Revenge by Nancy Beaule
• Arising by Lisa P. Rodriguez
• Awaken the Dawn, Book 1 by Ellis K. Popa
• Air and Ashes by Margaret Mantor
• Beyond the Cemetery Gate by Valerie Biel 

Romance (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Royal Caleva: Luis by Nancy Herkness
• Late Night Kiss by Angela Taylor 
• The Game by Eve Riley
• All of Me by Leslie J. Wyatt
• Never Have I by Andrea Huston 
• For You, I’d Break by Hannah Jordan
• Cherish and the Duke by Meara Platt
• A Barista that Doesn’t Drink Coffee by T.J. Dell 
• Waiting for Sunset by Starr Ayers
• The Unexpected Gift by Heidi Donohue 
• Mule Springs by Judy Hudson
• Kevin and KathRINe in the Next Lifetime by C.C. Lane
• Corporate Escapades by TK Ambers
• Do You Dare? by Tamani Wooley
• A Witch to Change the World by Suzanne Snowdon  
• Afternoon, Rebecca by Mike Kizman  
• Lunch Tales: Suellen by Lucille Guarino 
• Chasing Headlines by J. Rose Black 
• Medicine Creek Claim by CK Van Dam  

Mystery/Thriller (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Justice for Emerson by Karen E. Osborne
• Whalers by Kyle Farnworth
• Bones of Deadman’s Bluff by Rob Grindstaff
• The Fateful Voyage of the Empress of Ireland by Cheryl Roberts Gale
• Boulder Point by Deborah Mader 
• The Sunken Town by Karen Nelson  
• Women in Red by Jordan Rosenfeld 
• The Rebirth by VP Evans  
• Fire and Tears by Jessica Lewandowski 
• Double Crossed by Elliot Parker 
• Contraptions by Jeffrey Weinzweig
• Death by Trauma by Abigail Keam 
• The Widow’s Savior by Ian Griffin 
• Murder, Mess and the Tangerine Dress by Lynn Rankin-Esquer
• The Devil’s Jazz by Vincent “Chip” LoCoco
• The Echoes by Jess Montgomery 
• Murder by Symbols by E.M. Kelly 
• Born of Bombs and Bullets by David A. Dummer  
• When Anna Came Home by Shannon Condon     

Non-Fiction (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Near the Danube Bridge by Catherine Allen-Walters
• Canyon of Hope: From Darkness to Dawn; Embracing the Light Within by Eric Donoho
• Hold Back the Rain by Michelle Vignault
• The Life of Riley Living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Dianne DeMille
• Grit & Grace: The Transformation of a Ship & a Soul by Deborah Rudell
• Have a Love Affair with Travel: Your Ticket to an Exhilarating Life by Evelyn/Natalie Kelly
• The Poker Powered Brain: Play the Game. Train Your Brain by Lena Evans
• The Lord Is… by SD Simms
• Literacy Roots: Nurturing Your Child’s Reading Journey from Birth to Brilliance by Lauren Daugherty
• Young Salt at Sixty: Becoming Better Than Retired by  Deborah Hammett
• COVID WARS: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom by Ronald Gruner
• Beyond Fear: A Woman’s Path to Enlightenment by Karen Chrappa
• Two Tickets To Paradise: From Cult to Comedy by Katie Love
• And Goliath: The Littlest Navy SEAL’s Inspirational Story About Living Your Biggest Life by David Brown
• Pennies from Vietnam: A Sister at Home, a Brother at War by Tracy Smith
• Against All Odds by Tristian Smith
• Even There: Love, Faith, and Danger in Wild Alaska by Joy Ng
• To Kill a Cockroach by Osvaldo Amador
• Memoir of a Mangled Mind: How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities by Steven Shelton

Literary Fiction (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum by Beth Brookhart
• Chick Singer by Lorraine Devon Wilke
• Pryor Knowledge by M.B. Gibson
• Street by A.D. Metcalfe
• Blood to Rubies by Deborah Hufford 
• Indelicate Deception by V.S. Kemanis   
• Where Truth Lies Waiting by Tanja David Tucker   
• Islands of Women by Eileen O’ Hara 
• Lights Out Lizzie by James Hanna   
• Billy Dee of the Ozarks by J. Lee Bagan 
• The Silver Squad by Marty Essen 
• The Sower of Black Field by Katherine Koch 
• Blood for Pearls by Peter Von Perle  
• Catbird Winter by Monte Hill 
• A Life Worth Living by Don Lemkuhl
• Time and the Tree by Riosin Sorahan 
• Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies by Karl Wegener
• In Between by Natasa Dragnic  
• Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum 

Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Winners are pictures, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

• Partner in Crime by G.P. Robbins 
• Immortality Bytes by Daniel Lawrence Abrams 
• A Light in the Dark by Audrey Greene
• Dreamteller by K.D. Shade
• Experimental Voyage by RJ Blain   
• Cicero James, Miracle Worker by Hal Emerson 
• Tale of the Seasons’ Weaver by D. Wallace Peach  
• The Necromancer’s Daughter by D. Wallace Peach  
• An Odyssey Home: A Winnipeg Novel by Carol McCullough 
• Born in Space by Jeremy Cliff  
• Ghosts of Rheynia by Tim Facciola  
• A Vengeful Realm by Tim Facciola 
• Life on Mars or Love in 3D by Sana Budiak 
• Echoes from the Past by Stephen Herald
• The Mantle of the Past by Lewis O D’Ambra
• Prophet by David Hoffer   
• Battle Mage by Peter A. Flannery 
• Two Thrones by AJ Bugayong
• Zephyr’s Flight by Ray Strong 

Readers’ Favorite: Overall Winner pictured – finalists listed in red

YA – More than Ivory by Gina Augustini Best

Horror – The Flayer by D.C. Phillips

Science Fiction – Partner in Crime by G.P. Robbins 

Romance – Keyed Up & Jazzed Up Duet by Laura M. Baird 

Nonfiction – Canyon of Hope by Eric B. Donoho

 

 

Book Cover: (Winner is enlarged, finalists are listed in red and in no particular order, followed below by semifinalists)

The Jilt by M. Battle Jackson

Karma Never Sleeps by R. John Dingle 

Beyond Fear by Karen Chrappa 

Break by Brenna Ferrell