It’s that time of year again! Hard to believe, isn’t it? Authors, editors, and publishers start assembling posts of their award-eligible work for the year; reviewers and readers share lists of the things they’ve loved during the year. As an author, reader, and reviewers, I’m a big proponent of all of the above! There are so many games, poems, books, stories, movies, and TV shows that come out in any given year, it’s impossible to keep track of them all.
Posting your award eligible work is a fantastic way to not only remind people of what you’ve done and help them find things they may have missed, but it’s a good way to look back on what you’ve accomplished in a year. It’s easy to lose things in the churn, including pride in your own work, especially since there’s often a large gap between when something is created and when it appears in the world. Also, let’s face it, we could all use a reason to celebrate, and art, fiction, and joy in creating and making are just that.
With all that said, here’s how this works. Over the next few months, I’ll be collecting links to eligibility posts and listing them alphabetically here. I’ll also be collecting links to recommendation posts, and links to various awards and resources where folks can nominate or submit work for consideration. If you have a post you want me to list, feel free to drop it in the comments, email me at a.c.wise [at] hotmail.com, or tag me on BlueSky with your link.
I’ll try to update the post as often as possible. Check out other creators’ links for examples of posts and to see all the amazing work that made its way out into the world this year. Let’s celebrate art, words, games, poetry, non-fiction, all of it. Share what you made and tell us what you loved!
Award Resources
BSFA Awards (voting open for members until February 19, 2026)
Lambda Literary Awards (submission period closed November 21, 2025)
Locus Awards (voting open until April 1, 2026)
Nebula Awards (nominations open until March 1, 2026)
Otherwise Awards (submission period closed November 15, 2025)
Stoker Award (voting open for members until February 15, 2026)
World Fantasy Award (submissions open until April 30, 2026)
Eligibility Posts
Hugo Eligible Booklist ( recommended reading, not necessarily comprehensive of every eligible work)
Recommendation Posts
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year
Andrew Liptak Recommended Reading
A.P. Howell Recommended Reading
Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025
Barnes & Noble Best Horror Books of 2025
Bogi Takács Recommended Reading
Eugenia Triantafyllou Recommended Reading
Ginger Nuts of Horror Best Horror Books of 2025
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2025
John Wiswell’s Favorites of 2025
Library Journal Best Books of the Year 2025
Lineup Best Horror Books of 2025
Locus Recommended Reading List
Marissa Lingen Recommended Reading
Nebula Award Recommended Reading List
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Fiction Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Visual Works Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Individual Categories
Nerds of a Feather Hugo Recommendations: Institutional Categories
Queer SFF Novels Published in 2025
Reactor Reviewers’ Choice Best Books of 2025
Reactor Readers’ Favorite SFFH of 2025
Reactor’s Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 2025
Sam J. Miller Recommended Reading
Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot
Tarvalon’s Reading Recommendations 2025
Here’s my 2025 awards eligibility post, and thanks for the lovely review!
https://daviddlevine.com/2025/12/david-levine-2025-awards-eligibility/
Thank you! I’ll add it to the list.
Here is my 2025 awards eligibility post. Thank you for doing this!
https://gwynnega.dreamwidth.org/2163105.html
aloha, “Valley of Spiraling Winds” is a scifi novel eligible for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The writer is also eligible for the Outstanding Award for New Writer. itʻs probably one of the only indigenous scifi novels of 2025. Itʻs published by a small academic publisher on the island of Oʻahu, and the writer is Native Hawaiian. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/valley-of-spiraling-winds/. Reviewer Paul Lyons writes: “This work by Peter Britos is some of the most interesting extrapolative fiction written in and about Hawaiʻi to date—a truly exceptional, outsized, audacious, brilliant piece of writing, on the imaginative and conceptual scale of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or William Gibson’s Neuromancer.”
Thank you for doing this! Here’s my list:
https://www.firewombats.com/eligibility-post-2025/
Cheers,
Karl G Dandenell