The City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library have announced the longlist for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.

A five-book shortlist will be released later this summer and the winner announced on October 15.

With this year’s prize, the Toronto Book Awards have doubled in value: the winning author will now receive $20,000, and the shortlisted finalists each receive $2,000. 

The prize was established in 1979 and honours works of literary merit that are inspired by Toronto and its residents.

The longlisted titles are:

• Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig (Coach House Books) 
• Unlike The Rest: A Doctor’s Story by Chika Stacey Oriuwa (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor (House of Anansi Press) 
• The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse by Vinh Nguyen (HarperCollins Publishers) 
• Other Worlds by André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada) 
• Nobody Asked For This by Georgia Toews (Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House Canada) 
• Story of Your Mother by Chantal Braganza (Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada) 
• All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada) 
• Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery (Gordon Hill Press) 
• The Knowing by Tanya Talaga (HarperCollins Publishers) 
• The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi Press) 
• Anne of the Library-on-the-Hill by Catherine Little with Sae Kimura (Plum Leaf Press) 

This year’s jury is composed of  Sam Hiyate, Sophie Jai, Wanda Nanibush, Don Oravec, and David Silverberg.