Six books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Lane Anderson Awards in the adult and young reader categories.

Six books have been named finalists for the 2025 Lane Anderson Awards.

The annual prize, created to bolster the writing of popular science, is administered by the Fitzhenry Family Foundation. Winners are named each year in two categories: adult and young reader, and each winner receives $10,000.

The shortlisted books in the adult category are:

• I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin (Allen Lane Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing by Dr. Jennifer Grenz (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction by Sarah Cox (Goose Lane Editions)

The shortlisted books in the young reader category are:

• I Am Wind: An Autobiography by Rachel Poliquin and Rachel Wada, ill. (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
• A Planet Is a Poem by Amanda West Lewis and Oliver Averill, ill. (Kids Can Press)
• Remember This: The Fascinating World of Memory by Monique Polak and Valéry Goulet, ill. (Orca Book Publishers)

The winners will be named at a ceremony in Toronto in January 2026.

John Vaillant and L. E. Carmichael and Byron Eggenschwiler were named the winners of the 2024 Lane Anderson Awards in January for their books Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast and Polar: Wildlife at the Ends of the Earth.