# 2025 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2025.

## Anniversaries

* 14 January – Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 18 January – Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 20 January – Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 20 January – Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 1 February – Alfred Grosser was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 4 February – Russell Hoban was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 6 February – Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 22 February – Edward Gorey was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 24 February – Etel Adnan was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 10 March – Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 12 March – Harry Harrison was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 21 March – Peter Brook was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 25 March – Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 1 August – Ernst Jandl was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
* 3 October – Gore Vidal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).

## New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

### Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of Pub. |
| Aria Aber | Good Girl | January 14 |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Dream Count | March 4 |
| Amal El-Mohtar | The River Has Roots | March 4 |
| David Szalay | Flesh | March 11 |
| Owen Hebbert | Art and Artifice | March 12 |
| Suzanne Collins | Sunrise on the Reaping | March 18 |
| Nicole Cuffy | O Sinners! | March 18 |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | Theft | March 18 |
| Ben Okri | Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted | March 18 |
| Lindsey Davis | There Will Be Bodies | April 3 |
| Katie Kitamura | Audition | April 8 |
| Isabel Allende | My Name Is Emilia Del Valle | May 6 |
| Ocean Vuong | The Emperor of Gladness | May 13 |
| Jessie Elland | The Ladie Upstairs | May 22 |
| John Scalzi | When the Moon Hits Your Eye | March 25 |
| Stephen King | Never Flinch | May 27 |
| Santiago Jose Sanchez | Hombrecito | June 25 |
| Ian McEwan | What We Can Know | September 18 |

### Children and young adults

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |

### Poetry

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
| Robbie Coburn | The Foal in the Wire | May 28 | |

### Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |

### Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |

## Deaths

2025 deaths, sorted by date of death :
| Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death |
| David Lodge | British author and critic (Small World: An Academic Romance, Changing Places, The Picturegoers) | January 1 | 89 | |
| Joseph Monninger | American novelist and academic (The Letters) | January 1 | 71 | lung cancer. |
| Tidiane Diakité | Malian-born French historian and academic | January 2 | 80 | |
| Noreen Riols | British novelist and essayist | January 2 | 98 | |
| Howard Buten | American author and clown | January 3 | 74 | |
| Peter Schaap | Dutch singer-songwriter and author | January 3 | 78 | |
| José Claer | Canadian novelist and poet | January 4 | 61 | |
| Richard Foreman | American playwright (Rhoda in Potatoland) | January 4 | 87 | pneumonia |
| Na D'Souza | Indian novelist and short story writer | January 5 | 87 | |
| Lee Hoesung | Japanese-South Korean novelist | January 5 | 89 | |
| František Šmahel | Czech historian and academic | January 5 | 90 | |
| Henry Beissel | Canadian poet, playwright and editor | January 9 | 95 | |
| Mukhtar Magauin | Kazakh writer, translator and publicist | January 9 | 84 | |
| Stephan Krasovitsky | Russian poet, translator, and priest | January 10 | 89 | |
| Keith Dewhurst | English playwright and scriptwriter | January 11 | 93 | |
| Paul Benacerraf | French-American philosopher | January 13 | 94 | |
| André Sollie | Belgian author and illustrator | January 13 | 77 | |
| Kjell Gjerseth | Norwegian novelist and journalist | January 14 | 78 | |
| Li Kuei-hsien | Taiwanese poet and translator | January 15 | 87 | |
| Geneviève Callerot | French novelist and resistance fighter | January 16 | 108 | |
| Howard Andrew Jones | American author and editor | January 16 | 56 | brain cancer |
| Ridley Wills II | American author and historian | January 16 | 90 | |
| Jules Feiffer | American cartoonist, playwright (Knock Knock), and screenwriter (Popeye, Munro), Pulitzer Prize winner (1986) | January 17 | 95 | heart failure |
| Kulanthai Shanmugalingam | Sri Lankan playwright | January 17 | 93 | |
| Don Cupitt | English philosopher | January 18 | 90 | |
| Jalal Matini | Iranian writer and scholar | January 19 | 96 | |
| Michael Longley | Northern Irish poet (The Weather in Japan) | January 22 | 85 | complications from surgery |
| Tabish Mehdi | Indian poet and literary critic | January 22 | 73 | |
| Esther Jansma | Dutch writer and poet | January 23 | 66 | cancer |
| Joseph A. Amato | American historian and writer | January 24 | 86 | |
| Suzanne Massie | American historian and academic | January 26 | 94 | |
| Maung Khin Min | Burmese writer and linguist | January 27 | 83 | |
| Marina Colasanti | Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist | January 28 | 87 | |
| Mahmoud Saeed | Iraqi-born American novelist and short story writer | January 28 | 86 | |
| Tom Robbins | American novelist | February 9 | 92 | |
| Joseph Wambaugh | American novelist | February 28 | 88 | esophageal cancer |

## Awards

2025 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award :
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Ref. |

## Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions expected to premiere/broadcast during 2025:
| Title | The book on which the movie/TV series is based | Type | Genre | Premiere date | Distribution company / original broadcasting network |
| "Dog Man" | "Dog Man" by Dav Pilkey | Movie | Superhero film, comedy | January 15, 2025 | Universal Pictures |
| "The Monkey" | "The Monkey" by Stephen King | Movie | Comedy, horror | February 21, 2025 | Neon |
| "Mickey 17" | "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton | Movie | Science fiction | March 7, 2025 | Warner Bros. |
| "Snow White" | "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm | Movie | Musical, Fantasy | March 21, 2025 | Walt Disney |
| "The Bad Guys 2" | "The Bad Guys" by Aaron Blabey | Movie | Animation, Heist film, comedy | August 1, 2025 | Universal Pictures |
| "Freakier Friday" | "Freaky Friday" by Mary Rodgers | Movie | Comic fantasy | August 8, 2025 | Walt Disney |
| "Fear Street: Prom Queen" | "The Prom Queen" by R. L. Stine | Movie | Horror | TBD | Netflix |
| "The Running Man" | "The Running Man" by Stephen King | Movie | Science fiction, action | November 7, 2025 | Paramount Pictures |