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2025 Christy Award

Announced

The 2025 Christy Awards for Christian fiction were announced on November 7, 2025, during a gala webcast. All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee was named Book of the Year and shared the Historical category in a tie with Amanda Dykes's Born of Gilded Mountains. Other winners were Nicole Deese's The Roads We Follow in Contemporary Romance, Amanda Wright's Darkfell for First Novel, Amanda Cox's Between the Sound and Sea in General Fiction, Jamie Ogle's As Sure as the Sea in Historical Romance, Jaime Jo Wright's Night Falls on Predicament Avenue in Mystery, Suspense and Thriller, J. J. Fischer's Memoria in Speculative fiction and Lyndsey Lewellen's The Chaos Grid in Young Adult. Rhonda McKnight's Bitter and Sweet received the Amplify Award. Each category had three to five finalists.

Source: official announcement

Book of the Year

Amplify Award

Contemporary Romance

First Novel

  • Cover of Darkfell by Amanda WrightWinner

    Darkfell

    Amanda Wright

    Christy Award Winner

General Fiction

Historical

Historical Romance

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Speculative

  • Cover of Memoria by J. J. FischerWinner

    Memoria

    J. J. Fischer

    Christy Award Winner

Young Adult

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