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SLJ’s 2025 Best Books Cover Unveiled. Download PDF of Full List.
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SLJ’s 2025 Best Books Cover Unveiled

SLJ has selected 191 titles for our 2025 Best Books of the year! Download the PDF of the full list and take a look at our fabulous December issue cover, dedicated to this year's list.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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Best Manga 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Manga 2025 | SLJ Best Books

The 2025 Best Manga roundup features haunting sci-fi, slow-burn romance, and charming friendship tales for middle grade and YA readers.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books

The 2025 Best Manga roundup features haunting sci-fi, slow-burn romance, and charming friendship tales for middle grade and YA readers.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Interview with Best Books Cover Artist Loris Lora
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Interview with Phenomenal Best Books Cover Artist Loris Lora

SLJ chats with the Pura Belpre–winning artist about the creative process for this year’s December Best Books cover.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

From poo and tentacles to contemplative picture book biographies, this year’s picks for the Best Nonfiction for Elementary readers are filled with facts, information, and wonder.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Best Picture Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Picture Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

From sensory-filled illustrations to relentlessly funny characters, the 2025 Best Picture Books make for excellent read-alouds, heartfelt one-on-ones, and heartrending reads.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Best Transitional Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Transitional Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

These Best Transitional Books of 2025 for beginning, emerging, and newly independent readers include relatable friendship tales, challenges overcome, and everyday slice-of-life stories that are pitch-...

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November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Best Middle Grade Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Middle Grade Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

The Best Middle Grade titles of 2025 feature action-packed fantasies, resonant realistic fiction, and heart-pounding horror stories for tweens.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Best Young Adult Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Young Adult Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

The 2025 YA Best Books list has a choice for every teen—long-anticipated companion novels, adorable rom-coms, and genre-bending romanstasy.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Best Poetry Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Poetry Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

Vibrant anthologies, powerful celebrations of groundbreaking figures, and volumes filled with concrete poems and traditional rhymes make their appearance on our Best Poetry list.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books

From poo and tentacles to contemplative picture book biographies, this year’s picks for the Best Nonfiction for Elementary readers are filled with facts, information, and wonder.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Our 2025 Best Books list is live!!! #sljbestbooks

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Best Books 2025

We hope that SLJ’s Best Books of 2025, filled with adventurous and fantastical stories, silly and breathtaking picture books, true-crime mysteries and stirring romances, and universally consumed manga...

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November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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So proud to have been on this committee!

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The Children's Literature Legacy Award winner is Carole Boston Weatherford.

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January 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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Every year on January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year marks the 80th anniversary. Share these graphic novels with young readers leading up to the day and all year long.

9 Middle Grade & YA Graphic Novels About the Holocaust

Every year on January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year marks the 80th anniversary. Share thes...

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January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM

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The impetus for representation has shifted, but it remains as real as ever, writes Edi Campbell. The work includes recognizing and promoting new voices in the field, so she's started this list featuring BIPOC debut authors. Suggestions welcome.

2025 Rubies

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Rubies, precious descendant stones set for the future with books that debut in ...

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January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, these 28 titles share the lives, struggles, and triumphs of notable Black Americans.

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