Reading Lists for Every Reader.

Curated annually by librarians and literary experts at the Georgia Center for the Book — a Library of Congress affiliate — these titles celebrate Georgia authors and books deeply rooted in the state's culture, history, and landscape.

Every year, Georgia school and public librarians choose twenty outstanding young adult titles. Then teens across the state read and vote — making this the only major reading award chosen entirely by the students themselves. These are the 2025–2026 nominees.

Since 1968, Georgia's children have voted on the books they love best. The Georgia Children's Book Awards operate in two categories — picture books for grades K–4, and chapter books for grades 4–8. These are the current nominees, chosen by teachers, media specialists, and librarians across the state.

The most talked-about, most acclaimed fiction of 2025 — drawn from the New York Times, NPR, TIME, the National Book Award, and fifty-eight other major critical lists. These are the novels that readers and critics agreed were essential.

History, memoir, ideas, journalism — these are the nonfiction books critics and readers agreed were most worth your time in 2024 and 2025. Books that change how you see the world.

Not a list of books only for men — but books that speak especially to the male experience, or that men consistently recommend to one another. History, adventure, self-knowledge, and the kind of fiction that doesn't get talked about enough.

Books that speak to female experience with power and precision — literary fiction, eye-opening nonfiction, and the kind of stories that make you call your best friend the moment you finish. For every kind of woman reader.

Sometimes you don't want a broad "best of" — you want the exact right books for a particular mood, moment, or question. These themed lists are for exactly that.