The Christy Award® Winners
2025 was a fantastic year to be a reader of Christian books. At this time of the year, we get to celebrate all the hard work authors and publishers put into their novels. The Christy Awards were established in 1999, and are given in recognition of excellence across all genres of Christian fiction. Browse the winners and finalists below! Congratulations to all the authors!
Book of the Year 2025
The Amplify Award for Christian Fiction
CATEGORY WINNERS
The Roads We Follow
by Nicole Deese
WINNER - Contemporary Romance
Between the Sound and Sea
by Amanda Cox
WINNER - General Fiction
All We Thought We Knew
by Michelle Shocklee
WINNER (TIE) - Historical
Born of Gilded Mountains
by Amanda Dykes
WINNER (TIE) - Historical
As Sure as the Sea
by Jamie Ogle
WINNER - Historical Romance
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue
by Jaime Jo Wright
WINNER - Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
A Daffodil in the Dress (within Something Borrowed)
by Susie Finkbeiner
WINNER - Short Form
Memoria
by J.J. Fischer
WINNER - Speculative
The Chaos Grid
by Lyndsey Lewellen
WINNER - Young Adult
