Nominate a Book for the 2025 Christianity Today Book Awards

Dear publishers and authors,

Each year, Christianity Today honors a set of outstanding books encompassing a variety of subjects and genres. The CT Book Awards will be announced in December at christianitytoday.com. They also will be featured in the January/February 2026 issue of CT and promoted in several CT newsletters. In addition, publishers will have the opportunity to participate in a promotion organized by CT’s marketing team.

Here are this year’s award categories:

1. Apologetics/Evangelism

2a. Biblical Studies

2b. Bible and Devotional

3a. Children

3b. Young Adults

4. Christian Living / Spiritual Formation

5. The Church / Pastoral Leadership

6. Culture, Poetry, and the Arts

7. Fiction

8. History/Biography

9. Marriage, Family, and Singleness

10. Missions / The Global Church

11. Politics and Public Life

12a. Theology (Popular)

12b. Theology (Academic)

In addition, CT will be naming a Book of the Year, chosen from the entire pool of nominees by a panel of CT editors.

Nominations

To be eligible for nomination, a book must be published between November 1, 2024, and October 31, 2025. We are looking for scholarly and popular-level works and everything in between. A diverse panel of scholars, pastors, and other informed readers will evaluate the books.

Authors and publishers can nominate as many books as they wish, and each nominee can be submitted in multiple categories. For larger publishers (those with 50 or more employees), there is a $40 entry fee for each nomination (defined as each title submitted in each category). For smaller publishers (those with fewer than 50 employees), the entry fee is $20 per nomination. And for self-published authors, the entry fee is $10 per nomination.

To enter your nominations, click here to access the submission form (which will require logging into a Google account). You will be asked to include contact information, the title and categories for each nominee, PDF attachments, and an estimate of the resulting nomination fees, based on the payment scale mentioned above. We will verify these totals and begin sending payment invoices in early June.

Finalist books

If your book is chosen as one of the four finalists in any category, we will contact you and ask that you send a copy of the book directly to each judge assigned to that category. We will provide mailing addresses for each judge.