the 2025-2026 tome society book award

Announcing the 2025-2026 Tome Society Book Award List! 
Tome Student Literacy Society is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025-2026 Tome Society Book Award! This year’s selections are packed with unforgettable stories, diverse voices, and page-turning adventures.  We are also excited to announce the expansion of the Junior Tome Book Award list to 12 titles. We can’t wait for you to Embrace the Journey and read these incredible books! 
Tome Society (grades 9-12)

• Dust by Alison Stine
  
• The Art of Us by Julie Wright
  
• The Smoke That Thunders by Erhu Kome
  
• The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd Jones
  
• The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
  
• Casters and Crowns by Elizabeth Lowham 
  
• Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell
  
• Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen
  
• Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier
  
• Sweetest Darkness by Leslie Lutz*
  
• The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
  
• Our Divine Mischief by Hanna C. Howard
  
• The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie
  
• Rhythm & Muse by India Hill Brown
  
• The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
  
• Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho 
  
• Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur 
  
• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber*
  
• The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse
  
• Stay Dead by April Henry
  

Junior Tome (grades 6-8)

• Slugfest by Gordon Korman
  
• The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly*
  
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
  
• The Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole
  
• Westfallen by Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares
  
• One Wrong Step by Jennifer Nielsen
  
• Jupiter Rising by Gary D. Schmidt*
  
• Perry Homer Ruins Everything by Beth Vrabel
  
• Not If You Break Up With Me First by G.F. Miller
  
• The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys 
  
• Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  
• Wild Poppies by Haya Saleh 
  

Club Tome (grades 2-5)

• The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
  
• Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd 
  
• Olivetti by Allie Millington
  
• The Race for the Ruby Turtle by Stephen Bramucci 
  
• The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
  
• The Secret Language of Birds by Lynne Kelly
  
• Thea and the Mischief Makers by Tracy Badua
  
• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass*
  
• The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers*
  
• Operation Happy by Jenni L. Walsh*
  

Titles denoted with an asterisk (*) will not be tested as part of the Reading Bowl competition.