Hello, friends! Gosh, it's been a while.
Our team of Randos has been reading hard and pondering even harder, and we're now ready to announce the award titles shortlists for the year's most coveted* and prestigious** literary awards...
The 2025 Rando Awards!
Ready? Let's jam.
*maybe?
*lol
We try! Also, congratulations on the nomination!
Double congratulations!
Congratulations on the nomination, and thank you for your stories!
It's our pleasure, and congratulations on making the shortlist!
We'll now return to our libraries, TBR piles and dank caves, and decide on our winners! Each winning author will receive a Randos Trophy in the mail. Keep an eye out in the coming weeks, and thank you all for your patience!
The 2025 Award for The Pub's Most Delightful Read One Last Stop, by @caseymcquiston.bsky.social The Dream Hotel, by @lailalalami.com Audition for the Fox, by Martin Cahill Meet Me At The Crossroads, by @megiddings.bsky.social Vampires At Sea, by @pickyourpotions.bsky.social
The 2025 Award for The Pub's Most Delightful Read
One Last Stop, by @caseymcquiston.bsky.social
The Dream Hotel, by @lailalalami.com
Audition for the Fox, by Martin Cahill
Meet Me At The Crossroads, by @megiddings.bsky.social
Vampires At Sea, by @pickyourpotions.bsky.social
The 2025 Rando Award For Social Justice In The Streets, Monster Fucking In The Sheets (cont)
But Not Too Bold, by @hachepueyo.bsky.social
Red, The Wolf, And The Woods, by @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social
The 2025 Rando Award For Social Justice In The Streets, Monster Fucking In The Sheets A Marriage Of Undead Inconvenience, by Stephanie Burgis Bull Moon Rising, by Ruby Dixon Strange Love, by Ann Aguirre But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo Red, The Wolf, And The Woods, by Scarlett Gale
The 2025 Rando Award For Social Justice In The Streets, Monster Fucking In The Sheets
A Marriage Of Undead Inconvenience, by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Bull Moon Rising, by Ruby Dixon
Strange Love, by @annaguirre.bsky.social
...(cont)
The 2025 Rando Award for A Warm Hug of a Book The Spellshop, by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, by Sangu Mandanna Sword Crossed, by @freyamarske.bsky.social The Lost Story, by Meg Schafer Wooing the Witch Queen, by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social
The 2025 Rando Award for A Warm Hug of a Book
The Spellshop, by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, by Sangu Mandanna
Sword Crossed, by @freyamarske.bsky.social
The Lost Story, by Meg Schafer
Wooing the Witch Queen, by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social
The 2025 Rando Award for I Would Read All The Books They Haven't Written Yet The Lotus Empire, by @tashasuri.bsky.social Bury Your Gays, by @chucktingle.bsky.social Heavenly Tyrant, by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social The Martian Contingency, by @maryrobinettekowal.com Katabasis, by @rfkuang.bsky.social
The 2025 Rando Award for I Would Read All The Books They Haven't Written Yet
The Lotus Empire, by @tashasuri.bsky.social
Bury Your Gays, by @chucktingle.bsky.social
Heavenly Tyrant, by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social
The Martian Contingency, by @maryrobinettekowal.com Katabasis, by @rfkuang.bsky.social
The 2025 Award for Quests Against The Kyriarchy with a Side-Quest Into One's Own Identity Toward Eternity by @antonhur.com Deep is the Fen by @liliwilkinson.bsky.social Upright Women Wanted by @sarahgailey.bsky.social Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao Emergent Properties by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
The 2025 Award for Quests Against The Kyriarchy with a Side-Quest Into One's Own Identity
Toward Eternity by @antonhur.com
Deep is the Fen by @liliwilkinson.bsky.social
Upright Women Wanted by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Emergent Properties by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
The 2025 Rando Award for Phew, Didn't See THAT Coming! Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennet The Saint of Bright Doors, by @vajra.me The Tyranny of Faith, by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social Blood over Bright Haven, by @M.L. Wang
The 2025 Rando Award for Phew, Didn't See THAT Coming!
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennet
The Saint of Bright Doors, by @vajra.me
The Tyranny of Faith, by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social
Blood over Bright Haven, by @M.L. Wang
Hello, friends! Gosh, it's been a while.
Our team of Randos has been reading hard and pondering even harder, and we're now ready to announce the award titles shortlists for the year's most coveted* and prestigious** literary awards...
The 2025 Rando Awards!
Ready? Let's jam.
*maybe?
*lol
As we approach the end of 2025, our team of Randos is looking for new judges to join the crew!
Do you love reading?
Like, REALLY love reading?
Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year?
If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!
With all our winners' trophies now having landed on doorsteps, it's time for the Randos crew to take a breather.
We'll keep quietly reading and falling in love with books for the next couple months, then kick this all off again in late 2025!
Congratulations!
(there is, in fact, one more award we'll announce soon. Just dotting i's and crossing t's).
Thank you again to everyone who took part in the second annual Rando Awards and congratulations to all the winners and nominees. We love your stories!
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE GENDERVERSES
- WINNER: In Universes, by Emet North
- Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg
- The Unraveling, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- The Space Between Worlds, by Micaiah Johnson
- The Husbands, by Holly Gramazio
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR THE BEST OF THE FIRST
- WINNER: Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
- The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
- The Sunbearer Trials, by Aiden Thomas
- The Wrath & the Dawn, by Renee Aidieh
- The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR NORDIC FEELS
- WINNER: The Night Guest, by Hildur Knútsdóttir
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell
- Leech, by Hiron Ennes
- Quarter Share, by Nathan Lowell
- What Feasts at Night, by T. Kingfisher
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR REMINDING ME I LOVE READING
- WINNER: Consort of Fire, by Kit Rocha
- The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
- Rules for Ghosting, by Shelly Jay Shore
- Witch of Wild Things, by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- Slippery Creatures, by KJ Charles
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
- WINNER: The Museum of Human History, by Rebekah Bergman
- Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K. Chess
- The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez - Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway
- Time's Agent, by Brenda Peynado
...
- How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster, by Marie Cardno
- Stalked By the Kraken, by Lillian Lark
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR SOCIAL COMMENTARY IN THE STREETS, MONSTER FUCKING IN THE SHEETS
- WINNER: Impromptu Match, by Lily Mayne
- Morning Glory Milking Farm, by C.M. Nacosta
- Jumping the Shark: Matched with the Space Shark, by Ash Raven
(nominees cont...)
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR OOF, RIGHT IN THE EMOTIONS
- WINNER: The Blacktongue Thief, by Christopher Buehlman
- The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Hench, by Natalie Walschotts
- Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
THE 2024 RANDO AWARD FOR WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY
- WINNER: The Marigold, by Andrew F Sullivan
- Who Gets to be Smart, by Bri Lee
- The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Faithless and the Damned, by Sev Romero
- The Winnowing Draw, by Michael Tichy
Friends and fellow readers, we're happy to announce the winners of the 2024 Rando Awards!
Our sincere congratulations to all our winners. Thank you for writing the books that kept us up past our bedtimes all through 2024. Your trophies are already on the way!
🧵 of all winners and nominees below!
Hi Terry! This might be a little out of left field, but I figured this was the most direct way to drop you a line. Would you be available for a 30 sec chat about an indie book award?