The 2025 Best Indie Book Award® 1

No Easy Way Back

🏆 2025 BIBA® Action Winner! A GRITTY NEO-WESTERN THRILLER FOR FANS OF CHARACTER-DRIVEN THRILLERS LIKE ORPHAN X AND MODERN WESTERNS LIKE WIND RIVER Graham Hayes has never fit in—not in the life he left behind, and not in the one he’s trying to build. After years with the Regimental Reconnaissance Company—an elite special operations unit—he…

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The Little Adventure of Erig the Earwig

🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s (Ages 5-8) Winner! Step into the enchanting world of The Little Adventures of Erig the Earwig, an award-winning children’s book where nature’s tiniest creatures embark on the grandest adventures! Join Erig, a brave and curious young earwig, and best friend Bob, a clever copper beetle, as they explore the magical Long…

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Embracing the Cold

🏆 2025 BIBA® Travel/Winter Camping Preparation Winner! Winter isn’t just a season to endure—it’s an opportunity to discover resilience and immerse yourself in nature’s raw beauty. Are you ready to embrace it? Imagine navigating icy roads, camping beneath snow-laden trees, and embarking on breathtaking expeditions into the wilderness. Embracing the Cold: A Guide to Solo…

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Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey Into IVF and Surrogacy

🏆 2025 BIBA® Pregnancy IVF Winner! In Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, embarks on a profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy that combines intimate memoir with…

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No Woman Left Behind: A Journey of Hope to Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Medical Memoir Winner! No Woman Left Behind is the unlikely story of how one woman left Madison Avenue to tackle the global maternal health crisis head-on. Fistula Foundation CEO Kate Grant’s new memoir takes readers across the globe and explores the systemic challenges that perpetuate maternal health disparities, including gender inequality,…

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10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure

🏆 2025 BIBA® Self-Help Adventure Planning Winner! Create your own rules for an adventurous life! Embark on an extraordinary journey across the United States on a tandem bicycle with “10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure.” This heartwarming and insightful book explores the highs and lows of adventure cycling, unforgettable moments, and self-discovery after divorce…

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Unexpected Detour: Courage and Intrigue in Wartime San Francisco

🏆 2025 BIBA® Historical Fiction Winner! When bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter’s Midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fiancé Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out. Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye…

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Bakke’s Shakespeare: Macbeth

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Classic Literature Winner! Fair is foul, and foul is fair . . . and nothing is quite what it seems. Meet Macbeth, a brave and power-hungry Scottish lord, who charts a murderous course to the throne after receiving an auspicious prophecy from a trio of witches. Meet Lady Macbeth, his ruthless…

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Looking for Trouble

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: African American Memoir Winner! An incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as destiny…

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Comfort Sequels: The Psychology of Movie Sequels from the 80s and 90s

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Memoir Winner! This sneaky memoir celebrates the campiness and nostalgia of some of the more infamous (some might say underappreciated) sequels of the eighties and nineties, with brand-new interviews with cast and creative team members, while at the same time emphatically conveying the restorative power these films had on the author’s traumatic…

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