The 2025 Best Indie Book Award® 1

The Flayer

🏆 2025 BIBA® Novella: Horror Winner! Someone is slaughtering the residents of Felton, a suburb of Anywhere, USA. It’s a flat and largely unremarkable place, and the powers that be strive to keep it that way. However, when the latest body in a string of gruesome murders is discovered by Kyle Bloch, an aspiring journalist,…

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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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Rat Race to Riches: A Roadmap to Financial Freedom

🏆 2025 BIBA® Money Management and Investing Winner! Rat Race to Riches is a compelling narrative about growing up in a poor, first-generation immigrant family and realising the dream of financial freedom. After losing his job, with a mortgage to pay and a baby on the way, the author discovered that an education and a…

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It Was A Riot

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner! Edward “Eddy” Turner’s entire life is a battlefield. Growing up gay in the violent and poverty-stricken streets of East London, Eddy’s childhood is haunted by the shadow of bullying, rejection, and his domineering football hooligan father. Enrolling in medical school is his only lifeline – but it only catapults…

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The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Christian Memoir Winner! Weaving his personal story with his work as the international president of Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families, & Friends, Nathan Kitchen’s memoir is a must-read for those seeking to understand queer joy in the face of rejecting actions and words. It is a triumph of the queer spirit seen…

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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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Deeply Human: The Science and Soul of Emotional Healing

🏆 2025 BIBA® Self-Help Winner! Deeply Human is a book for people who have persevered through stress, silence, shame, and the pain of feeling misunderstood. Maybe you’ve had to be the strong one. A person who listens more than they speak. Someone who’s done so much to help others and ignored their own needs. Perhaps…

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A Life Full of Quarks

🏆 2025 BIBA® Literary/Non-Genre Fiction Winner! This darkly comic tale of science and family tells the story of John Chant, who in childhood is entangled with dinosaurs, a robot, an alien astronaut, a particle accelerator, giant monsters, quantum superposition, and a malevolent experimental chimpanzee. After exile and many swerves, he ends up a professor of…

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Hope for Moms: It’s Tough Out There, But So Are You

🏆 2025 BIBA® Parenting Winner! Many of us did everything we could to prepare for becoming moms, but there just wasn’t any way to know what might lie ahead. Most of us have, at one point or another, looked around and wondered if we are alone in our parenting challenges. Hope for Moms offers a…

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Behind the Star

🏆 2025 BIBA® Vocational Guidance Winner! In the shadows of Hollywood’s spotlight, Chad Gregory reveals a powerful truth: greatness lies not in fame, but in the relentless pursuit of mastery. “Behind the Star” is more than a guide to the unsung art of stand-in work—it’s a motivational manifesto for anyone striving to unlock their potential.…

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