2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Action
“A twisty and engaging international thriller.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Parents of a boy with extraordinary intelligence desperately attempt to flee a disintegrating state with their young son while the Stasi leadership invokes the entire power of the state to prevent them.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Action
Torn between the relationships developed in the Philippines, a young Navy sailor struggles to save his body and soul during the period from 1898 to 1904.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Adventure
“This book helps you feel the rewards of working hard and building a community.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
The sites held together by foreman Mike Stone all have problems. But they are about to have a much bigger one: The company is weeks away from going broke.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Adventure
Adolf Hitler’s darkest secret crosses paths with the time-traveling Bad Love Gang on their quest to save the life of one of their members from a fate of terminal breast cancer. Can they triumph?
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction, Adventure
When the villainous VORK employs the most evil demon of all to manipulate Team HOPE behind the scenes, they start to wonder if they are participants—or prey.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Collection
“A solid-gold collection made for the music lover in all of us.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
These aren’t so much stories about the blues as they are stories about regular people who are connected to the music through the manner in which the blues have spoken to them and shaped their lives.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Collection
This powerful collection of diverse stories offers a thought-provoking mix of emotional struggles, cultural clashes, and transformative moments, delving into the complexities of life, love, faith, and identity.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Contemporary
“A truly rewarding journey told with smooth, gentle storytelling.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Revisiting the small town of Sorel, Jhana regains contact with the people and places that shaped her life. Jhana knows that change is inevitable, but now she must recall everyone and everything that she left behind.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Contemporary
Jack was never “right,” but that’s a lot of what made him magnetic to other people. The fact that the world left him behind is the reason someone needs to tell his story.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction, Contemporary
Wedding stories, accidents, unraveling relationships, new friends, new neighbors, and a black-clad stranger intertwine in this story of middle-aged friendships, love, a dog training academy, and nights around the fire pit.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Historical
“Cultural enrichment and family drama blended into a poignant tale where discovery comes from the inside out.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
After a biomedical researcher returns to China to transfer her late grandmother’s apartment to her male cousin so he can marry, her interracial marriage in Boston begins to unravel.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction, Historical
In 1986 Austin, Texas, when Stephanie’s trust fund evaporates, crushing her college dreams, Lauren sacrifices all to give her a future—only to face a bittersweet twist that echoes the past and changes everything.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction, Historical
The inspiring, surprising, and remarkable true story of Harry L. Hopkins—one ordinary man who played a leading and pivotal role in helping America overcome the Great Depression, defeat Fascism, and win World War II.
2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction, Historical
In this evocative retelling of the real-life German-born Jewish immigrants known as the Ritchie Boys, That Such Men Live is a gritty and emotional story of sacrifice, war, and maintaining hope when all seems lost.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction, Historical
Revenge, redemption and catharsis collide head on with recent European history. The thrilling historical fiction novel Perestroika is as much a lens into the present as an exciting epitome for the past.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction, Literary
“A sleek look at romance in our modern world.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Noel Walker faces his biggest challenge yet when someone nicknamed Faded tags him with two words: “Hey Daddy.” As Faded’s mask falls away and their two real-life worlds collide, will the truth change Noel’s life forever?
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