(1 Dec 2025) The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2025 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. This year’s list features 343 books and digital resources from 103 publishers.
Bill Mickey, Choice’s editorial director, remarked, “The OATs represent the best of the thousands of reviews Choice published throughout 2025. Congratulations to the authors, editors, and publishers for producing such amazing works of scholarship.”
As in previous years, Choice editors will present a weekly series of “sneak peeks” into the 2025 OAT list, providing an overview of the year’s best academic nonfiction in select subject areas. While the Outstanding Academic Titles list in its entirety is available only to Choice magazine and Choice Reviews subscribers, these curated mini-lists remain available to non-subscribers via email newsletter and on the Choice360.org website.
Visit the Choice website at http://choice360.org each week for a new 2025 OATs mini-list featuring themes such as top 10 titles, subject-specific selections, or timely collections. If you prefer to receive our weekly list snippet in your inbox, sign up for the Outstanding Academic Titles newsletter at www.choice360.org/newsletter-signup.
Source: Choice
