Nantucket Book Festival Announces 2025 Author Lineup

Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative journalist Bob Woodward is among the authors traveling to the island in June for the 2025 Nantucket Book Festival.

Festival organizers are announcing the author lineup today for the 14th edition of the annual event. In addition to Woodward, the 2025 Nantucket Book Festival will feature:

• Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and National Book Award winner for nonfiction Imani Perry;
• #1 New York Times best-selling author Carl Hiaasen, whose novel Bad Monkey was adapted into a series on Apple TV starring Vince Vaughn;
• Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, author of Memorial Days, a memoir of marriage and loss;
• Critically acclaimed poet and best-selling author of the anticipated novel, The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong;
• Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Cleavage and She’s Not There, the first best-selling work by a transgender American;
• Wally Lamb, the two-time Oprah’s Book Club author of I Know This Much is True and the upcoming novel, The River is Waiting.

Additional authors who will present June 12 – 15 are Meenakshi Ahamed, Richard Cary, Billy Costa and Jenny Johnson, hosts of Dining Play Book and authors of A Taste of Boston, Kim Coleman Foote, Lisa Genova, Patti Callahan Henry, Alice Hoffman, Molly Jong-Fast, Patrick Radden Keefe, Ann Leary, Betsy Lerner, Victor Luckerson, and Jason Reynolds, the award winning and best-selling author of more than a dozen books for young adults and middle graders and past Nantucket Book Foundation “Visiting Author in Schools.”

The list continues with Adam Ross, Loretta J. Ross, Chris Sheppard, Wright Thompson, Dawn Tripp, Jonathan Waterman, Nantucket summer resident Suzy Welch, author of 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea, and Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career, and the “Read with Jenna” author of Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson.

The Nantucket Book Festival Committee works to bring diverse voices to the island for the annual event, "ones that capture the full human experience and celebrate the transformative power of literature."

The full roster of renowned authors, representing a vast array of subjects and genres, from literary fiction, to poetry, to memoir, to self-help, can be found at this link.

The Nantucket Book Festival, now in its 14th year, has established itself as a major summer destination for book lovers with impressive and eclectic lineups of award-winning authors. The four-day Festival, June 12 - 15, offers author readings, panel discussions and social events in an informal atmosphere that encourages conversations between writers and readers. Most Festival events are free and held within walking distance of the ferries.

Full event schedule and tickets for the author dinner on Friday of the Festival (June 13^th) will be available at nantucketbookfestival.org in the next few weeks.