1925 in literature

The year 1925 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway will depart on the trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises.
• Ford Madox Ford publishes No More Parades. It is the second book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
• The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

New books

• Sherwood Anderson - Dark Laughter
• André Billy - L'Ange qui pleure
• Johan Bojer - The Emigrants
• James Boyd - Drums
• Louis Bromfield - Possession
• Mihail Bulgakov - The White Guard
• Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys
• Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne - Hangman's House
• Willa Cather - The Professor's House
• Blaise Cendrars - Sutter's Gold
• Ivy Compton-Burnett - Pastors and Masters
• Warwick Deeping - Sorrell and Son
• John Dos Passos - Manhattan Transfer
• Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
• Lion Feuchtwanger - Jud Süß translated as Power
• Charles Finger - Tales from Silver Lands
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
• Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer
• Ford Madox Ford - No More Parades
• David Garnett - The Sailor's Return
• André Gide - Les faux-monnayeurs
• Ellen Glasgow - Barren Ground
• Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
• Aldous Huxley - Those Barren Leaves
• Franz Kafka - The Trial
• Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
• Walter Lippmann - The Phantom Public
• Harry F. Liscomb - The Prince of Washington Square
• Anita Loos - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
• Eugenio Montale - Ossi di seppia
• Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer
• Baroness Orczy
  • The Miser of Maida Vale
  • A Question of Temptation
• Marcel Proust - Albertine disparue
• Romain Rolland - The Game of Love and Death
• Dorothy Scarborough - The Wind
• Gertrude Stein - The Making of Americans
• James Stevens - Paul Bunyan
• Sigrid Undset - The Axe
• Carl Van Vechten - Firecrackers
• Hugo Wast - Stone Desert
• William Carlos Williams - In the American Grain
• P. G. Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves
• Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
• Elinor Wylie - The Venetian Glass Nephew

New drama

• J. R. Ackerley - The Prisoners of War
• Arnolt Bronnen - The Bird of Youth
• Mikhail Bulgakov - Madame Zoyka
• Noël Coward - Hay Fever (first performed) and Fallen Angels
• Federico García Lorca - The Billy-Club Puppets
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal - The Tower
• Zora Neale Hurston - Color Struck
• George Kelly - Craig's Wife
• John Howard Lawson - Processional
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Beelzebub Sonata
• Carl Zuckmayer - The Merry Vineyard

Poetry

• F. W. Harvey - September and Other Poems
• T. S. Eliot - The Hollow Men

Non-fiction

• Max Aitken - Politicians and the Press
• Edwin Burtt - The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
• Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
• J. R. R. Tolkien - The Devil's Coach Horses

Births

• January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist & author (died 1995)
• January 8 - James Saunders, English dramatist (died 2004)
• January 11 - William Styron, American writer (died 2006)
• January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author & rightist political activist (died 1970)
• January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Catholic priest & poet
• February 25 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator & writer (died 2000)
• March 14 - John Wain, English writer (died 1994)
• March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, American author (died 1964)
• August 17 - John Hawkes, American novelist (died 1998)
• August 28 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
• September 4 - Forrest Carter, American speechwriter & author (died 1979)
• October 3 - Gore Vidal, American writer
• October 8 - Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian writer & dissident (died 1997)
• October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist & screenwriter
• October 26 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer & artist (died 2007)

Deaths

• January 31 - George Washington Cable, American writer (born 1844)
• May 12 - Amy Lowell, American poet (born 1874)
• June 6 - Pierre Louÿs, French poet (born 1870)
• July 16 - Pyotr Gnedich, Russian writer (born 1855)
• July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (born 1859)
• December 5 - Władysław Reymont, Polish author (born 1868)
• December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (born 1895)

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Scott, The Portrait of Zelide
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
• Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber, So Big