Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

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The Unpersuadables by Will StorrAn American Sickness by Elisabeth RosenthalThe Undoing Project by Michael LewisThe Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas LevensonThe Social Life of DNA by Alondra Nelson
FiveThirtyEight's "Sparks" Podcast Books
8 books — 3 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
337 books — 274 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,782 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,934 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Young Adult Books
13,121 books — 80,161 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,669 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1,055 books — 1,147 voters

Walking Wild by Jose A NevesA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Some Great Books on Nature
255 books — 146 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,184 books — 1,080 voters