Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

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The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeThe Italian by Ann RadcliffeThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza ParsonsThe Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest by Karl Friedrich Kahlert
Jane Austen: The "Horrid" Novels
11 books — 26 voters
The Tribe by Bari WoodBlack Ambrosia by Elizabeth EngstromWhen Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth EngstromThe Nest by Gregory A. DouglasThe Auctioneer by Joan Samson
Valancourt Books' Paperbacks From Hell
21 books — 15 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellI, Claudius by Robert Graves
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century in Order
100 books — 3 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Complete Cosmicomics by Italo CalvinoSix Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo CalvinoThe Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (Harcourt / Peter Mendelsund Covers)
24 books — 6 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
809 books — 328 voters
Ice by Anna KavanChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. JohnsonThe Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonImpossible Object by Nicholas MosleyThe Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
British Experimental Novels 1940-1980
90 books — 43 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Recognitions by William GaddisWittgenstein’s Mistress by David MarksonJ R by William GaddisThe Tunnel by William H. Gass
Best Dalkey Archive Titles
152 books — 86 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"
1,016 books — 593 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
595 books — 306 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Exorcist by William Peter BlattyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Best Horror Books by People Other Than Stephen King
1,529 books — 1,498 voters

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 484 voters
Watchmen by Alan MooreBatman by Alan MooreThe Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanBatman by Frank MillerGhost World by Daniel Clowes
Best One-Off Graphic Novels
421 books — 122 voters


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