Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Andy (11 Lists)



Falling Angel by William HjortsbergOur Lady of Darkness by Fritz LeiberThe Tenant by Roland ToporThe Face That Must Die by Ramsey CampbellThe Tribe by Bari Wood
Horror in the City
99 books — 19 voters
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Phyllis FraserThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E.F. BensonBest Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Best Ghost Story Anthologies
15 books — 8 voters

The Elementals by Michael McDowell
New Editions of Vintage Horror
42 books — 26 voters
The Shaft by David J. SchowCellars by John ShirleyThe Search for Joseph Tully by William H. HallahanThe Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey CampbellThe Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell
Gritty Urban Horror Novels
17 books — 2 voters

Germinal by Émile ZolaThe Jungle by Upton SinclairCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyMcTeague by Frank NorrisL'Assommoir by Émile Zola
Naturalism and Realism
164 books — 23 voters
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon PadgettIn the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...The Grimscribe's Puppets by Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Ligottian
58 books — 22 voters

Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatThe Lime Works by Thomas BernhardThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory
Read Between My Nocturnal Wanderings
40 books — 4 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Not So Happily-Ever-After
779 books — 1,064 voters

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Best Existential Fiction
445 books — 761 voters
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters