Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

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



Blowback by Christopher Simpson
After the Fall of the Third Reich (Non Fiction)
161 books — 23 voters
Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
Best Lesbian Graphic Novels
249 books — 235 voters

Landing by Emma DonoghueRent Girl by Michelle Tea
100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
880 books — 1,146 voters
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'NeillLeaving Las Vegas by John O'BrienNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,906 voters

Candy Girl by Diablo CodyStrip City by Lily BuranaAmerican Rose by Karen Abbott
Bump 'N Grind - Books about Burlesque and Striptease
69 books — 60 voters
The Devil of Nanking by Mo HayderReal World by Natsuo KirinoGrotesque by Natsuo KirinoOut by Natsuo KirinoOcean of Words by Ha Jin
Best Books on Asia
994 books — 817 voters

Shakespeare After All by Marjorie GarberShakespeare and Co. by Stanley WellsShakespeare's Lives by Samuel Schoenbaum
Best Books About Shakespeare
261 books — 165 voters
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Best Books Involving Sexwork (Fiction and Nonfiction)
401 books — 193 voters

Down and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellThe Bone Woman by Clea KoffThe Trouble with the Congo by Severine AutesserreOn Crimes and Punishments by Cesare BeccariaTorture and Democracy by Darius M. Rejali
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
624 books — 418 voters