Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paul Tupper (21 Lists)



Readings in Games and Information by Eric RasmusenThe Game's Afoot! Game Theory in Myth and Paradox by Alexander MehlmannGame Theory by Matthew Jared DevosGame Theory by Ken BinmoreRock, Paper, Scissors by Len Fisher
Game Theory for Beginners
5 books — 1 voter
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
Best Books About Genre Fiction
59 books — 16 voters

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Best Books About Nanotechnology
182 books — 659 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas AdamsLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Best Comedic Science Ficttion Books
610 books — 1,189 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,592 books — 13,121 voters
The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica HughesA Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder by James De MilleObjects of Worship by Claude LalumièreHominids by Robert J. Sawyer
Best Canadian Speculative Fiction
274 books — 64 voters

The Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiSpin by Robert Charles WilsonReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,194 books — 8,934 voters
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,516 books — 15,088 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleFor the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz
Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
367 books — 237 voters

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Best True Crime
1,339 books — 1,886 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,666 voters

Beowulf by Unknown
Favorite Poorly Rated Books
1,519 books — 261 voters
Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe House on the Borderland by William Hope HodgsonAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Cult fction
359 books — 205 voters

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Most Amusing Books Ever
35 books — 17 voters
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,187 books — 11,264 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love
2,081 books — 2,691 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,104 voters

Four Colors Suffice by Robin J. Wilson
Best Books About Mathematics
449 books — 666 voters
Gateway by Frederik PohlThe Manticore by Robertson Davies
Psychoanalysis in non-technical books (memoirs, novels, short stories, etc.)
18 books — 12 voters

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia NasarI Want to be a Mathematician by Paul R. HalmosThe Honors Class by Ben YandellIndiscrete Thoughts by Fabrizio Palombi Gian-Carlo...The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
Mathematical Biography
62 books — 44 voters