Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lisa (9 Lists)



The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Best Books About Animals
1,837 books — 1,854 voters
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Modern Gothic
709 books — 1,355 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCity of Thieves by David BenioffNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jews in Literature
883 books — 311 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseIshmael by Daniel QuinnThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,355 books — 14,519 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,783 voters

The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,694 voters
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya Angelou
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 199 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLord of the Flies by William GoldingEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckDracula by Bram Stoker
Best Books Ever
75,831 books — 281,780 voters