Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

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



Dune by Frank HerbertSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury1984 by George Orwell
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,328 books — 24,579 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardA Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
84 books — 1,615 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,731 books — 25,955 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
625 books — 2,758 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Unique Narrators
403 books — 347 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 990 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonParadise Lost by John MiltonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,592 books — 13,121 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,780 voters
Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan
Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters
1,963 books — 5,994 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,355 books — 14,515 voters