Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gary (22 Lists)



A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownCommon Sense by Thomas Paine
Best American History Books
2,110 books — 2,478 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinOn Fire by Naomi KleinFalter by Bill McKibben
Best Popular Climate Books on Goodreads
187 books — 33 voters

Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams
Reading Women Challenge 2021 #17 Woman in Politics
71 books — 43 voters
Joyland by Stephen KingThe Comedy is Finished by Donald E. Westlake
Hard Case Crime - Imprint
131 books — 46 voters

The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard LaymonColdheart Canyon by Clive BarkerHeart-Shaped Box by Joe HillThe Everlasting by Tim LebbonDoctor Sleep by Stephen King
Horror Greats - 2000 and Beyond!
129 books — 51 voters
The Great Dinosaur Debate by Robert T. BakkerDigging Dinosaurs by Jack HornerDinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay GouldDynamics of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Giants by R. McNeill AlexanderDiscovering Dinosaurs by Mark Norell
The Best Non-fiction Dinosaur Books
144 books — 98 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein1984 by George OrwellChe Guevara by Jon Lee AndersonThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Best Left-Texts
669 books — 359 voters
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe HillThe Traveling Vampire Show by Richard LaymonJoyland by Stephen King
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
483 books — 1,248 voters

Hegemony or Survival by Noam ChomskyFailed States by Noam ChomskyThe Capitalism Papers by Jerry ManderCapital by Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Emancipatory Left
130 books — 62 voters
1984 by George OrwellStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
All Sorts Favourites
1,511 books — 1,273 voters

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
2013 Speculative Fiction
119 books — 93 voters
The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey HaasBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Government Cover-ups
349 books — 103 voters

Satan in St Mary's by Paul DohertyEye of the Needle by Ken FollettThe Sun Over Breda by Arturo Pérez-RevertePurity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Best Historical Mystery
2,060 books — 4,508 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Laureates
660 books — 566 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.On the Road by Jack KerouacThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Best Books Ever
75,719 books — 281,547 voters
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Best Alice Hoffman Novel
39 books — 332 voters

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownFantasies of the Master Race by Ward Churchill
Books White People Need to Read
1,302 books — 1,568 voters
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen KingChristine by Stephen KingNeedful Things by Stephen KingThe Dark Half by Stephen KingThe Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Worst Stephen King books
62 books — 482 voters

Tell-All by Chuck PalahniukBlack Hills by Dan SimmonsA Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol OatesA Dark Matter by Peter Straub
Can't Wait Books of 2010
1,233 books — 10,137 voters
Godless by Ann CoulterHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann CoulterSlander by Ann CoulterThe Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh
Books I Have No Intention of Reading
1,637 books — 5,996 voters

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding Fathers
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,392 books — 119,637 voters
1984 by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,771 voters