Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Madeleine (13 Lists)



Pachinko by Min Jin LeeSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardExit West by Mohsin HamidDifficult Women by Roxane GayThe Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anticipated / Best 2017 Literary Fiction
171 books — 123 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Stone Sky by N.K. JemisinAllegedly by Tiffany D. JacksonExit West by Mohsin HamidAmerican War by Omar El Akkad
Best Books of 2017
1,734 books — 3,081 voters

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
My Country, the Enemy
393 books — 341 voters
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverMy Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
Literature of Social Change
433 books — 314 voters

Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordThe Tricking of Freya by Christina SunleyWench by Dolen Perkins-ValdezBrooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Best Books of 2009
1,769 books — 6,937 voters
And Tango Makes Three by Justin RichardsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,382 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Best Young Adult Books
13,105 books — 80,156 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,354 books — 1,779 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,378 voters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Best Books of 2007
1,114 books — 993 voters

Children of the River by Linda Crew
The Worst Books of All Time
8,099 books — 19,876 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodLove Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,258 books — 2,434 voters