Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paladin (30 Lists)



Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,979 books — 1,276 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best Audiobooks
1,558 books — 1,102 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,794 books — 6,332 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Historical Fiction
7,326 books — 25,532 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
182 books — 106 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Books to Read On a Rainy Day
766 books — 452 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Most Comforting Books (The Literary Version of Bread Pudding)
1,290 books — 929 voters
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud
2,054 books — 2,341 voters

SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
3,988 books — 2,003 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,117 books — 2,348 voters

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Most Influential Books
1,480 books — 5,281 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books Ever
75,832 books — 281,773 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyNever Cry Wolf by Farley MowatThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyThe Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
Best Environmental Books
1,070 books — 1,199 voters
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigGhost Rider by Neil Peart
Best Motorcycle Books
131 books — 182 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best Survival Stories
1,153 books — 1,608 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,117 books — 1,846 voters

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
440 books — 590 voters
The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,064 voters

Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price by The Church of Jesus Christ ...
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,877 voters
The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer
Books for Bird Lovers
524 books — 207 voters

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Swashbucklers
559 books — 496 voters
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Best Humorous Books
4,303 books — 7,858 voters

The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
Mountain Man Historical Fiction
6 books — 4 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,515 books — 2,702 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
1,018 books — 2,560 voters
The Power of the Dog by Thomas SavageDancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan DoigButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Literary Westerns
283 books — 386 voters

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,814 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,592 books — 13,121 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryDancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan DoigAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerButcher's Crossing by John WilliamsA River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Best Westerns
1,373 books — 1,496 voters
The Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkCorelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
World War II Fiction
1,279 books — 2,009 voters