Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Marie-Therese (12 Lists)



Under the Poppy by Kathe KojaNot Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
Queer Fantastika
106 books — 32 voters
Light by M. John HarrisonStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinNova by Samuel R. DelanyThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
883 books — 484 voters

Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari KawabataThe Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki ShikibuTales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda AkinariThe Confessions of Lady Nijō by Lady NijōDeath in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
Best Japanese Books
770 books — 3,247 voters
It Happened One Autumn by Lisa KleypasPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRainbird's Revenge by Marion ChesneyMemoirs of a Hoyden by Joan SmithThe Book of True Desires by Betina Krahn
Starchy Hero Gets Un-Starched
428 books — 453 voters

Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories by Taeko KōnoThe House Spirit and Other Stories by Kanoko OkamotoTranslucent Tree by Nobuko TakagiThe Budding Tree by Aiko Kitahara
Literature by Japanese Women
157 books — 151 voters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberPossession by A.S. ByattBlack Rainbow by Barbara MichaelsThe French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Best Victorian Historical Fiction Set In Britain
296 books — 648 voters

The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros
Beauty and the Beast
700 books — 1,942 voters
Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
SCARS ARE SEXY- Books with imperfect/disfigured/disabled heroes
1,936 books — 2,494 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëIt Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
100 Historical Romances To Read Before You Die
1,345 books — 1,582 voters
A Radical Arrangement by Jane AshfordMemoirs of a Hoyden by Joan SmithSweet Masquerade by Marion ChesneyGather Ye Rosebuds by Joan Smith
Traditional Regency
496 books — 227 voters

Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale
Historical Romances of 2010
113 books — 302 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Female Man by Joanna RussAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Best Feminist Young Adult Books
1,321 books — 1,341 voters