Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brian (10 Lists)



Network Effect by Martha WellsPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneA Deadly Education by Naomi NovikThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Hugo 2021 Eligible Novels
121 books — 215 voters
The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold
Hugo 2022 Eligible Novels
96 books — 131 voters

Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster BujoldFugitive Telemetry by Martha WellsRemote Control by Nnedi OkoraforAcross the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
Hugo 2022 Eligible Novellas
42 books — 53 voters
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinElric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Fantasy Classics
301 books — 581 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. HowardIll Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Pre-Tolkien Fantasy
382 books — 368 voters
Rivers of London by Ben AaronovitchSomething from the Nightside by Simon R. GreenDiscount Armageddon by Seanan McGuirePerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
Best Urban Fantasy SERIES
726 books — 3,754 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerNeither Here nor There by Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Wanderlust
1,055 books — 1,147 voters
Boneshaker by Cherie PriestPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Difference Engine by William Gibson
Best Steampunk Books
1,242 books — 4,095 voters

American Gods by Neil GaimanStorm Front by Jim ButcherNeverwhere by Neil GaimanGood Omens by Terry PratchettAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Best Urban Fantasy
4,402 books — 12,545 voters
Neverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Difference Engine by William GibsonA Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
Best Steampunk and Gaslight Works
313 books — 419 voters