Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Gareth Reeves (13 Lists)



The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeDragonflight by Anne McCaffreyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Steve Donoghue Top 50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy
50 books — 2 voters
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe Last Samurai by Helen DeWittCarter Beats the Devil by Glen David GoldBarkskins by Annie ProulxThe Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Best English-Language Fiction Since 2000
30 books — 2 voters

The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Holy Bible by AnonymousOedipus the King by SophoclesLysistrata by Aristophanes
Steve Donoghue Top 100
100 books — 10 voters
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe English Bible, King James Version by Herbert MarksThe Egyptian Book of the Dead by AnonymousPirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud by R. Travers HerfordMahabharata by Carole Satyamurti
Western Canon
45 books — 2 voters

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary SutcliffThe Warden by Anthony TrollopeThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuA Maggot by John FowlesThe Stand by Stephen King
Books I've started but never finished
13 books — 3 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe New Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Best Entertainments
121 books — 2 voters

The Poetry of Michelangelo by Robert J. Clements
Appendix B: The Aristocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)
83 books — 14 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoBlindness / Seeing by José SaramagoMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonThe Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts
Best Books of the Last 50 Years
141 books — 22 voters

Thyrza by George GissingThe Nether World by George GissingNew Grub Street by George GissingBorn in Exile by George GissingThe Odd Women by George Gissing
Gissing: Best Works
8 books — 3 voters
The Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Wheels of Chance by H.G. WellsThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Best of H. G. Wells
15 books — 6 voters

The Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe English Bible, King James Version by Herbert MarksThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad by HomerDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Books Ever
75,798 books — 281,750 voters