Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dennis (14 Lists)



Trainspotting by Irvine WelshA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLolita by Vladimir NabokovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Contemporary Cult Fiction
492 books — 449 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Literary Fiction
1,543 books — 1,326 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCandide by VoltaireSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsChess Story by Stefan Zweig
World's Greatest Novellas
712 books — 1,441 voters

The Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education
98 books — 70 voters
The Cantos by Ezra PoundFinnegans Wake by James Joyce
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 363 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,395 books — 119,651 voters
Inferno by Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2 by Dante AlighieriParadise by Dante Alighieri
Best Books of the 14th Century
63 books — 354 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
924 books — 2,382 voters
The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanWatchmen by Alan MoorePersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Best Graphic Novels
3,456 books — 6,764 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceNausea by Jean-Paul SartreCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Abandoned Books
1,474 books — 1,465 voters

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceLolita by Vladimir NabokovA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
75,781 books — 281,640 voters
The Odyssey by Homer
I'm glad someone made me read this book
10,635 books — 10,200 voters