Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Osvaldo Ortega (19 Lists)



The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonaldA Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonaldFer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,201 books — 2,282 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Books I Regret Reading
2,301 books — 3,227 voters

From Time to Time by Jack FinneyAnnals of the Time Patrol by Poul Anderson
Best Time Travel Fiction
1,953 books — 5,236 voters
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Best Heroic Fantasy
718 books — 1,397 voters

The Original I Ching Oracle by Rudolf RitsemaThe Complete Works by William ShakespeareThe Numerology of the I Ching by Taoist Master Alfred HuangTao Te Ching by Lao TzuBeowulf by Unknown
Deserted Island Shelf
56 books — 23 voters
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellChariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken
Most Influential Books
137 books — 99 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters
All the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLancelot by Walker PercyCadillac Jukebox by James Lee BurkeThe Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
Louisiana Fiction
194 books — 156 voters

Batman by Frank MillerWatchmen by Alan MooreThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan MooreKingdom Come by Mark Waid
Best Superhero Graphic Novels
633 books — 438 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,242 books — 3,409 voters

The Princess Bride by William GoldmanFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,694 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasUlysses by James JoyceDune by Frank HerbertGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,288 books — 10,019 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Hamlet by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,342 books — 2,574 voters
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books Ever
75,832 books — 281,771 voters

Armor by John SteakleyThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburySnow Crash by Neal StephensonFoundation by Isaac Asimov
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,329 books — 24,579 voters
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWizard's First Rule by Terry GoodkindStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,876 voters

Aztec by Gary JenningsShōgun by James Clavell
Best Historical Fiction
7,326 books — 25,532 voters