Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Tom (25 Lists)



One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDracula by Bram StokerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,872 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiA Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
Best Japanese Books
770 books — 3,247 voters
The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
Best Cold War Spy Books
46 books — 59 voters

Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
Ass-Kicking Action Thrillers
240 books — 86 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Mask of Dimitrios by Eric AmblerA Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
Julian Symons 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
100 books — 46 voters

The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainNo Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Lady in the Lake by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Pages of Noir: The Books that Became Film Noir
102 books — 98 voters

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
Best Spy Novels
1,287 books — 2,247 voters
The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarryA Spy by Nature by Charles CummingTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Espionage
983 books — 1,017 voters

State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2012 Tournament of Books
16 books — 245 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownUncommon Dissent by William A. DembskiGuilty by Ann CoulterHigh Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann CoulterIf Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
Most Over Hyped and Annoying Books Ever
568 books — 603 voters

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,305 books — 15,557 voters
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Favorite Harlan Coben
28 books — 193 voters

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Best Fantasy Books
1,681 books — 1,998 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesA Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezDeath in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas MannThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Stand by Stephen KingI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Books for a Pandemic
698 books — 578 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAtonement by Ian McEwanRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Book to Screen Interpretation
579 books — 480 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesMystic River by Dennis Lehane
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettPhantom Lady by Cornell WoolrichI Married a Dead Man by William Irish
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain1984 by George OrwellHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Banned Books: Public Domain
61 books — 60 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Magus by John FowlesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Best Books Ever
75,834 books — 281,789 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,673 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,814 books — 49,783 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels
99 books — 952 voters