Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Inder (11 Lists)



Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Earth Is Room Enough--On-Planet SF
162 books — 66 voters
The History of Love by Nicole KraussThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Stories For Book Lovers
8,328 books — 8,291 voters

Endurance by Alfred LansingRace to the Pole by Ranulph FiennesScott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon ScottIce Blink by Scott Cookman
Out in the Cold
298 books — 126 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonHe Knew He Was Right by Anthony TrollopeThe Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Unhappy Marriages
484 books — 288 voters

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerA Three Dog Life by Abigail ThomasReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiOut of Africa by Isak DinesenOperating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Memoirs by Women
2,972 books — 3,002 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisWhen We Were Very Young by A.A. MilneGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Favorite books from my childhood
4,410 books — 7,412 voters

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail LermontovDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,277 voters
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Brave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,323 books — 24,563 voters

Notes of a Native Son by James BaldwinTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni Morrison
Best African American Books
1,002 books — 1,137 voters
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Joys of Motherhood by Buchi EmechetaA Bend in the River by V.S. NaipaulThe Eloquence of Silence by Marnia LazregHalf a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,751 books — 1,624 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb Carr
Best Historical Mystery
2,060 books — 4,508 voters