Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by EAG (40 Lists)



The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy Ántonia by Willa CatherWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithThe Jungle by Upton SinclairO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,007 books — 1,449 voters
Beowulf by UnknownSir Gawain and the Green Knight by UnknownThe Wanderer by Michael Alexander, EditorThe Saga of the Volsungs by AnonymousThe Elder Edda by Unknown
Penguin Legends from the Ancient North
5 books — 6 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great American Novel
670 books — 1,089 voters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceThe Wreath by Sigrid UndsetLeaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose by Walt WhitmanAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo IshiguroMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Penguin Drop Caps
26 books — 71 voters

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollOliver Twist by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Odyssey by Homer
Penguin Clothbound Classics
99 books — 363 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Is It Just Me? Books You Disliked That Everyone Else Seems To Love
2,081 books — 2,691 voters

The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao MiyazakiArt of Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao MiyazakiThe Art of Ponyo by Hayao MiyazakiThe Art of My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
Top Animation Art/Making Books
234 books — 32 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Iliad by Homer
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,288 books — 10,019 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsLord of the Flies by William GoldingFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
1,548 books — 548 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Foreign Lands
2,346 books — 2,191 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Books I Regret Reading
2,301 books — 3,227 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Best Humorous Books
4,303 books — 7,858 voters

1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,836 voters
King Lear by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Best of William Shakespeare
100 books — 1,238 voters

مئة عام من العزلة by Gabriel García Márquezمذكرات طبيبة by Nawal El Saadawiساق البامبو by سعود السنعوسي
كتب عربية تخطط قراءتها هذا الصيف 2014
47 books — 32 voters
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKitchen by Banana YoshimotoSnow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Best Japanese Books
770 books — 3,247 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark1984 by George Orwell
Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain
397 books — 212 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books for the Modern Day Hippie, Bohemian, Free Spirit
430 books — 332 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 924 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo CoelhoThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
257 books — 769 voters

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Best of Paulo Coelho
31 books — 820 voters
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Best Book Cover 2009
333 books — 2,843 voters

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard ShawLady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Downton Abbey-esque Books
601 books — 1,000 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
I Saw the Movie & Read the Book
1,927 books — 1,763 voters

1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
503 books — 1,055 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,779 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Best Antiheroes
701 books — 586 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Dystopia!
1,220 books — 2,754 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerJaws by Peter BenchleyThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,222 books — 6,122 voters


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