Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paul (12 Lists)



Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn KyleInto Africa by Martin DugardTownie by Andre Dubus III
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,933 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,079 books — 1,471 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Foreign Lands
2,346 books — 2,190 voters
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
624 books — 418 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau1984 by George OrwellCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Books that make you think.
1,116 books — 1,048 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
West Africa
201 books — 87 voters

Into Africa by Martin Dugard
Have Passport Will Travel
703 books — 586 voters
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
1,303 books — 910 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Best books for an African Safari
475 books — 525 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,751 books — 1,628 voters

The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah
Best Travel Writing
316 books — 217 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahamePippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am
2,548 books — 3,728 voters