Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John WiswellThe Mars House by Natasha PulleyThe Book of Love by Kelly LinkThose Beyond the Wall by Micaiah JohnsonThe Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Hugo 2025 Eligible Novels
132 books — 137 voters
Children of Memory by Adrian TchaikovskyChain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahThe Haunting of Alejandra by V. CastroHe Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-ChanThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Hugo 2024 Eligible Novels
97 books — 92 voters

The Grief of Stones by Katherine AddisonWhat Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherEscape from Yokai Land by Charles StrossSpear by Nicola Griffith
Hugo 2023 Eligible Novellas
37 books — 64 voters

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi PatelGallant by V.E. SchwabThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziThe Golden Enclaves by Naomi NovikHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Hugo 2023 Eligible Novels
126 books — 272 voters
Inferno by Catherine ChoHow To Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren BravoLift as You Climb by Viv GroskopHow To Get Over A Boy by Chidera EggerueThe Home Stretch by Sally Howard
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2020s
692 books — 122 voters

This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany JewellAmerican Daughter by Stephanie Thornton PlymaleThe Future We Choose by Christiana FigueresThings I Learned from Falling by Claire  NelsonThe Home Stretch by Sally Howard
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2020
703 books — 148 voters
Caste by Isabel WilkersonBad Blood by John CarreyrouAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,221 books — 970 voters

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,869 books — 3,614 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGood Omens by Terry PratchettThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  Lawson
Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
6,116 books — 4,635 voters
Wool Omnibus by Hugh HoweyBlood Red Road by Moira YoungMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternCloud Atlas by David  Mitchell
Recommended by Reading Challengers
6,225 books — 4,755 voters

The Oathbound by Mercedes LackeyPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiThe Help by Kathryn StockettJoy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Unmistakably Strong Female Characters!!
432 books — 340 voters
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
1,873 books — 6,995 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books
6,485 books — 4,859 voters
Good Omens by Terry PratchettStardust by Neil GaimanNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best of Neil Gaiman
114 books — 505 voters

Parasite Rex by Carl ZimmerThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Secret Life of Pronouns by James W. PennebakerStiff by Mary RoachBonk by Mary Roach
You Read a Book about What?
4,095 books — 2,166 voters
The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Demolished Man by Alfred BesterEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,561 books — 25,011 voters

The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George Orwell
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,865 books — 26,132 voters
Magician by Raymond E. FeistSabriel by Garth Nix
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,344 books — 26,128 voters

Twilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertMy Horizontal Life by Chelsea HandlerApathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
The Worst Books of All Time
8,096 books — 19,870 voters

1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee BenderThe People of Paper by Salvador PlascenciaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Magical Realism
68 books — 66 voters
The Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsYou Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave EggersGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
Best Books Ever
77,185 books — 287,735 voters