Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joshua Williams (22 Lists)



Swamp Thing, Vol. 1 by Alan MooreAmerican Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott SnyderHarrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen BunnWytches, Volume 1 by Scott SnyderSevered by Scott Snyder
Best Horror Comics/Graphic Novels!
659 books — 441 voters
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,933 voters

Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,814 books — 49,783 voters
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Medicine and Literature
1,838 books — 1,997 voters

The Goddamned, Vol. 1 by Jason AaronSaga, Volume 7 by Brian K. VaughanEast of West, Vol. 7 by Jonathan HickmanPaper Girls, Volume 3 by Brian K. VaughanGod Country by Donny Cates
Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of 2017
148 books — 95 voters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters

Exit West by Mohsin HamidAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse TysonEverything You Want Me to Be by Mindy MejiaThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Best Books of 2017
1,734 books — 3,081 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleHoles by Louis SacharNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Newbery Medal Winner Books
104 books — 373 voters

Bone by Jeff SmithLumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. StevensonRunaways by Brian K. VaughanThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Best Graphic Novels for Children
1,455 books — 1,793 voters
Exit West by Mohsin HamidThings We Lost in the Fire by Mariana EnríquezPerfect Little World by Kevin WilsonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThis Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2018
174 books — 384 voters

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,155 voters
Night by Elie WieselThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Best of Jewish Authors
733 books — 193 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
730 books — 477 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Magical Realism
437 books — 638 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George Orwell
Best Utopian & Dystopian Fiction
216 books — 372 voters
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanFight Club by Chuck PalahniukDifferent Seasons by Stephen King
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,104 voters

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
I Only Watched the Movie!
1,222 books — 6,122 voters
Invisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukCows by Matthew StokoeGuts by Chuck PalahniukSheltered Volume 1 by Ed Brisson
Darkest Books of All Time
1,275 books — 1,713 voters

Sex from Scratch by Sarah Mirk
Best Books for Polyamory
120 books — 198 voters
The Winds of Winter by George R.R. MartinThe Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss
Hurry Up and Release It!!!
252 books — 3,792 voters

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Best Books of the 5th Century
38 books — 64 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,671 voters