Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by doug bowman (8 Lists)



The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The ACTUAL 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
218 books — 320 voters
In One Person by John Irving
Can't Wait Books of 2012
2,516 books — 15,088 voters

The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Medicine and Literature
1,838 books — 1,997 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesDodsworth by Sinclair LewisMarjorie Morningstar by Herman WoukRabbit, Run by John UpdikeThe Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Retro Reads
163 books — 133 voters

The Brimstone Journals by Ron KoertgeWitness by Karen HesseOut of the Dust by Karen HesseOne of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya SonesWhat My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Novels in Verse
421 books — 752 voters
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonaldMaster of the Moor by Ruth RendellThe Ivory Grin by Ross MacdonaldTrio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout
Detective Fiction
1,184 books — 1,080 voters

The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
Best Literary Mysteries
2,546 books — 4,586 voters
The Goodbye Look by Ross MacdonaldNightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonaldAnd Be a Villain by Rex StoutPoison by Ed McBainGod Save The Child by Robert B. Parker
Best Detective/Mystery Series
2,201 books — 2,282 voters