Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Rambling Reader (12 Lists)



The Republic by PlatoThe Big Questions by Robert C. SolomonFive Dialogues by PlatoThe Symposium by PlatoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Best Philosophy Introductions
222 books — 281 voters
Examined Life by Astra TaylorAn Introduction to Africana Philosophy by Lewis R. GordonFemininity and Domination by Sandra Lee BartkyThree Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène CixousReading with Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous
feminist philosophy and literature
232 books — 25 voters

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCitizen by Claudia RankineLoving Day by Mat JohnsonPurity by Jonathan FranzenOn the Move by Oliver Sacks
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)
100 books — 205 voters
Julie and Julia by Julie PowellA Beautiful Mind by Sylvia NasarI Am Legend by Richard MathesonBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Movie Made You Want to Read the Book
634 books — 496 voters

Barefoot Contessa at Home by Ina GartenThe New York Times Cook Book by Craig ClaiborneThe Classic Italian Cook Book by Marcella HazanThe Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Gourmet Cookbook by Ruth Reichl
THE VERY BEST COOKBOOKS
474 books — 145 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsA Month in the Country by J.L. CarrSleepless Nights by Elizabeth HardwickThe Big Clock by Kenneth FearingThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
New York Review Books - Classics
531 books — 891 voters

Stoner by John WilliamsThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimA Month in the Country by J.L. CarrThe World as I Found It by Bruce DuffySleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
New York Review Books (NYRB) Classics: A Guide
36 books — 23 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia DavisThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionThe Castle by Franz KafkaUnderworld by Don DeLillo
Flavorwire's 50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
50 books — 105 voters

Gob's Grief by Chris AdrianRemembrance of Things I Forgot by Bob SmithAre You My Mother? by Alison BechdelJack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund WhiteThe Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Green Carnation Prize
84 books — 33 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Celestine Prophecy by James RedfieldThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Books I Regret Reading
2,299 books — 3,227 voters