Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



Becoming a Man by Paul MonetteCity of Night by John RechyGay New York by George ChaunceyClose to the Knives by David WojnarowiczFaggots by Larry Kramer
Gay Book Club
203 books — 11 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterWhen We Rise by Cleve JonesDino by Nick Tosches
Best American History Books
2,110 books — 2,478 voters

The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroLow Life by Lucy SanteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Best History Books
3,682 books — 3,715 voters
The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchLife on the Outside by Jennifer GonnermanInvisible Punishment by Meda Chesney-Lind
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,090 books — 1,529 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHallucinations by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
Medicine and Literature
1,836 books — 1,995 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinWe Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley
Best Gay Fiction
2,662 books — 3,857 voters

Smash Cut by Brad GoochDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David SedarisDry by Augusten BurroughsWhen We Rise by Cleve Jones
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
814 books — 471 voters
Just Kids by Patti SmithLife by Keith RichardsThis Wheel's on Fire by Levon HelmLet's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,415 books — 1,332 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,063 voters
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteJust Kids by Patti SmithLow Life by Lucy Sante
Tales of New York City
1,505 books — 1,213 voters

The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosińskiAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,186 books — 11,236 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Odyssey by HomerThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaUlysses by James Joyce
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,585 books — 13,114 voters