Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Catapult (132 Lists)



Indigo by Padgett PowellImage Control by Patrick NathanThe Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes PitnerGalloway by Patrick LaurieEarth's Wild Music by Kathleen Dean Moore
[ATY 2021] - Nonfiction That's Not A Memoir or Biography
934 books — 118 voters
The Four Humors by Mina SeckinBewilderness by Karen Tucker
2021 Debuts - Adult
272 books — 483 voters

Every Day the River Changes by Jordan Salama
Favorite Travel Books
2,017 books — 3,939 voters
The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner
Black Lives Matter And Anti-Racist Books
125 books — 47 voters

The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes PitnerGeneration Occupy by Michael Levitin
Library of Resistance
185 books — 67 voters
The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner
What Can I Do? Learning About Anti Racism
49 books — 36 voters

The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner
Anti-Racist Education
203 books — 37 voters
The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner
Immigrant Justice & Anti-Racism
129 books — 31 voters

The Perishing by Natashia Deón
Forthcoming Books for 2021 by African-Americans
87 books — 78 voters
Generation Rx by Erin Marie DalyThis Is Ohio by Jack ShulerApology to the Young Addict by James BrownBewilderness by Karen Tucker
Substance Abuse & Addiction
717 books — 1,315 voters

On Account of Race by Lawrence GoldstoneGeneration Citizen by Scott WarrenThe Time Has Come by Michael KaufmanJustice Failed by Alton LoganThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,091 books — 1,530 voters
Three Zen Sutras by Red PineDiscovering the True Self by Kodo SawakiFrom the Monastery to the World by Thomas MertonThe Grass Flute Zen Master by Arthur BravermanRed Thread Zen by Susan Murphy
A Buddhist Reading List
897 books — 1,175 voters

What It Means to Be Moral by Phil Zuckerman
Atheistic books
138 books — 75 voters
Flunk. Start. by Sands Hall
People Who Have Left Cults or Religious Fundamentalism (Memoirs & Biographies)
158 books — 172 voters

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi AbrahamSankofa by Chibundu OnuzoWelcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,753 books — 1,629 voters
Humiliation by Paulina FloresHigh as the Waters Rise by Anja KampmannCelestial Bodies by Jokha AlharthiNo Presents Please by Jayant KaikiniMagnetized by Carlos Busqued
Favorite Translated Literature
1,029 books — 496 voters

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
Couldn't Put The Book Down
16,756 books — 16,488 voters
Lesson in Red by Maria HummelOn Harrow Hill by John Verdon
Mystery & Thriller 2021
325 books — 561 voters

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
Works of Pure Genius
719 books — 573 voters
Pop Song by Larissa PhamFake Accounts by Lauren OylerThe Crying Book by Heather ChristleLove Is an Ex-Country by Randa JarrarWhite Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Non-Fiction for Women in their Twenties
352 books — 276 voters

Craft in the Real World by Matthew SalessesMeander, Spiral, Explode by Jane AlisonBefore and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Best Writing Reference
195 books — 160 voters
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina NayeriAll You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungGentrifier by Anne Elizabeth MooreMade in China by Anna QuLove Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
Memoirs by Women
2,974 books — 3,004 voters

Night Theater by Vikram ParalkarNo Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini
Best Indian Fiction Books
914 books — 2,421 voters
Stillicide by Cynan JonesThe Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
Best Fiction Books about the Environment and Sustainability
216 books — 200 voters

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
2021 Books by Black authors
144 books — 149 voters
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere
#Onwednesdayswereadpink + Upcoming Book Releases May And June 2021
18 books — 7 voters

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,302 books — 4,507 voters
Craft in the Real World by Matthew SalessesMeander, Spiral, Explode by Jane AlisonBefore and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
126 books — 224 voters

Pop Song by Larissa PhamMade in China by Anna QuHao by Ye ChunLove Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
Asian Authored Books in 2021
143 books — 202 voters
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregorThe Manningtree Witches by A.K. BlakemoreSankofa by Chibundu OnuzoBewilderness by Karen TuckerDead Souls by Sam Riviere
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
446 books — 587 voters


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