Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hazel (10 Lists)



In Defense of Food by Michael PollanFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainTomatoland by Barry EstabrookThe Way We Eat by Peter Singer
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,225 books — 1,634 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Gothic Novels/Suspense Novels
416 books — 451 voters

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonSabriel by Garth NixAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Most Proactive Female Protagonist
238 books — 167 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,872 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingSabriel by Garth NixThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. LewisThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Most Interesting Magic System
2,612 books — 8,763 voters
Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,592 books — 13,121 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,673 voters
Sabriel by Garth NixThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,198 books — 68,031 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Historical Fiction
7,326 books — 25,533 voters
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Darker by E.L. JamesThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanBreaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,876 voters