Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dizzyca C (20 Lists)



Half the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofReviving Ophelia by Mary PipherThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Best Feminist Books
2,495 books — 3,503 voters
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersDreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
5,787 books — 6,320 voters

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,392 books — 119,637 voters
Toxic Parents by Susan ForwardThe Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice MillerRunning on Empty by Jonice WebbThe Divided Self by R.D. LaingHealing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller
Trauma and Recovery
44 books — 50 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Soul's Code by James HillmanThe Fall by Albert Camus
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 voters
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch AlbomThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
581 books — 264 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Best Cognitive Science Books
405 books — 489 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomBe Here Now by Ram DassThe Gifts of Imperfection by Brené BrownMyths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
Spirituality & Psychology
488 books — 481 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyAll the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
YA involving mental health issues (2000-present)
488 books — 1,039 voters
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. SaksLucky by Alice SeboldBrain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,147 books — 2,266 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelDeath of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Suicide
707 books — 495 voters
Quiet by Susan CainMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol TavrisThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerFlow by Mihály CsíkszentmihályiThe Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
Greatest Psychology Books
793 books — 1,333 voters

Other Half by Sarah RaynerMe Before You by Jojo Moyes
♥ CHICK LIT♥ 2013/ 2014/ 2015♥
15 books — 10 voters
Earth (The Book) by Jon StewartThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Daily Show Reading Club
340 books — 232 voters

Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Counselling Resources
37 books — 14 voters
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. JungThe Undiscovered Self by C.G. JungThoughts Without A Thinker by Mark EpsteinMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Books Every Psychology and/or Counseling Doctoral Student Should Read
1,343 books — 1,469 voters

The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Best Poetry Books
2,975 books — 2,416 voters
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola RahulaA Path with Heart by Jack KornfieldBeing Nobody, Going Nowhere by Ayya Khema
Zen Books for Beginners
107 books — 89 voters