Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sarah Cavar (46 Lists)



Anorexic Becomings by Valerie McLarenJust Another Dead Black Girl by Michelle EvansSmall Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-YangFairest by Meredith TalusanFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Books by Transfeminine Authors of Color
157 books — 9 voters
Zong! by Marlene NourbeSe PhilipWhereas by Layli Long Soldier
Docupoetry
31 books — 9 voters

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le GuinSalt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiThe Cabinet by Kim Un-SuTentacle by Rita IndianaAppleseed by Matt Bell
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with between 1000 and 9999 ratings
2,178 books — 112 voters
M Archive by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with between 100 and 999 ratings
967 books — 83 voters

Wikipedia Apocalyptica by Steven D. SchroederZER000 EXCESS by Jake Reber
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with fewer than 100 ratings
395 books — 130 voters
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka AokiIn The Nucleus by Marisa G. DohertyZami by Audre LordeThe House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline WoodsonSalt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
Fiction about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women of color
277 books — 171 voters

Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonSalt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiBird-Eyes by Madelyn ArnoldChouette by Claire Oshetsky
[ATY 2022] Less Than 5000 Ratings
646 books — 74 voters
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam ZhangWhen the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi VoThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoPizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Queer Books By AAPI Authors
65 books — 15 voters

Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Trans* Young Adult Books
82 books — 55 voters
The Echo Wife by Sarah GaileyFirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyThe Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2022
76 books — 71 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergInfect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters
T4T
191 books — 33 voters
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
Good Books Most People Haven't Heard Of
89 books — 39 voters

Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinThe Core of the Sun by Johanna SinisaloLes Guerilleres by Monique Wittig
Translated Speculative Fiction
381 books — 203 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHyperion by Dan SimmonsHe, She and It by Marge Piercy
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
269 books — 36 voters

The Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonAuthoring Autism by Melanie YergeauA Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Neurodiversity Books
302 books — 247 voters
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Best Fiction With Disfigured/Disabled Leads
1,170 books — 1,059 voters

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonHuntress by Malinda LoSalt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiWhen Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
WLW Fiction by Authors of Color
153 books — 30 voters
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
197 books — 25 voters

The Birth of the Clinic by Michel FoucaultThe Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. MetzlMadness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies
202 books — 54 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
536 books — 349 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergPoor Queer Studies by Matt BrimDirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...Sister Outsider by Audre LordeZami by Audre Lorde
Working-class queers
28 books — 10 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delanysuccubus in my pocket by Kari EdwardsCitizen by Claudia RankineAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonIn the Circus of You by Nicelle Davis
experimental writing by women, non-binary writers & men of colour
122 books — 24 voters

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerOrlando by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
LGBTQ+ Classics
48 books — 31 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Books on Books: Bookmaking, Biblioclasm, Bibliophilia
424 books — 362 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Angel Experiment by James PattersonDr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam
Genetics in Science Fiction
219 books — 180 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Angel Experiment by James PattersonUnwind by Neal Shusterman
Fiction with Genetic Engineering themes
63 books — 26 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaOrlando by Virginia WoolfBeloved by Toni Morrison
Readercon Slipstream Canon
113 books — 29 voters
Area X by Jeff VandermeerDhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Dreamscapes
109 books — 61 voters


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