Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Richard (6 Lists)



The Unknown Soldier by Väinö LinnaLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,388 voters
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac BabelGreat Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo TolstoySanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzKolyma Tales by Varlam ShalamovThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 252 voters

A People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesThe Greatest Battle by Andrew NagorskiStalingrad by Antony BeevorThe Icon and the Axe by James H. BillingtonIvan's War by Catherine Merridale
Best Russian History Books
550 books — 384 voters
Man Is Wolf to Man by Janusz BardachMolotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel PolonskyRussia's War by Richard OverySkylark by Dezső KosztolányiBallet's Magic Kingdom by Akim Volynsky
Best Eastern European History Books
232 books — 50 voters

Stories from a Siberian Village by Vasily ShukshinМертвые души. Ревизор. Повести by Nikolai GogolThe Party and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovThe Witch and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Top Russian Works of Fiction(In no partic. order)
21 books — 6 voters
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigJob by Joseph RothDie Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre by Heimito von DodererAndorra by Max Frisch
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 956 voters