Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Joe Palmer (6 Lists)



Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Best Humorous Books
4,303 books — 7,858 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,355 books — 14,519 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Best Love Story
1,634 books — 1,947 voters
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Watership Down by Richard Adams
Best Books Ever
75,829 books — 281,768 voters

On The Pleasure of Hating by William HazlittBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Death of Grass by John ChristopherThe Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,060 books — 5,719 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
What Book Would You Like To Live In?
8,742 books — 8,852 voters