Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lisa (66 Lists)



Pine by Francine Toon
2020 Gothic
48 books — 37 voters
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Booker Prize Eligible 2020
160 books — 109 voters

The Deep by Alma KatsuThe Bass Rock by Evie WyldUtopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
585 books — 1,241 voters
American Panda by Gloria Chao
Asian MG/YA 2018
69 books — 43 voters

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
Asian MG/YA 2019
67 books — 59 voters
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
#LoveOZYA 2019
42 books — 40 voters

Eggshell Skull by Bri LeeThe Hate Race by Maxine Beneba ClarkeThe Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
Excellent Aussie Non-Fiction
127 books — 21 voters
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Victorian Asylums
59 books — 76 voters

Dark Matter by Michelle PaverThe Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Historical Ghost Fiction
230 books — 346 voters
Misery by Stephen King
The Vilest Woman in Fiction
117 books — 93 voters

Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny BrittSisters by Raina TelgemeierAnya's Ghost by Vera BrosgolNimona by N.D. Stevenson
Best Graphic Novels for Middle School
214 books — 334 voters
Words in Deep Blue by Cath CrowleySing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake
LoveOzYA 2016
72 books — 122 voters

11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Long Walk by Richard BachmanThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen KingJoyland by Stephen KingThe Dead Zone by Stephen King
Best of Stephen King
178 books — 3,874 voters
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
Funny Women Memoirs
454 books — 1,549 voters

Jasper Jones by Craig SilveyHating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Best Australian YA Books
373 books — 519 voters
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
2016 Best Books
287 books — 410 voters

Past the Shallows by Favel ParrettSing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake
Tasmania
176 books — 80 voters
The Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThornwood House by Anna RomerPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Dry by Jane Harper
Australian bush
155 books — 25 voters

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
Best Show Business Memoirs or Biographies
437 books — 387 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,380 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsNimona by N.D. StevensonLumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. Stevenson
What Women Born in the 80s are Reading in 2016
760 books — 89 voters
The Replacement by Brenna YovanoffLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Judge A Book By Its Cover!
15,109 books — 16,966 voters

The Shining by Stephen KingJaws by Peter BenchleyBig Fish by Daniel WallacePractical Magic by Alice HoffmanJumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK
1,134 books — 10,103 voters
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistBird Box by Josh MalermanJohn Dies at the End by David WongWelcome to Lovecraft by Joe HillJoyland by Stephen King
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
483 books — 1,248 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterThis House Is Haunted by John BoyneWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Modern Gothic
709 books — 1,355 voters
Anya's Ghost by Vera BrosgolThrough the Woods by E.M. CarrollLumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. StevensonThis One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Comics & Graphic Novels by Women
1,491 books — 1,362 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessThe Long Walk by Richard BachmanAlas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,733 books — 25,959 voters
Jasper Jones by Craig SilveyPast the Shallows by Favel ParrettAll That I Am by Anna FunderThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly RinglandThe Dry by Jane Harper
Australian recent fiction
265 books — 76 voters


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