Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Darran Mclaughlin (12 Lists)



Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Collections of Short Stories
2,895 books — 2,038 voters
Das Kapital by Karl MarxGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinDebt by David GraeberThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Best Economics Books
450 books — 521 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,328 books — 24,579 voters
Doughnut Economics by Kate RaworthInventing the Future by Nick SrnicekEconomics for the Many by John McDonnell
Civilization Transition
53 books — 26 voters

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 955 voters
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
417 books — 614 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Highbrow Fantasy Books
418 books — 623 voters
Maldoror and Poems by Comte de LautréamontMoll Flanders by Daniel DefoeCrash by J.G. BallardTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerThe Satyricon and the Fragments by Petronius
Naughty Classics
118 books — 45 voters

The White Album by Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionSelected Writings by William HazlittTestaments Betrayed by Milan KunderaLove, Poverty, and War by Christopher Hitchens
Best essays/essayists
214 books — 58 voters
Postwar by Tony JudtClassical World by Robin Lane FoxHistory of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Pursuit of Glory by Timothy C.W. BlanningGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Favourite History books
22 books — 7 voters

The Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Story of Art by E.H. GombrichSeven Days in the Art World by Sarah ThorntonWays of Seeing by John BergerVasari's Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Best Art and Art History Books
773 books — 313 voters
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean RhysThe White Album by Joan DidionJazz by Toni MorrisonWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Waves by Virginia Woolf
Favourite female writers
400 books — 30 voters