Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by JK (7 Lists)



Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
512 books — 2,279 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
2,199 books — 4,452 voters

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyTwenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick HamiltonTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneRevelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Best Authors Ever
435 books — 230 voters
Tolkien On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. TolkienThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLord of the Flies by William GoldingAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,671 voters

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Road by Cormac McCarthyMystic River by Dennis LehaneNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,189 books — 28,379 voters
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinBossypants by Tina Fey
Best Books of 2011
2,669 books — 6,707 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books Ever
75,833 books — 281,788 voters