Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kat (12 Lists)



Queenpin by Megan AbbottDie a Little by Megan AbbottGeneration Loss by Elizabeth HandGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Female Noir
152 books — 104 voters
Altered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe City & the City by China MiévilleThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonThree Parts Dead by Max GladstoneFatale by Ed Brubaker
Speculative Detectives
105 books — 24 voters

Crucial Interventions by Richard BarnettHuman Remains by Helen MacDonald
History of Medicine
351 books — 158 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Gothic Books of All Time
572 books — 3,492 voters

Crime & Criminals of Victorian England by Adrian GrayLondon's Shadows by Drew D. Gray
Nonfiction Books on the Victorian Era
404 books — 108 voters
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineNeuromancer by William Gibson
Books About Video Games and Virtual Reality
444 books — 851 voters

The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan MooreIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Stories For Book Lovers
8,328 books — 8,298 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfOn Writing by Stephen KingZen in the Art of Writing by Ray BradburyAdventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Best Books on Writing
796 books — 1,326 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckOn the Road by Jack KerouacFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckL.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Best Books About America
77 books — 28 voters
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
695 books — 626 voters

The Scar by China MiévilleFinch by Jeff VandermeerBlack Juice by Margo LanaganTender Morsels by Margo LanaganPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,090 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Favorite Novels Which Won the Hugo Award
84 books — 1,614 voters