Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Dianna Caley (9 Lists)



The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Conspiracy Fiction
1,275 books — 1,316 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Giving Tree by Shel SilversteinAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Children's Books I'll Re-Read No Matter How Old I Am
2,548 books — 3,728 voters
Cleopatra by Stacy SchiffThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Black Count by Tom ReissClarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone
Best Biographies
1,652 books — 2,935 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García MárquezEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Latin American Fiction
863 books — 1,155 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Help by Kathryn StockettJanet Evanovich Three and Four Two-Book Set by Janet EvanovichA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Must Read!!
134 books — 80 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,781 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles Dickens
History through Novels: England/UK
307 books — 178 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Books Ever
75,798 books — 281,750 voters