Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Anthony (9 Lists)



Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
75,782 books — 281,655 voters
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Best Young Adult Books
13,102 books — 80,158 voters

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisNaked by David Sedaris
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
696 books — 1,048 voters
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettEmpire of the Sun by J.G. BallardNight by Elie WieselSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,241 books — 3,905 voters

Absalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerDeath in Venice by Thomas MannOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,777 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters

The Rest Is Noise by Alex RossAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,395 books — 119,653 voters