Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Brian Sison (19 Lists)



Flatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaEinstein’s Dreams by Alan LightmanProof by David AuburnSphereland by Dionijs Burger Jr.
Favorite Science/Math-themed novels
31 books — 43 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Love Yous Are for White People by Lac SuNight by Elie WieselMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklKitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Most Compelling Memoirs
280 books — 152 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboInvisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukBeatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,187 books — 11,264 voters
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto EcoA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Most Difficult Novels
588 books — 2,044 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain1984 by George OrwellHamlet by William Shakespeare
The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class
625 books — 2,758 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,287 books — 10,018 voters

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg MeekerNurtureShock by Po BronsonOn Becoming Baby Wise by Gary Ezzo
Most Influential Parenting Books
396 books — 594 voters
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,355 books — 14,517 voters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,592 books — 13,121 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittPredictably Irrational by Dan ArielyTraffic by Tom VanderbiltOutliers by Malcolm GladwellNurtureShock by Po Bronson
Sociology Books
558 books — 427 voters

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainWaiting by Debra GinsbergHeat by Bill BufordWaiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
Restaurant Reads
214 books — 99 voters
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroJohnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Books That Made You Cry
1,606 books — 3,268 voters

Gone for Good by Harlan CobenTell No One by Harlan Coben
Favorite Harlan Coben
28 books — 193 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Must Read Classics
1,858 books — 4,640 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,857 books — 21,933 voters
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Best Historical Fiction
7,326 books — 25,529 voters

And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieShutter Island by Dennis LehaneGone for Good by Harlan CobenProjection by Keith Ablow
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,305 books — 15,556 voters
The Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumInterview with the Vampire by Anne RicePrimal Fear by William DiehlThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsI, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Book Was Better Than the Movie
1,561 books — 18,694 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.1984 by George OrwellMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,781 voters