Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Lily Tice Weaver (22 Lists)



Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
You Read a Book about What?
4,019 books — 2,066 voters
Coraline by Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketMatilda by Roald DahlWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Books for Morbid Kids
729 books — 525 voters

The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian AndersenCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoThe Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilloPinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Magical or Living Toys
172 books — 37 voters
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead GeorgeJulie by Jean Craighead GeorgeJulie's Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead GeorgeHatchet by Gary PaulsenIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Kids Survival Fiction
26 books — 18 voters

Junonia by Kevin HenkesMy One Hundred Adventures by Polly HorvathEverything on a Waffle by Polly HorvathOlive's Ocean by Kevin HenkesTouch Blue by Cynthia Lord
Nautical Middle-Grade Girls
28 books — 6 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryWaiting for Normal by Leslie ConnorPictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly GiffBelle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Adoption/Foster Care Middle Grade
21 books — 15 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryPictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly GiffHalf a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata
Best Fiction about Adoption
328 books — 222 voters
Korean Fairy Tales by William Elliot GriffisAfro-American Folktales by Roger D. AbrahamsAfrican Folktales by Roger D. AbrahamsJapanese Fairy Tales by Grace JamesSouth-African Folk-Tales by James Albert Honeÿ
Fairy Tales from Every Country
208 books — 10 voters

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Best Synesthesia Books
84 books — 65 voters
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr & the Seven Dogs by Maj LindmanSnipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Big Farm by Maj LindmanSnipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Reindeer by Maj Lindman
Really Underrated Children's Books
942 books — 204 voters

Color Dance by Ann JonasFirebird by Rachel IsadoraDegas and the Little Dancer by Anholt LaurenceBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildNutcracker by Maurice Sendak
Picture Books for Young Ballerinas
161 books — 66 voters
Color Dance by Ann JonasFirebird by Rachel Isadora
Picture Books About Dance
197 books — 66 voters

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
3,060 books — 8,664 voters
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
Children's Picture Books With Beautiful Illustrations
2,149 books — 1,304 voters

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Fiction by Korean Authors and/or Containing Korean Characters
441 books — 438 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Tempest by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
415 books — 435 voters

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Best Multi-Ethnic American Literature
296 books — 141 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
13,609 books — 9,405 voters

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan GarnerBedknob and Broomstick by Mary NortonThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Book of Three by Lloyd AlexanderThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Books for Suzy Bishop
22 books — 4 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollMadeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien BynumThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Wonderlands
22 books — 4 voters

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonWrinkles by Paco RocaThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonWhen the Wind Blows by Raymond BriggsDisplacement by Lucy Knisley
old folks and grandparents
57 books — 21 voters
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way by AnonymousThe Upanishads by AnonymousDiamond Sutra by OshoThe Power of Now by Eckhart TolleDracula by Bram Stoker
Works Mentioned By Salinger
59 books — 1 voter