Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Kelly (207 Lists)



The Book Thief by Markus ZusakSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonA Northern Light by Jennifer DonnellyGoing Bovine by Libba BrayThe Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Printz Award Winners and Honor Books
124 books — 967 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Best Opening Sentence
219 books — 151 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakTuesday by David WiesnerMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeySylvester and the Magic Pebble by William SteigJumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Caldecott Medal Winners
88 books — 454 voters
Dissolution by C.J. SansomThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Historical Fiction Books that Are Actually Historical Fiction
2,501 books — 2,744 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCarrie by Stephen KingAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Disturbingly Enticing
498 books — 198 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,143 books — 2,262 voters

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
700 books — 877 voters
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne BirdsallThe Underneath by Kathi AppeltSavvy by Ingrid Law
2009 Newbery Contenders
75 books — 607 voters

Emma by Jane Austen
Characters you just want to smack
476 books — 298 voters
Schindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Modern Australian Literature
567 books — 670 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFallen by Lauren Kate
Don't Ruin it With a Movie!
95 books — 46 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Fiction Books About Writers
294 books — 170 voters

Chosen by P.C. CastShiver by Maggie StiefvaterWicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
I Judged a Book by its Cover
180 books — 47 voters
Soulless by Gail CarrigerClockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Steampunk/Romance
366 books — 927 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegSophie’s World by Jostein GaarderThe Sagas of Icelanders by Jane SmileyThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,210 books — 1,246 voters
Milk by Anne MendelsonA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom StandageSalt by Mark Kurlansky
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,862 books — 2,216 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan StroudThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Child Prodigies
78 books — 89 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Northern Light by Jennifer DonnellyThe Cross of Lead by AviGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Teen Historical Fiction
1,380 books — 3,086 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakBlood Red Horse by K.M. Grant
DCPL's Teen World in Conflict Booklist
47 books — 44 voters
Boneshaker by Cherie PriestThe Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina SediaLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Best Steampunk Books
1,240 books — 4,090 voters

Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
World's Greatest Novellas
712 books — 1,441 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
12,079 books — 9,805 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónInkheart by Cornelia Funke
Books about Books
1,383 books — 1,517 voters
Brightly Woven by Alexandra BrackenLinger by Maggie StiefvaterMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Best Book Covers for 2010
359 books — 2,858 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCity of Thieves by David BenioffGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
World War II Fiction
1,278 books — 2,006 voters
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by W. Bill CzolgoszAndroid Karenina by Ben H. WintersPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Monster Mash
179 books — 415 voters

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob HartmanThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Women Who Got Away by John Updike
"The {_______} Who " Titles
970 books — 129 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoMiddlemarch by George EliotThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,812 voters

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora BennettWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Biographic Fiction
733 books — 303 voters
The House of Medici by Christopher HibbertGalileo's Daughter by Dava SobelThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Best Books on the Renaissance
187 books — 102 voters