Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Phillip Edwards (1432 Lists)



The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Blind Watchmaker by Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Popular Science Books on Goodreads
225 books — 23 voters
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ... by Peter GeorgeA Fortunate Man by John BergerDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonMASH by Richard HookerThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
Is There a Doctor in the Title?
745 books — 45 voters

Travelling in a Strange Land by David ParkMilkman by Anna BurnsFlames by Robbie ArnottHistory of Violence by Édouard LouisThe 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
2020 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist
155 books — 12 voters
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up by Julia EccleshareWhy You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So ... by Katherine RundellThe Story Cure by Ella BerthoudThe Encyclopedia of Cult Chidrens TV by Richard LewisThe Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
kids or children in the title
56 books — 9 voters

Candide, or, Optimism by VoltaireFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ... by Peter GeorgeEither/Or by Søren KierkegaardUtopia or, The happy republic by Thomas More
Books with the word or in the title
131 books — 10 voters
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieCurtain by Agatha ChristieThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieMiss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
Best Mysteries of the 20th Century
171 books — 79 voters

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonThe Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris
Best Mysteries from the 2010s
606 books — 553 voters
HHhH by Laurent BinetThe End of Eddy by Édouard LouisThe Vegetarian by Han KangFrankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed SaadawiThe Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
LitHub's Best Translated Novels of the Decade
25 books — 11 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique BaubyWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Best Popular Autobiography Books on Goodreads
162 books — 20 voters
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeMothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Sunday's Child
7 books — 6 voters

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegWhen the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan RhodesThe Snowman by Raymond BriggsLight on Snow by Anita ShreveThe Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
Snow in the Title
618 books — 49 voters
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeSaturday by Ian McEwan
Saturday's Child
39 books — 7 voters

On Going to Bed by Anthony BurgessMarianne Dreams by Catherine Storrnumber9dream by David MitchellThe History of Danish Dreams by Peter HøegCanal Dreams by Iain Banks
Sleepy Titles
997 books — 32 voters
Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
Skeletons doing things
142 books — 10 voters

Frankissstein by Jeanette WintersonSpring by Ali SmithThe Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
50 books — 25 voters
Spring by Ali SmithRusty Brown by Chris WareLot by Bryan WashingtonThe Tradition by Jericho BrownThe Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019
100 books — 43 voters

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa PearceDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerGood Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill
What's the Time?
445 books — 26 voters
1984 by George Orwell1985 by Anthony Burgess2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke2010 by Arthur C. Clarke
A Date in the Title
138 books — 20 voters

May Week Was in June by Clive JamesTenth of December by George SaundersAugust by Gerard WoodwardKansas in August by Patrick GaleThe Thing About December by Donal Ryan
A Month In The Title
88 books — 13 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessClock Without Hands by Carson McCullersThe Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias MalzieuUnder The Eye of the Clock by Christopher NolanThe Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Clock in the Title
231 books — 26 voters

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Fiction Books That Follow a Protagonist's Life
19 books — 5 voters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroHowards End by E.M. Forster84 Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffDracula by Bram StokerThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Starring Anthony Hopkins
26 books — 5 voters

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickHalf Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanThe Chemistry of Tears by Peter CareyThe Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
Blood, Sweat and Tears
443 books — 23 voters
Wild Swans by Jung ChangFunny Boy by Shyam SelvaduraiHow To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin HamidNight Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean VuongOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Books by Asian Authors with Asian People on the Cover
221 books — 56 voters

Thinks.... by David Lodge
Thought Bubbles, Speech Balloons, Dialogue Boxes
14 books — 5 voters
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoQuichotte by Salman RushdieOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongLot by Bryan WashingtonThe Tradition by Jericho Brown
TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
99 books — 90 voters

Chromatopia by David Coles
Books about color
15 books — 5 voters
The Great Concert of the Night by Jonathan Buckley
Books about fictional films
20 books — 9 voters

The Kindness of Women by J.G. BallardPatience by Toby LittGrace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Virtuous Words in the Title
488 books — 30 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus MillsAn English Guide to Birdwatching by Nicholas RoyleBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksThe Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris
Birds and Bees
552 books — 42 voters