Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

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



The Complete Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Swastika on the Cover
91 books — 9 voters
The Collector by John FowlesThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkLord of the Flies by William GoldingPerfume by Patrick SüskindWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
They Looked Like Monsters to You?
58 books — 20 voters

The Spire by William Golding
Historical Fiction - Cathedrals
13 books — 8 voters
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter BoxallThis Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregorI Didn't Know You Cared by Peter TinniswoodSo Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellWhat Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Books with "YOU" in the title
1,680 books — 100 voters

Unless by Carol ShieldsThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The Great Canadian Reading List - Part 1
107 books — 8 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Drought by J.G. Ballard
Books about Drought
31 books — 16 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe City & the City by China MiévilleCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Arthur C Clarke Award Winners and Finalists
238 books — 29 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe City & the City by China MiévilleVenomous Lumpsucker by Ned BeaumanThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners
37 books — 95 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C Clarke
33 books — 9 voters
How to Avoid Huge Ships by John W. TrimmerThe Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa SurkisCooking with Poo by Saiyuud DiwongHow To Poo On A Date by Mats & EnzoHow to Shit in the Woods by Kathleen Meyer
Diagram Prize Winners (and Runners-Up)
60 books — 3 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Great Fire of London by Peter AckroydOx-Tales by Mark Ellingham
Fiery titles
318 books — 15 voters
Ox-Tales by Mark EllinghamComing Up for Air by George OrwellBreath by Tim WintonAir by Geoff Ryman
Air
401 books — 27 voters

Enduring Love by Ian McEwanThe Cement Garden by Ian McEwanThe Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwanThe Child in Time by Ian McEwanFirst Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
Best of Ian McEwan
40 books — 19 voters
Skin Lane by Neil BartlettA Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffNapolean Of Notting Hill by G.K. ChestertonThe Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Places in London
74 books — 7 voters

Beautiful Thing by Jonathan HarveyThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaUnless by Carol ShieldsThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersQuarantine by Jim Crace
Title in WHITE font
623 books — 24 voters
Empire of the Sun by J.G. BallardThe Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique BaubyStuart by Alexander MastersThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
4th Estate Matchbook Classics
10 books — 1 voter

Instructions to the Young Bookseller by Ernest W. HefferAnne Frank's Diary by Ari FolmanThe Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar WildeNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Blackwell's 140 Years 140 Books
100 books — 2 voters
On the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Pesthouse by Jim CraceThe Machine Stops by E.M. ForsterThe Quiet Earth by Craig HarrisonThe Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
It's the End of the World as We Know It
118 books — 16 voters

Cloud Atlas by David MitchellDarkmans by Nicola BarkerLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersIf Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregorSUBMISSION by Michel Houellebecq
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
108 books — 31 voters
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine ThienThe Idea of Perfection by Kate GrenvilleLarry's Party by Carol ShieldsHow to be Both by Ali Smith
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winners
22 books — 14 voters

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeLast and First Men by Olaf StapledonTau Zero by Poul AndersonRingworld by Larry NivenEon by Greg Bear
The Gollancz Space Opera Collection
10 books — 2 voters
Death by Julian BarnesDesire by Haruki Murakami
Vintage Minis
43 books — 20 voters

Just Above My Head by James BaldwinInto Their Labours by John BergerDance on My Grave by Aidan ChambersAdolf Hitler by Spike MilliganAnd Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
Your, My, Their in the Title
568 books — 14 voters
Here Is Where We Meet by John BergerWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinBefore I Say Goodbye by Ruth PicardieUntil Further Notice, I Am Alive by Tom LubbockI Am Radar by Reif Larsen
I, You, Me, We, Us, They in The Title
339 books — 16 voters

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil BartlettEvery Man for Himself by Beryl BainbridgeCover Her Face by P.D. JamesThe Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman RushdieDon't Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
Him and Her in the Title
224 books — 13 voters
They Came Like Swallows by William MaxwellReady to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil BartlettSo He Takes the Dog by Jonathan BuckleyThe Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan BennettHe Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
He, She, or They in the Title
75 books — 10 voters

Lanny by Max PorterCompulsion by Shaun HutsonTimoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan RhodesThe Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
Does The Dog Die?
44 books — 9 voters
Two Boys Kissing by David LevithanBoy A by Jonathan TrigellThe Birthday Boys by Beryl BainbridgeAt Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillAbout a Boy by Nick Hornby
Books with Boy in the title
404 books — 26 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Girls of Slender Means by Muriel SparkGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenGirl Meets Boy by Ali SmithMorality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Books with Girl in the Title
501 books — 22 voters
Aesop’s Fables by AesopThe Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenThe Ugly Duckling by Jerry PinkneyAll the Troubles of the World by Isaac AsimovThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Authors With A Last Name Starting With "A"
463 books — 20 voters