Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Best Book I Read Last Year
19 books — 7 voters
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Best Horror Novels
1,950 books — 5,395 voters

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah GreenThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous HuxleyConfessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Memoirs of Madness
291 books — 372 voters
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe King Must Die by Mary RenaultAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Balkan Trilogy by Olivia ManningA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Best Literary Trilogies
260 books — 154 voters

In Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinThe Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che GuevaraRebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da CunhaThe Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos FuentesThe Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
South America - History and Culture
359 books — 123 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryMiddlemarch by George Eliot
Novels of Domestic Life
423 books — 140 voters

The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven RuncimanPeace Be Upon You by Zachary KarabellThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonA History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set by Steven RuncimanThe Ottoman Centuries by John Patrick Douglas Balfour
Islam and the West: 700 to 1700
102 books — 23 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithSmilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegField of Blood by Denise MinaA Taste for Death by P.D. James
Fearless Females
764 books — 916 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
I Picked It Up Because of the Title
7,917 books — 2,058 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Best War Novels
1,657 books — 1,376 voters

Shakespeare of London by Marchette Gaylord ChuteShakespearean Tragedy by A.C. BradleyShakespeare by Anthony BurgessColeridge on Shakespeare by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeShakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline Frances Eleanor Sp...
Best Books About Shakespeare
261 books — 164 voters
Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanDust and Ashes by Anatoli RybakovFear by Anatoli RybakovChildren of the Arbat by Anatoli RybakovThe Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Stalin's Purges of the 1930s
53 books — 19 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraHenry V by William ShakespeareThe Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven RuncimanThe Iliad by Homer
Major Battles in History and Fiction
232 books — 80 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,651 books — 25,852 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel PoolA Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanArthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
British History
784 books — 202 voters
Tao Te Ching by Lao TzuA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 925 voters

The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Upanishads by Anonymous
Best pre-20th Century Non-Fiction
140 books — 44 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 361 voters

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffSelected Letters by Marcus Tullius CiceroLetters from a Stoic by SenecaAshen Sky by Pliny the YoungerLetters on England by Voltaire
Letters To And From: Fan Mail, Hate Mail, Love Letters, Communique & Correspondence (Non-Fiction)
321 books — 79 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysOur Man in Havana by Graham GreeneFar Tortuga by Peter MatthiessenLucy by Jamaica KincaidLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Caribbean Literature
578 books — 261 voters

The Ambassadors by Henry JamesWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Honorary Consul by Graham GreeneThe Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan DoyleMichael Strogoff by Jules Verne
Diplomacy in Book Titles
150 books — 45 voters
Look Back in Anger by John OsborneSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan SillitoeRoom at the Top by John BraineThe Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Britain's Angry Young Literature (50s & 60s)
27 books — 40 voters

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James BoswellThe Complete Enderby by Anthony BurgessThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry FieldingThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 by Anaïs NinDostoevsky by Joseph Frank
Truly Massive Biography, Real or Imagined
263 books — 39 voters
The Taste of Power by Ladislav MňačkoChildren of the Arbat by Anatoli RybakovAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenI, Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert GravesThe Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol
Corruption in High Places
418 books — 283 voters

Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges by Jorge Luis BorgesAn Open Life by Joseph CampbellJorge Luis Borges by Beatriz SarloWhy Orwell Matters by Christopher HitchensMontcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
The Last 10 Nonfiction Books I Read
2,988 books — 1,126 voters
Wren's London by Eric De MarèThe spire, William Golding by Steve Eddy
Narratives of Large Scale Engineering
104 books — 36 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselMaus I by Art SpiegelmanMaus II by Art SpiegelmanMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Well-Written Holocaust Books
883 books — 2,870 voters
The Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellL.A. Confidential by James EllroyThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,107 books — 1,120 voters

New Grub Street by George GissingKeep the Aspidistra Flying by George OrwellDeath in Venice by Thomas MannLost Illusions by Honoré de BalzacWonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Writers Who Write About Writers
378 books — 106 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Stranger by Albert CamusFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Works of Fiction Every Philosophy Student Should Read
140 books — 74 voters


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