Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Julie Tridle (11 Lists)



East of Eden by John SteinbeckAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Great American Read - What They Missed
547 books — 574 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,850 books — 21,770 voters

Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieUlysses by James JoyceDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,576 books — 13,085 voters
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsStone's Fall by Iain Pears
Best Historical Mystery
1,988 books — 4,466 voters

A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Crow Road by Iain Banks
Best Opening Sentence
219 books — 151 voters
The Famished Road by Ben OkriFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyIodine by Haven KimmelThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Novels with the Best Opening Lines
38 books — 17 voters

A Hell of a Woman by Jim ThompsonI Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Unique Narrators
403 books — 346 voters
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMystic River by Dennis Lehane
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,274 books — 15,389 voters

Stone's Fall by Iain PearsThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Books With Multiple Perspectives
735 books — 285 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
920 books — 2,381 voters

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Gothic Books of All Time
562 books — 3,463 voters