Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Byron 'Giggsy' Paul (228 Lists)



Ice by Anna KavanCrash by J.G. Ballard
British Experimental Novels 1940-1980
90 books — 43 voters
Ubik by Philip K. DickVurt by Jeff NoonThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dreampunk!
88 books — 14 voters

The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.Hogg by Samuel R. DelanyThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George Orwell
Most Disturbing Books
253 books — 239 voters
White Noise by Don DeLilloThe Public Burning by Robert CooverDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyFight Club by Chuck PalahniukPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Waiting For....Classic Post Modern Literature
156 books — 42 voters

The Devil and Preston Black by Jason Jack MillerKing of the Screwups by K.L. GoingNeedle in the Groove by Jeff NoonThe Final Programme by Michael MoorcockGreat Jones Street by Don DeLillo
Fiction Involving Rock/Pop Music
880 books — 1,021 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyVurt by Jeff NoonUbik by Philip K. DickFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
To look into the actor's mouth is to create a vaccuum; or: How to unfuck your head by fucking it hard
141 books — 20 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Annotations & The Annotated
136 books — 32 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Read
50 books — 30 voters

Ubik by Philip K. DickRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyIce by Anna KavanThe Gunslinger by Stephen King
Dreamscapes
108 books — 57 voters
The Falling Woman by Pat MurphyThe Unincorporated Woman by Dani KollinThe Invisible Woman by Claire TomalinThe Invisible Woman by Helen Walmsley-JohnsonThe Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell
The "XYZ" Woman
324 books — 18 voters

The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerCities of the Red Night by William S. BurroughsNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Penguin Modern Classics
411 books — 483 voters
The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyTorture Garden by Octave MirbeauThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksThrough Darkest America by Neal Barrett Jr.
Depraved, perverse and subversive fiction and non-fiction
363 books — 178 voters

Yarn by Jon ArmstrongThrough Darkest America by Neal Barrett Jr.The Guardener's Tale by Bruce BostonOnly Lovers Left Alive by Dave WallisDark Star by Alan Dean Foster
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with between 100 and 999 ratings
971 books — 83 voters
Ubik by Philip K. DickVurt by Jeff NoonNeuromancer by William GibsonDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Life is a Simulation
111 books — 41 voters

Blood Red Road by Moira YoungBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiRot & Ruin by Jonathan MaberryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDelirium by Lauren Oliver
Best Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic YA Fiction
344 books — 761 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonCount Zero by William GibsonMockingbird by Walter TevisWhen Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
Classic Science Fiction - 1980-1989
302 books — 260 voters

The Beach by Alex GarlandBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsLord of the Flies by William Golding
Desert Islands
128 books — 149 voters
Through Darkest America by Neal Barrett Jr.The Death of Grass by John ChristopherThe Drowned World by J.G. BallardThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
Best Ecological Horror novels
35 books — 18 voters

The Public Burning by Robert CooverThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksVALIS by Philip K. DickFight Club by Chuck PalahniukHam on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Unique Narrators
403 books — 346 voters
The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Public Burning by Robert CooverThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Beach by Alex Garland
Cult fiction
535 books — 489 voters

The Public Burning by Robert CooverThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterDhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyThe Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas RombesThe Iron Heel by Jack London
Anti-novel
113 books — 73 voters
The Public Burning by Robert CooverSurvivor by Chuck PalahniukHoudini Heart by Ki LongfellowRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHigh-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,104 books — 1,738 voters

Neuromancer by William GibsonWhite Noise by Don DeLilloThe Room by Hubert Selby Jr.The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksThe Public Burning by Robert Coover
Contemporary Cult Fiction
492 books — 453 voters
The Public Burning by Robert CooverThe Soft Machine by William S. BurroughsThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rabelais' Codpiece
134 books — 143 voters

The Demolished Man by Alfred BesterThe Shrinking Man by Richard MathesonThe Running Man by Richard BachmanThe Variable Man by Philip K. DickThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The "XYZ" Man
533 books — 28 voters
Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyYarn by Jon ArmstrongVurt by Jeff Noon
Completely Absurd
30 books — 30 voters

The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksHam on Rye by Charles BukowskiThe Book of Skulls by Robert SilverbergThe Wanderers by Richard PriceLord of the Flies by William Golding
Coming of Age Tales To Tackle Adulthood
129 books — 111 voters
Post Office by Charles BukowskiThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonHam on Rye by Charles BukowskiThe Beach by Alex GarlandFactotum by Charles Bukowski
White Trash Literature
191 books — 52 voters

Vurt by Jeff NoonThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksCity of Glass by Paul AusterThe Public Burning by Robert CooverThe Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Bruce Sterling's Slipstream
122 books — 12 voters
The Wasp Factory by Iain BanksPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFight Club by Chuck PalahniukRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Cult fction
360 books — 211 voters


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