Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sigrun Hodne (48 Lists)



Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Best of Outdoor Literature
241 books — 74 voters
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
325 books — 698 voters

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
The 75 Books Every Man Should Read (from Esquire)
129 books — 147 voters
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wanderlust
1,049 books — 1,143 voters

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Best Beach Reads 2015
1,738 books — 2,270 voters
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca SolnitTeaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Beyond David Sedaris: Essay Collections
182 books — 86 voters

The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2015 Book Preview I - Spring and Summer
93 books — 196 voters
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List
145 books — 133 voters

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Lover by Marguerite DurasNights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Great Women Authors
1,227 books — 333 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierOld Masters by Thomas Bernhard
The Goldfinch List
77 books — 27 voters

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWhat I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Art & Artists in Fiction
922 books — 1,099 voters
Bird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronThe Writing Life by Annie DillardBecoming a Writer by Dorothea BrandeWriting as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo
Being a Better Writer
110 books — 59 voters

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Makes me want to sit down and write!
76 books — 35 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiKitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Best Japanese Books
765 books — 3,239 voters

Still Writing by Dani ShapiroOut of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,222 books — 8,061 voters
The Writing Life by Annie DillardBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Creative Habit by Twyla TharpArt and Fear by David Bayles
Best Books on Creative Life
502 books — 616 voters

Quiet by Susan Cain
Amazon's Books of the Year: Top 100 Picks for 2012
100 books — 276 voters
Quiet by Susan Cain
Best Nonfiction Audio Books
447 books — 285 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,819 voters
Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonSamuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia DavisThe Cows by Lydia Davis
2013 Man Booker International Finalists
98 books — 12 voters

Beloved by Toni MorrisonTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,402 voters
Quiet by Susan Cain
books from TED
95 books — 367 voters

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel BeckettLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesLife by Georges PerecThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Trial by Franz Kafka
DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING
158 books — 69 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Waves by Virginia WoolfThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Most Difficult Novels
583 books — 2,040 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,294 books — 4,444 voters
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
106 books — 991 voters

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Best Nature Books
1,151 books — 764 voters
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran FoerNox by Anne CarsonIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoNets by Jen BervinAutobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Books with Innovative Book Design / Structure
304 books — 550 voters

Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Amazon.com Best Books of 2011: The Top 100
100 books — 175 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
All kinds of classics that should be read at least once
499 books — 236 voters


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