Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hamish Maczendawg (15 Lists)



The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Vegetarian by Han KangHuman Acts by Han KangConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Women in Translation
919 books — 300 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Books About Paris
712 books — 570 voters

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Binge Reads
216 books — 114 voters
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Satirical Fiction
145 books — 118 voters

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggThe Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
New York Review Books - Classics
532 books — 881 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFactotum by Charles BukowskiNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bizarre books
666 books — 424 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Library at Mount Char by Scott HawkinsThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,191 books — 1,083 voters
Why a Duck? by Richard J. AnobileLive from New York by Tom ShalesMonty Python's Flying Circus by Graham ChapmanAs You Wish by Cary ElwesGilliamesque by Terry Gilliam
Books About Films and TV Shows
494 books — 103 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Times 30 Books to Read Before You're 30
30 books — 10 voters
The Grifters by Jim ThompsonThe Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonThe Weirdness by Jeremy P. Bushnell
Best Books You've Never Heard Of
1,268 books — 794 voters

Confessions by Kanae Minato
Japanese Mystery/Detective/Crime Fiction Translated Into English
170 books — 380 voters
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,190 books — 1,502 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
You Read a Book about What?
4,044 books — 2,069 voters
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Weirdest Books Ever
1,189 books — 1,184 voters

The Bees by Laline PaullWho Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara ComynsThe Alligators of Abraham by Robert KlossThe Library at Mount Char by Scott HawkinsSudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Strange and Unusual Novels
101 books — 106 voters