Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Andrew LaBerteaux (12 Lists)



The Moon Before Morning by W.S. MerwinThe Round House by Louise ErdrichEmbassytown by China MiévilleWelcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo JohnsonDisorientations by Jay Wright
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,674 books — 14,009 voters
Ka by John CrowleyThe Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey FordShadowbahn by Steve EricksonCinder by Susan Stewart
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2017
1,311 books — 3,826 voters

This Census-Taker by China MiévilleThe Last Days of New Paris by China MiévilleZero K by Don DeLilloThe Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Can't Wait Books of 2016
1,361 books — 6,398 voters
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoHomer and Langley by E.L. DoctorowBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyFour Freedoms by John Crowley
Best Historical Fiction
7,250 books — 25,373 voters

The Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochLolita by Vladimir NabokovSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Sot-Weed Factor by John BarthLittle, Big by John Crowley
The Best Use of Stylistic Language (best form/language)
561 books — 542 voters
The Collected Poems by Wallace StevensThe Moon Before Morning by W.S. MerwinShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareAfter by Jane HirshfieldComplete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
Best Poetry Books
2,960 books — 2,410 voters

Little, Big by John CrowleyThe Solitudes by John CrowleyMartin Dressler by Steven MillhauserThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Favorite Magical Realism Novels
1,295 books — 4,444 voters
The Translator by John CrowleyHomer & Langley by E.L. DoctorowThe Round House by Louise ErdrichThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,850 books — 21,770 voters

Little, Big by John CrowleyAda, or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovÆgypt by John CrowleyNeverwhere by Neil GaimanMartin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,735 voters
Little, Big by John CrowleyThe Book of the New Sun by Gene WolfePerdido Street Station by China MiévilleThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeArc d'X by Steve Erickson
Literary Fantasy
211 books — 93 voters

The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Select... by Baruch SpinozaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSophie's World by Jostein GaarderLetters from the Earth by Mark Twain
How To Help a Christian 'Out'
95 books — 53 voters
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony PowellThese are My Rivers by Lawrence FerlinghettiYertle the Turtle by Dr. SeussThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonJitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
There Ought to be a Band
2,435 books — 1,109 voters