goodreads choice 2025 winners, the categories I track

not doing all fifteen categories, skipping the ones that aren't my lane (sorry YA, sorry audiobook). as of dec 2025

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My Friends - Fredrik Backman (Fiction)

(deserved). read this in january and it's stuck with me all year

Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical Fiction)

Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson (Mystery & Thriller)

Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry (Romance)

the shortlist was better honestly, this one's just fine

Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros (Romantasy)

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V.E. Schwab (Fantasy)

The Compound - Aisling Rawle (Science Fiction)

this one surprised me. reality-show dystopia, and it actually earns the ending, most books in this lane don't

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix (Horror)

Alchemised - SenLinYu (Debut Novel)

started life as fanfiction. if you know you know

Everything Is Tuberculosis - John Green (Nonfiction)

The House of My Mother - Shari Franke (Memoir & Autobiography)

How to Kill a Witch - Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell (History & Biography)

finally got around to adding this category, it took me a while to actually read it

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