Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Buddy Levy
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Garrett M. Graff
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Siddharth Kara
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Haley Cohen Gilliland
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Lydia Reeder
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak
Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs
Sisters in Science
Olivia Campbell
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell
Joyride: A Memoir
Susan Orlean
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin
Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir
Alyson Stoner
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