Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction 2025
The Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction 2025 went to My Friends by Fredrik Backman, from 10 nominees in the final round. The winner and the final-round nominees are chosen by Goodreads members' votes. Goodreads calls this category Readers' Favorite Fiction. Of the 6 on ReadingRate, the easiest to read is My Friends by Fredrik Backman (difficulty 33/100, about 7.2 hours); the hardest is The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (76/100).
How book difficulty is measured
2025
- My Friends (Mina vänner) by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith — difficulty 33/100, about 7.2 hours
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy — finalist
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans — finalist
- The Names by Florence Knapp — finalist
- The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand — finalist
- These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean — finalist
- We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes — finalist
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong — finalist
- The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb — finalist
- The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan — finalist
Questions
- Who won the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction in 2025?
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman.
- Which books were nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction in 2025?
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, The Names by Florence Knapp, The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand, These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean, We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb and The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan.
- Which 2025 nominee is the easiest to read?
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman, with a difficulty of 33/100, the lowest of the 6 nominees on ReadingRate.
Winners from the prize’s own page, checked 2026-10-31.
Other prizes: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, International Booker Prize, National Book Award for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Prix Goncourt, Dublin Literary Award, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Costa Novel Award, Albert J. Beveridge Award. Every literary prize; every winner of 2026.