Two days ago Goodreads announced the winners of their 17th annual Choice Awards Readers’ Favorite Books of 2025.

For the first time ever, I think, the winners do not include ANY books I read in this past year of 2025. Not one.

Some of the books I have read this year WERE included in the nominations under categories I read such as “107 Days” under Memoirs; “Never Flinch” under “Horror”; and “The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why it Failed” under History and Biography, but none of those won in their respective categories.

To be sure, there are some of the winners that I WANT to read and I’ll probably get to some of them at some point. It just wasn’t this year.

And there are some books under categories that I never read such as “Romance” or “Romantasy” because those are just not in my circle of interest.

But 7.5 million readers can’t be wrong can they? I honestly wish even more voting had taken place because we need all the readers out here that we can get. I mean, to steal the title from one of my favorite non-profits, Reading Is Fundamental.

So, congratulations to all the Goodreads Choice Awards Readers’ Favorite Books of 2025 winners.

Did any of the books you read this year make the list? If so, please drop the title or titles in the comments below.