2025 Rules & Eligibility

The 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards have two rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 04, 2025.

Opening Round: Nov 11 - 23

In the first round there are 20 books in each of the 15 categories, and members can vote for one book in each category.

Final Round: Nov 25 - 30

The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote!

2025 Eligibility

Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 13, 2024, and November 11, 2025, are eligible for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards. Books published between November 12, 2025, and November 10, 2026, will be eligible for the 2026 awards.

We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 20 books in each category. For the Audiobook category, nominations are based on the millions of titles added, rated, and reviewed both on Goodreads and Audible.

Opening round official nominees must have an average rating of 3.50 or higher at the time of launch. A book may be nominated in no more than one genre category, but can also be nominated in the Debut Novel and/or Audiobook categories. Only one book in a series may be nominated per category. An author may receive multiple nominations within a single category if they have more than one eligible series or more than one eligible stand-alone book. Learn more