Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Chris Gager (1483 Lists)



The Bean Trees by Barbara KingsolverJassy by Norah LoftsHotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Fall reads
29 books — 6 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Books Related to Geometric Shapes
352 books — 27 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Books with a Nameless Protagonist
85 books — 35 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. Valente
Books With the Words "Boy" and/or "Girl" in the Title
316 books — 12 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank HerbertThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George Orwell
Science Fiction and Fantasy Must Reads
3,935 books — 4,937 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMaisie Dobbs by Jacqueline WinspearThe Trespasser by Tana French
[ATY 2022] Female Detective/Police Officer
254 books — 108 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingLooking for Alaska by John GreenStoner by John WilliamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
[ATY 2022] Academia or Teacher-Impacted
223 books — 104 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysHawaii by James A. MichenerA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulThe Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Books set in the Tropical Regions of the World
225 books — 33 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyA Separate Peace by John Knowles
Dark Academia Reading List - Signum University Pt. 1
100 books — 19 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJassy by Norah LoftsThe Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Autumnal Books To Read On A Chilly Day
89 books — 12 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckRebecca by Daphne du MaurierWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Odyssey by Homer
Books that have been made into films from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list
499 books — 22 voters
A Separate Peace by John KnowlesWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
Don’t Tell Me What I Can And Cannot Read; I’m An Adult!,
119 books — 11 voters

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John ClelandOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Best Books Involving Sexwork (Fiction and Nonfiction)
401 books — 193 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
hot sad girl books
54 books — 23 voters

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper LeeJassy by Norah LoftsMagister Ludi by Hermann HesseSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Must Read Books With Deep Meaning That Make You Think
27 books — 7 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHoles by Louis SacharHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Summer Reading for SHS
26 books — 10 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyFight Club by Chuck PalahniukRebecca by Daphne du MaurierOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyEye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Brilliant Psychological Thrillers
206 books — 135 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Martian by Andy WeirThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George Orwell
Books for the INTJ
529 books — 213 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyBarabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Fiction with Jesus as a Character
185 books — 166 voters
Following Atticus by Tom RyanWill's Red Coat by Tom Ryan
Best pets and animal sidekicks
74 books — 11 voters

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Best Books about the American Founding Fathers (fiction and nonfiction)
130 books — 36 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Martian by Andy WeirHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Fun (Not Too Stressful) Fiction
187 books — 12 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerThe Wild Palms by William FaulknerThe Reivers by William FaulknerLight in August by William Faulkner
William Faulkner's Novels!
23 books — 6 voters
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Best authoritarian boks
46 books — 7 voters

The Tempest by William ShakespeareThe Taming of the Shrew by William ShakespeareA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Adult books with yellow covers
171 books — 15 voters
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Autumn Mood
34 books — 8 voters

Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Nuns in Fiction
218 books — 44 voters
Cimarron by Edna Ferber
Women Writers Banned by the Nazi Regime
76 books — 5 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayThe Sea Wolf by Jack London
Books Banned by Nazis
102 books — 29 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Banned Books 2007-2008
85 books — 202 voters