Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dead in 2021: The Authors We Lost
609 books — 49 voters
The Bluejacket's Manual by U.S. Department of the Navy
Knots
10 books — 4 voters

The Pearl by John SteinbeckAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Books Set in Mexico
474 books — 186 voters
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian FlemingThe Man With the Golden Gun by Ian FlemingThe Spy Who Loved Me by Ian FlemingFor Your Eyes Only by Ian FlemingYou Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
I have read all his books
185 books — 14 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Quiet girl meets tortured hero
110 books — 166 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,499 books — 2,693 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Fictitious Japan
136 books — 35 voters
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Bean Trees by Barbara KingsolverOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Native American Fiction
837 books — 638 voters

The Shining by Stephen King
Ghost Stories and Haunted Tales
100 books — 28 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonEragon by Christopher PaoliniHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
[ATY 2022] Here Be Dragons
241 books — 127 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Addictive Domestic Psychological Suspense
19 books — 11 voters
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
mentally unstable women/girls
44 books — 18 voters

Midsummer Century by James Blish
Birds as Characters in Fiction
83 books — 25 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
If I could forget about this book and read it again
462 books — 235 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessA Great Aridness by William deBuysThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
books to buy 2021
51 books — 5 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Books I Became So Obsessed With I Stopped Everything Else in My Life to Finish.
12,078 books — 9,787 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Road by Cormac McCarthy1984 by George Orwell
Reddit List of Intense Books You Couldn't Finish
108 books — 16 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Cheer Up, Things Ain't That Bad
99 books — 173 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersSolaris by Stanisław Lem
If you liked Twin Peaks...
42 books — 16 voters
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Autumn Leaves and Pumpkin Seeds
37 books — 9 voters

Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Houses of Worship
368 books — 25 voters
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Halloween Inspiration
52 books — 13 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
First Person Fantasy Sci Fi
214 books — 112 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
I read it because my friends did!
125 books — 13 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Fiction Set in 1920s
160 books — 93 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
More books that are too sad and depressing!
34 books — 9 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareOthello by William Shakespeare
The Most Translated Books of the World
115 books — 8 voters
The Shipping News by Annie ProulxTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfJaws by Peter BenchleyGood Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-DaltonThe Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Novels Set on Cold Weather Islands
316 books — 67 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Chicken Books
149 books — 34 voters
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Books for Smart People
716 books — 143 voters