Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



The Shining by Stephen KingThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingJaws by Peter BenchleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Scariest Books Ever
145 books — 122 voters
Jassy by Norah LoftsThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Women in Horror
86 books — 20 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukBlack Sunday by Thomas Harris
Exciting Psychological Thrillers
45 books — 17 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The best book by Daphne du Maurier
8 books — 8 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Shining by Stephen King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen KingSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Best Books to Read for Halloween
1,171 books — 1,254 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Cold Chills
10 books — 7 voters

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Crossing by Cormac McCarthyCities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
10 books — 12 voters
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi PicoultThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Nope, nope, nope nope nope.
85 books — 15 voters

The Dillinger Days by John TolandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Life of John Wesley Hardin by John Wesley Hardin
Bandits, Robbers, Outlaws and Desperados
176 books — 43 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiA Night to Remember by Walter LordHotel California by Barney HoskynsShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books with a Song Name as the Title
753 books — 84 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksGray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
Best Popular Medicine Books on Goodreads
129 books — 39 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyEthan Frome by Edith Wharton
Best Novels With Sad Endings
35 books — 10 voters

Redwall by Brian JacquesLad by Albert Payson TerhuneWill's Red Coat by Tom RyanFollowing Atticus by Tom RyanThe Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Favorite Animal Stories
185 books — 66 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Books You Wish You Could Forget
432 books — 118 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Most Boring Book I Ever Read
24 books — 5 voters
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Most Boringest books ever
40 books — 19 voters

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
best books out of the 1000+ I have read
228 books — 34 voters
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelWolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
86 books — 184 voters

Life on the Mississippi by Mark TwainDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyOpportunity, Montana by Brad TyerA Great Aridness by William deBuys
Waterways, Watersheds, the Water System
136 books — 25 voters
Mother's Milk by Edward St. AubynBad News by Edward St. AubynNever Mind by Edward St. Aubyn
Child Abuse
24 books — 11 voters

The Shining by Stephen KingEverything's Eventual by Stephen King
Haunted Hotels
45 books — 18 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Bitchy Main Characters
108 books — 76 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiHiroshima by John HerseyThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiShōgun by James ClavellKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Popsugar 2020 - Set in Japan
111 books — 170 voters
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
Slightly sick books that I love!
9 books — 4 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Population Control
44 books — 10 voters
The Shining by Stephen King'Salem's Lot by Stephen KingThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Book Covers That Make You Want To Get Ready For Halloween
54 books — 14 voters

The Time Machine by H.G. WellsHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingDragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Time Travel Tales
129 books — 64 voters
Under the Dome by Stephen KingThe Stand by Stephen King
Rambling writers who belabor an issue
5 books — 3 voters

War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMiddlemarch by George EliotGreat Expectations by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Your Top 5 Favorite Books of all Time - Adult Fiction.
347 books — 125 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganYou Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
Best books on Japan
68 books — 45 voters