Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsBarbarian Days by William Finnegan
Choose something different
133 books — 14 voters
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceEast of Eden by John SteinbeckGravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Cause too much stress!
20 books — 4 voters

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanDune by Frank HerbertHoly Bible by Anonymous
Prophecies
118 books — 64 voters
Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniDivergent by Veronica RothGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Everyone Cried but Me!
28 books — 5 voters

Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
New Mexico Authors
38 books — 10 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareLord of the Flies by William GoldingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Books We Were Forced to Read in High School
107 books — 18 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Little King December by Axel HackeA Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
Books For Minimalists
18 books — 9 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Boarding School
55 books — 7 voters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Books I totally loved reading
499 books — 64 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClarePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenDivergent by Veronica RothThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Male characters we DESPERATELY wish were real!
1,483 books — 1,179 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerJassy by Norah Lofts
Books where protagonist is in over their head
140 books — 15 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. RowlingIvanhoe by Walter Scott
It's All About the Swords!
364 books — 168 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHoles by Louis SacharTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Middle Grade Reads
761 books — 598 voters
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Most Amusing Books Ever
35 books — 17 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Depraved, perverse and subversive fiction and non-fiction
366 books — 178 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Books That Leave An Impact
423 books — 142 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLord of the Flies by William GoldingHoles by Louis SacharWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Those Books That Stick In Your Mind Over The Years
256 books — 30 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Fall of Hyperion by Dan SimmonsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsJassy by Norah LoftsThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
WORST Book Cover Art
506 books — 230 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Black Echo by Michael ConnellyCanada by Richard FordThe Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Mysteries For Deep Thinkers
324 books — 192 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyMy Ántonia by Willa CatherEverybody's Fool by Richard RussoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
2019: What the Over-50s Are Reading
821 books — 70 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Funniest Books of All Time
296 books — 192 voters
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-ZinnSiddhartha by Hermann HessePeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat HanhAlcoholics Anonymous by Alcoholics Anonymous
Not your average self help book
244 books — 245 voters

Jassy by Norah LoftsPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Unconventional Novels
54 books — 27 voters
My Ántonia by Willa CatherDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherO Pioneers! by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa CatherDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Best of Willa Cather
94 books — 19 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainSiddhartha by Hermann HesseJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Best Bildungsroman book
363 books — 321 voters
Bad News by Edward St. AubynRosemary's Baby by Ira LevinBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteA Time to Be Born by Dawn PowellA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Books set in NYC
68 books — 16 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Shining by Stephen King
Best Mentally Ill Characters
268 books — 264 voters
On the Road by Jack Kerouac1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Best Books for the Modern Day Hippie, Bohemian, Free Spirit
430 books — 332 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerRunaway by Alice Munro
Introverted, Timid Female Lead
82 books — 18 voters
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
All About Edgar Allan Poe
137 books — 47 voters