Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



Billy Bathgate by E.L. DoctorowThe Confessions of Nat Turner by William StyronNefertiti by Michelle Moran
ABOMINATIONS OF HISTORICAL FICTION!
62 books — 10 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
My 10 Favorite Westerns
93 books — 38 voters

Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Books Filmed by John Frankenheimer
22 books — 6 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard HughesInto the Wind by Mary Felts Van Nes
Books I Have Read With "Wind" in the Title
42 books — 12 voters

Emma by Jane AustenLolita by Vladimir NabokovCandy by Maxwell KentonSula by Toni Morrison
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
337 books — 47 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Imagine a Language (Stories Focusing on a Conlang)
18 books — 10 voters

Nerilka's Story by Anne McCaffreyThe Tuvela by James H. SchmitzThe Demon Breed by James H. SchmitzAgent of Vega & Other Stories by James H. SchmitzThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Girl Power Books
1,121 books — 1,041 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Victim Mindsets
2 books — 2 voters

Over the Hills and Far Away by Matthew DennisonThe Concubine by Norah LoftsSmall Bamboo by Tracy VoThe Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeMy Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
Best Portraits on Covers
175 books — 20 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Executioner's Song by Norman MailerA Death in Belmont by Sebastian JungerHell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
True Crime
720 books — 607 voters

The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian FlemingThunderball by Ian FlemingDiamonds Are Forever by Ian FlemingDoctor No by Ian FlemingMoonraker by Ian Fleming
Ridiculous Villains
12 books — 3 voters
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Shining by Stephen King'Salem's Lot by Stephen KingTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Books to get you in the Halloween Mood
657 books — 443 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Austentations
76 books — 37 voters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
I Hated the Protagonist
91 books — 13 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonHiking Phoenix by Cosmic Ray50 Hikes in the Maine Mountains by Cloe ChunnGuide to Arizona's Wilderness Areas by Jerry SieveAMC White Mountain Guide by Gene Daniell
Best Hiking Guides
145 books — 21 voters
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Your Must Read For 2018
195 books — 24 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellDivergent by Veronica RothThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Apocalypses and Dystopias
894 books — 651 voters
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardOdd Thomas by Dean KoontzOdd Hours by Dean KoontzTo Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent
books with almighty heroes
155 books — 61 voters

Kim by Rudyard KiplingThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttThe 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Books That You Never Pick Back Up After Putting Down
219 books — 105 voters
The Gardner Heist by Ulrich BoserArt du Moyen Age by Marie-Amelie CarlierThe Art of West African Kingdoms by Edward LifschitzThe Art of Rome and Her Empire by Heinz KahlerLiving with Art by Rita Gilbert
Best Art and Art History Books
769 books — 313 voters

August 1914 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSeven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
The Great War in Fiction and Non-Fiction
132 books — 98 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaOuter Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Books For Very Intelligent People
222 books — 134 voters

Lord of the Flies by William GoldingLooking for Alaska by John GreenLess Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Very Wicked Teenagers
13 books — 6 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best of Cormac McCarthy
18 books — 9 voters

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Destruction Literature
50 books — 36 voters
True Grit by Charles PortisThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Best Books to Allay Boredom
110 books — 30 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher'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 Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Top Read Books On Goodreads
266 books — 36 voters
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Sidhe
281 books — 100 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Classics That You Couldn't Finish
51 books — 40 voters
Casino Royale by Ian FlemingFrom Russia with Love by Ian FlemingGoldfinger by Ian FlemingLive and Let Die by Ian FlemingMoonraker by Ian Fleming
Tall female characters
45 books — 16 voters