Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

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



Lord of the Flies by William GoldingA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Disturbingly Enticing
498 books — 198 voters
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Best of Thomas Hardy
71 books — 67 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDeath in Summer by William Trevor
Emotionally Devastating
54 books — 20 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brownkarlmarx. com by Susan CollAngels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Who Let These People Write a Book?
763 books — 970 voters

Angels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Abandoned Books
1,474 books — 1,466 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Books I Kind of Wanted to Snuggle After Reading
978 books — 1,229 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierAtonement by Ian McEwanLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,111 books — 1,136 voters
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. YeatsThe Collected Poems by Sylvia PlathThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Iliad by HomerA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Best Poetry Books
2,972 books — 2,414 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryPlainsong by Kent HarufEventide by Kent HarufThese Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Homesteader's Favorite Fiction
25 books — 10 voters
Plainsong by Kent HarufThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Stand by Stephen KingNothing Daunted by Dorothy WickendenThe Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
Colorado
410 books — 147 voters

Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
Best Gay Fiction
2,659 books — 3,855 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainMy Ántonia by Willa CatherPlainsong by Kent Haruf’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Novels About Small-Town Life
283 books — 129 voters

Ironweed by William KennedyThe Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Meryl Streep Books
39 books — 8 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Memoirs of Madness
295 books — 375 voters

City of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Best Angel Books
287 books — 590 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëIvanhoe by Walter Scott
Books I Loved in High School
205 books — 28 voters

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Historical Fiction
7,308 books — 25,502 voters
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Need to Publish Anew in Hardcover
37 books — 17 voters

The Shining by Stephen KingLancelot by Walker PercyIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Best Books 1977
196 books — 62 voters
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinThe Road by Cormac McCarthyIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteJaws by Peter BenchleyLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books That Gave Me Nightmares
268 books — 473 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Shining by Stephen KingKilling Floor by Lee ChildOdd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Bestselling Modern Novelists
28 books — 14 voters
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Explaining the Mind
151 books — 54 voters

The Incurable Wound by Berton Roueché
History of disease
165 books — 78 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareDivergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothTwilight by Stephenie MeyerCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Cover Lust
816 books — 534 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,316 books — 24,548 voters
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchonkarlmarx. com by Susan Coll
It made me Mad I tell you, Quite Mad!!!
130 books — 14 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauHot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. FriedmanThe End of Nature by Bill McKibbenThe Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
Best Environmental Books
1,068 books — 1,198 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Books I read Due to Doing their Trivia questions
43 books — 12 voters

Winter Danger by William O. SteeleChildhood's End by Arthur C. ClarkeCity by Clifford D. Simak
The First Novel You Remember Reading
16 books — 9 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Magical Creatures
1,571 books — 847 voters