Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round

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Middlemarch by George EliotWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelMiss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Large Experimental Books by Women
90 books — 71 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
267 books — 373 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
446 books — 584 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Style as Text
251 books — 132 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
518 books — 583 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 174 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinMy Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Beyond Civilization
66 books — 42 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Philosophical Fiction
365 books — 775 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
469 books — 828 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,239 books — 2,905 voters